Sophia Bush celebrated her first pride month since coming out as queer, as she shared a heartfelt message to her Instagram on Sunday.
The actress, 41, posted a quote on her Stories that read, ‘You are perfect. No matter how long it might take, you’ll find your people. And they will help you find more and more of yourself. It’s worth it. You’re worth it.’
The One Tree Hill star wrote the line underneath another reposted quote, from account We the Urban, which said, ‘Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves.’
She also shared a barefaced selfie in a bathrobe adding the LGBTQ pride flag emoji and a heart sign.
Bush publicly came out in April, and announced she was in love with athlete Ashlyn Harris, 38, and that her former partners have always known she was into women.
Sophia Bush, 41, celebrated her first pride month since coming out as queer, as she shared a heartfelt message to her Instagram on Sunday
Pride Month began on Saturday and celebrates the LGBTQ community in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.
Bush’s message comes a week after she firmly shut down rumors that she is engaged to her girlfriend.
She had posted a romantic snap with Ashlyn from Paris in which she slipped one arm under her ladylove’s jacket.
Because her left hand was hidden from view, some social media users began speculating that she was concealing a ring.
However Sophia put paid to the conjecture with a follow-up picture, holding up her left hand to assure the public her fourth finger was bare.
‘I hear the internet is being wild? Y’all,’ she wrote with crying laughing and coffin emojis. ‘I have no “news” for you. But wouldn’t you put your hands all up in her jacket if you could?? (To be clear you can’t because boundaries, but I’ll continue to do it for you because I’m just generous like that.)’
When she posted the original loved-up Paris snapshot with Ashlyn, Sophia gushed: ‘I just wanna squeeeeeeeeeze her.’
She added: ‘I get that it’s new for y’all to see me so happy and so embodied. It’s new for me too. How lucky am I,’ closing the message with a teary-eyed emoji.
She posted a quote that read, ‘You are perfect. No matter how long it might take, you’ll find your people. And they will help you find more and more of yourself. It’s worth it. You’re worth it’
Bush came out in April, and announced she was in love with athlete Ashlyn Harris, 38, and that her former partners have always known she was into women; The duo pictured in April
Her message comes a week after she firmly shut down rumors that she is engaged to her girlfriend, writing ‘I have no “news” for you’
Rumors started after the actress had posted a romantic snap with Ashlyn from Paris in which she slipped one arm under her ladylove’s jacket
Sophia and Ashlyn made their red carpet debut in April at the star-studded White House Correspondents Dinner hosted by Colin Jost
Ashlyn fired up her own Insta Stories and posted a selfie in which Sophia planted a kiss on her cheek as they toasted with white wine.
Sophia and Ashlyn made their red carpet debut in April, at the star-studded White House Correspondents Dinner hosted by Colin Jost.
Shortly beforehand, Sophia had announced their relationship by penning an essay in Glamour magazine in which she also came out as ‘queer.’
She wrote that she and Ashlyn first became acquainted in 2019 but did not become a couple until October 2023 – after their respective marriages fell apart.
Sophia filed for divorce from her husband of 13 months Grant Hughes in August 2023, while Ashlyn filed for divorce from her wife Ali Krieger that September.
In her coming out essay, Sophia – who was previously married to her One Tree Hill co-star Chad Michael Murray – revealed that multiple men she was involved with in the past were aware that she was also attracted to women.
She took aim at social media users ‘who said I’d left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women – my partners have known what I’m into for as long as I have (so that’s not it, y’all, sorry!).’
When romance rumors started swirling about her and Ashlyn, Sophia was accused of being a ‘home-wrecker,’ inasmuch as Ashlyn shares two children with her ex-wife.
Sophia revealed that she and Ashlyn became a couple in October 2023, two months after she filed for divorce from Grant Hughes, whom she is pictured with in 2022
Ashlyn shares two children with her former wife Ali Krieger (left), whom she filed for divorce from in September 2023; They are pictured that May
Sophia firmly denied that she broke up Ashlyn’s marriage, writing that she found herself on the business end of ‘blatant lies and violent threats’ over the conjecture.
‘People looking in from the outside weren’t privy to just how much time it took, how many painful conversations were had,’ she insisted.
‘A lot of effort was made to be graceful with other people’s processing, their time and obligations, and their feelings,’ added the Chicago P.D. actress.
Along with Ashlyn and her husbands, Sophia has also previously dated her co-stars Jon Foster, James Lafferty, Austin Nichols and Jesse Lee Soffer.
