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Iconic '00s actress Sophia Bush has gotten delightfully candid about how her relationship with soccer star, Ashlyn Harris, began.
For an episode of her Work in Progress podcast, the One Tree Hill actress spoke about what was running through her mind when she asked out Harris, who she reportedly started dating in October 2023, two months after she filed for divorce and wiped her husband from Instagram.
"Our friends were trying to set her up with someone, and I was like, 'If she's ready to date, she's going on a date with me.' Like, sorry. Uh-uh," joked Bush with her guest Nico Tortorella.
"Yeah. Like, no f***ing way. And people were, like, 'Wait, what?'"
Bush's friend passed on the actress' interest in a date with Harris to the former soccer player.
"She even said to me, 'Hold the phone. I always thought you were straight?!' And I was like, 'I always thought you were happy. But, like, we're both single. What are we doing?'" recalled the 42-year-old.
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris. Image: Instagram/ashlynharris24.