Sophia Bush Wants to Squash Cheating Rumors About Start of Relationship With Ashlyn Harris

Sophia Bush sat down with host Alex Cooper on the megapopular podcast Call Her Daddy this week to clear up misconceptions about her relationship timeline with soccer star Ashlyn Harris, denying longstanding rumors that their connection began with cheating. Online sapphics, you should be seated. During the episode, posted to YouTube on Wednesday, the One Tree Hill alum opened up about all manner of topics, including the abuse she says she faced during her time on the 2000s teen drama, past marriages, and her relationship with retired women’s soccer champion Ashlyn Harris, to whom she is now lovingly married. When online sapphics sleuths suspected that Bush and Harris were dating in 2023, despite having significant others at the time, rumors of infidelity swirled around the internet and cheating accusations filled the comments sections of their posts. “The internet had a lot to say,” Cooper said of that period on the podcast. Here is the timeline of their respective breakups and how the couple got together, as laid out by Bush in the interview with Cooper.When did Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush meet? Though Bush officially confirmed their relationship in a cover story with Glamour magazine in 2024, the pair has known each other for quite some time, having been Instagram mutuals from 2015 onward. They didn’t meet in person until a group luncheon for artists and activists in 2019, which was hosted by some of Harris’ teammates. But sparks didn’t fly, Bush said, until after both parties had filed for divorce from their then-spouses, Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, respectively. When did Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris separate from their former partners?Bush and Hughes separated on June 27, 2023, a little over a month after their first wedding anniversary, and filed for divorce in August 2023. “You keep pretending it's okay even when you’re not sleeping in the same bed, even when you’re living on separate floors of your house, even when your parents know you