Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photographs for Kimball Stroud & Associates
Sophia Bush and girlfriend Ashlyn Harris acquired cozy at an afterparty for the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner, the place they made their purple 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 elaborations. 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 purple carpet debut Saturday evening, although earlier that day they’d walked the purple 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 Photographs
“Sophia and Ashlyn insist they have been simply pals, however by all accounts, it was instantaneous chemistry,” a supply advised Us Weekly shortly after Harris and Bush’s first date. “They love being collectively. They love sports activities and wish to do good on the planet.”
Bush publicly got here out as queer by way of 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 — moderately than having taken over a 12 months to do essentially the most soul-crushing work of my life?” Bush wrote. “Slightly than realizing I needed to be essentially the most weak I’ve ever been, on a public stage, regardless of being terrified to my core? It feels brutal. Simply because I didn’t wish 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, and so they’ve been quietly constructing their relationship. A supply completely advised Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to start out over” in October 2023, one month after they started relationship. […]
She went on to substantiate that she doesn’t determine as straight. “As I got here into myself, I already felt it was my dwelling. I believe I’ve at all times identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” Bush shared. “Proper now I believe the phrase that finest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, really. And that feels fairly nice.”
Bush added that she has “skilled a lot security, respect, and love within the queer group” 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 once we’re seeing essentially the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ group in trendy historical past,” she continued. “There have been greater than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ payments proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so for that motive I wish 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 suppose 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.”