Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush Tasos Katopodis/Getty Pictures for Kimball Stroud & Associates
Sophia Bush and girlfriend Ashlyn Harris bought cozy at an afterparty for the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner, the place they made their pink carpet debut as a pair.
Bush and Harris have been photographed collectively on the WHCD afterparty on Saturday, April 27, which was hosted by Amazon MGM Studios and held on the residence of the Swiss Ambassador, Jacques Pitteloud, in Washington, D.C.
The pair wore black Harbison Studio outfits that complemented one another with matching gold gildings. They cuddled up shut for photographs and Bush laughed because the soccer participant whispered one thing in her ear in a single snap.
The couple made their pink carpet debut Saturday evening, although earlier that day they’d walked the pink carpet individually for the thirty first annual White Home Correspondents’ Backyard Brunch.
The previous U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff goalkeeper and One Tree Hill alum have been relationship since fall 2023, shortly after the 2 filed for divorce from their respective spouses: Ali Krieger and Grant Hughes.
Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush Paul Morigi/Getty Pictures
“Sophia and Ashlyn insist they have been simply associates, however by all accounts, it was immediate chemistry,” a supply advised Us Weekly shortly after Harris and Bush’s first date. “They love being collectively. They love sports activities and need to do good on the earth.”
Bush publicly got here out as queer through a self-written Glamour cowl story printed on Thursday, April 25, the place she broke her silence on her sexuality. Within the essay, she additionally denied claims that she cheated on Hughes earlier than their divorce.
“The concept I left my marriage based mostly on some hysterical rendezvous — that, to be crystal-clear, by no means occurred — slightly than having taken over a 12 months to do essentially the most soul-crushing work of my life?” Bush wrote. “Moderately than realizing I needed to be essentially the most susceptible I’ve ever been, on a public stage, regardless of being terrified to my core? It feels brutal. Simply because I didn’t need to course of my realizations in actual time on social media and spell them out for the world doesn’t imply the journey wasn’t lengthy and considerate and exhaustive.”
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris’ friendship turned romantic on the heels of their respective divorces from Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, they usually’ve been quietly constructing their relationship. A supply solely advised Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to begin over” in October 2023, one month after they started relationship. […]
She went on to verify that she doesn’t establish as straight. “As I got here into myself, I already felt it was my house. I feel I’ve at all times identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” Bush shared. “Proper now I feel the phrase that greatest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, truly. And that feels fairly nice.”
Bush added that she has “skilled a lot security, respect, and love within the queer neighborhood” as each an ally and a member, however famous that she “form of hate[s] the notion of getting to return out” within the 12 months 2024.
“However I’m deeply conscious that we’re having this dialog in a 12 months after we’re seeing essentially the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in fashionable historical past,” she continued. “There have been greater than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ payments proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so for that motive I need to give the act of popping out the respect and honor it deserves.”
She defined: “I lastly really feel like I can breathe. I don’t assume I can clarify how profound that’s. I really feel like I used to be carrying a weighted vest for who is aware of how lengthy. I hadn’t realized how heavy it was till I lastly simply put it down.”
