Grant Hughes and Sophia Bush divorced in August 2023, thirteen months after their Oklahoma wedding. Sophia Bush was on the verge of developing cold feet at the altar.
The One Tree Hill star, 41, revealed in an essay for the April 2024 cover of Glamour that she almost decided against her wedding to entrepreneur Grant Hughes in Oklahoma in June 2022, two months before their extravagant ceremony.
“I came perilously close to canceling my wedding in April 2022.” “Rather than attempting to flee, I resolved to be an even better model wife,” she composed.
Following her spouse’s Instagram tribute to their union on their first wedding anniversary, Bush experienced “increasing pressure from strangers online” to reciprocate the sentiment. She remembered selecting an image of the couple fleeing from the camera with the caption “a nice story” regarding the subjects of the photograph. “Except the fact that it was a story.” I typed something exuberant in my happiness while attempting to silence the familiar voice in my consciousness. Make it appear effortless. Make it appear flawless. Perhaps, if your smile is sufficiently reflective, no one will notice that you have damaged teeth up close. “However, occasionally broken is simply broken,” the Chicago Police Department stated. The actress proceeded. Following the post-attack, she vomited in the restroom.
Bush hypothesized, during the six months of fertility testing, that she “absolutely knew in her heart” that she had erred.
It was not until she immersed herself in the production of 2:22 A Ghost Story on the West End that she came to terms with the physical consequences of the stress. Everyone in the company except her recovered rapidly when half of them became unwell. She recalled being admitted to the hospital for several nights and being administered “infinite quantities of fluids.”
“My body was screaming, and I was compelled to listen,” Bush wrote. “I found it difficult to accept.” I was a member of a group. However, I was relieved of my symptoms at home, where my physicians (and, in all honesty, my health insurance) could better assess the situation. Having spent my time in London, I departed. The same applied to my marriage. “Everything collapsed at once,” PEOPLE reported in August 2023, two weeks after Bush left the London play, regarding her divorce petition from Hughes.
“During COVID, Sophia and Grant bonded over their shared passion for community service,” a source close to the couple told PEOPLE at the time. “They had been friends for ten years.” “They maintain good friends and continue to manage their nonprofit organization together.” Bush is presently involved in a romantic relationship with Ashlyn Harris, a former American soccer player who, like Ali Krieger, filed for divorce from her ex-wife in September 2023. The actress devoted the majority of her Glamour essay to her coming out, stating that she self-identifies as “queer.”
“I finally feel like I can breathe. I don’t think I can explain how profound that is. I feel like I was wearing a weighted vest for who knows how long. I hadn’t realized how heavy it was until I finally just put it down,” according to her. “This might sound crazy—but I think other people in trauma recovery will get it—I am taking deep breaths again. I can feel my legs and feet. I can feel my feet in my shoes right now. It makes me want to cry and laugh at the same time.”