Sophia Bush has been married three times, but it’s her most recent union that she kept hidden from the world for over a year. The One Tree Hill star is married to former professional soccer player Ashlyn Harris, and the couple quietly tied the knot in the summer of 2025 before revealing the news in September 2026.
The revelation came through Bush’s new memoir, And I Will Tell You Mine: Notes from a Life in Progress, where she opens up about finding love again after two very public divorces. For a woman who spent decades living under intense media scrutiny, the decision to marry in secret makes perfect sense.
Who Is Ashlyn Harris?
Ashlyn Harris is a retired American soccer goalkeeper and two-time FIFA World Cup champion with the U.S. Women’s National Team . Born in 1985, Harris built a legendary career on the pitch before retiring and transitioning into documentary filmmaking.
She was previously married to fellow soccer star Ali Krieger, with whom she shares two adopted children: daughter Sloane and son Ocean . Harris filed for divorce from Krieger in September 2023 after nearly four years of marriage, and the divorce was finalized in January 2025 .
In her 2026 documentary Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story, Harris spoke candidly about the end of her marriage to Krieger. “I don’t resent or regret anything about the life that I built with her; it just wasn’t for me,” she told Us Weekly . “I had to make a really hard decision. I know I hurt her in that process” .
How Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris Met
The couple first became acquainted in 2019 when they were both in relationships with other people. They reconnected and began dating in October 2023, following their respective separations .
Bush publicly confirmed their relationship in a 2024 Glamour cover story, where she also came out as queer. She wrote that her past male partners had been aware of her attraction to women, and that her connection with Harris developed after both of their marriages had ended .
Harris later described her feelings for Bush in deeply personal terms: “She is home. She is a feeling that I’ve been yearning and longing for for so long. I just feel my shoulders relax. I move differently” .
The Secret Wedding
In the summer of 2025, Bush and Harris married in an intimate ceremony in upstate New York . The guest list was tiny, consisting primarily of Harris’s children, Sloane and Ocean, to whom Bush is now a stepmother .
The details were deeply personal. Bush found a black velvet dress with gold flecks in her basement for the occasion. Her best friend and producing partner, Nia Batts, got ordained online to perform the ceremony. Harris wore a tuxedo . The children picked flowers from the property, and the family roasted marshmallows together on the wedding night .
“It was so precious, and zero pressure,” Bush recalled. “I will never forget it, and I think wedding days sometimes aren’t like that” .
Why They Kept It Secret
For Bush, the decision to keep the wedding private was about reclaiming something for herself. After two previous marriages—to One Tree Hill co-star Chad Michael Murray from 2005 to 2006, and to entrepreneur Grant Hughes from 2022 to 2023—she wanted this chapter to belong to her and Harris alone .
“When you get to this stage in your life, you begin to unpack what’s yours and what’s always sort of been for everyone else,” Bush told Vogue .
The couple spent the months after the wedding traveling the country to tell friends and family in person. Bush eventually decided to go public because she was tired of calling Harris her “partner” in public. “You’re not my partner, you know? You’re my wife,” she recalled saying to Harris. “And it feels so amazing to say that” .
A Blended Family
Bush has embraced her role as a stepmother to Harris’s two children. Harris has spoken about their co-parenting dynamic with Krieger, emphasizing respect and prioritizing the kids.
“She’s the mother of my children,” Harris said of Krieger. “I respect her as a mom, I respect her as a player, I respect what she’s done for the game. I don’t ever want to speak poorly about the mother of my children” .
Harris has also described their approach to raising the children after the divorce. “We always make sure we tell our children they get the best of two worlds,” she said. “It’s not this or that. Everything that the kids get to do, they get to do it twice” .
What’s Next for the Couple
Bush’s memoir, And I Will Tell You Mine: Notes from a Life in Progress, was published on October 27, 2026 . The book details not just her marriage to Harris but her broader journey through love, loss, and self-discovery.
Harris’s documentary, Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story, premiered in June 2026 and offers an intimate look at her life, career, and relationship with Bush .
For Bush, the marriage represents something she wasn’t sure she’d ever find. In her memoir, she writes that even if she and Harris grew apart in ten years, she would “rather get divorced all over again—and do it with the love and tenderness I’d always thought was the goal in the first place—than miss my chance at being married to her at all” .
Sophia Bush’s wife is Ashlyn Harris. And for both of them, the quiet ceremony in upstate New York was exactly the beginning they needed.
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