“One Tree Hill” and “Chicago P.D.” actress Sophia Bush comes out as queer: ‘Can’t say it without smiling’

Via EW.com:

One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D. actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer, nine months after filing for divorce from husband Grant Hughes.

“I sort of hate the notion of having to come out in 2024. But I’m deeply aware that we are having this conversation in a year when we’re seeing the most aggressive attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community in modern history,” Bush wrote in a new Glamour cover story, referencing hundreds of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills proposed in states around the country across the past two years.

She continued, “So, for that reason, I want to give the act of coming out the respect and honor it deserves. I’ve experienced so much safety, respect, and love in the queer community, as an ally all of my life, that, as I came into myself, I already felt it was my home. I think I’ve always known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Right now I think the word that best defines it is queer. I can’t say it without smiling, actually. And that feels pretty great.”

Bush wrote that the decision complicated her union with Hughes, enough so that, in April 2022, she considered “calling off” their wedding that was set for June of that year.

“Fans and friends were telling me how exciting this milestone was and how happy I looked. I felt nothing,” she admitted. “Things hadn’t been easy at home, but everyone says marriage is hard, right?”