Sophia Bush reflected on her decision to share insight into her private life in a revealing Glamour cover story about her divorce and coming out as queer. In her essay, Bush revealed what led to her split from Grant Hughes and confirmed her relationship with Ashlyn Harris. The 'One Tree Hill' alum shared that by changing the course of her life and making the difficult decision to divorce Hughes and come out as queer, she found true happiness.
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00:00 Sophia Bush is reflecting on her decision to share insight into her private life
00:04 in a revealing glamour cover story about her divorce and coming out as queer.
00:08 In her essay, Bush revealed what led to her split from Grant Hughes
00:14 and confirmed her relationship with Ashlyn Harris.
00:16 The One Tree Hill alum shared that by changing the course of her life
00:20 and making the difficult decision to divorce Hughes and come out as queer,
00:23 she found true happiness.
00:25 In her essay, she noted that she felt like this year,
00:28 turning 41, felt like her very first birthday.
00:31 Days after the essay was published,
00:32 Bush explained what she meant with her birthday realization in an Instagram post.
00:36 "I felt like last summer I had my very first birthday,
00:39 my own. And last summer Maggie Smith's words helped me begin to understand why.
00:44 From afar, she helped me put myself back together."
00:47 Bush included a poem from the You Could Make This Place Beautiful author,
00:50 which explained Bush's own emotions.
00:52 "How I picture it, we are all nesting dolls,
00:54 carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside.
00:57 We carry the past inside us.
00:59 We take ourselves, all of ourselves, wherever we go.
01:02 Inside 40-something me is the woman I was in my 30s,
01:05 the woman I was in my 20s, the teenager I was, the child I was.
01:09 I still carry these versions of myself.
01:11 It's a kind of reincarnation without death.
01:14 All these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves."
01:17 Looking back at why it was important to shed light on her personal life,
01:21 the actress wrote, "This week I got to share my own words
01:24 that I wrote down from the bottom of my ever-evolving heart."
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