Sophia Bush took Ashlyn Harris with out be conscious when she made the important switch to kick off their romance.

The One Tree Hill alum says she asked the soccer star out after studying that their mutual pals had been making an strive to location the athlete up with every other person.

“I modified into as soon as love, 'If she's ready to this point, she's happening a date with me,'” Sophia said on the July 17 episode of her Work in Progress podcast. “Love, sorry, uh uh. Love, no f–king manner.”

The Chicago P.D. star also revealed Ashlyn's response to being asked out. “She modified into as soon as love, 'Withhold the cell phone, I always thought you had been straight,'” Sophia said. “And I modified into as soon as love, 'I always thought you had been completely delighted. But we're both f–king single, what are we doing?'”

The 42-365 days-stale continued, “We had been f–king cackling attributable to I modified into as soon as love, 'Yeah. dude, I never regarded at you as an option,' and he or she modified into as soon as love, 'I never regarded at you as an option.'”

Sophia modified into as soon as first publicly linked to the 38-365 days-stale final October, two months after the actress filed for divorce from entrepreneur Grant Hughes after 13 months of marriage. As for Ashlyn, she filed for divorce from fellow soccer star Ali Krieger, with whom she shares two youngsters, after almost four years of marriage in September 2023.

In April, Sophia came out publicly as distinctive and revealed she and Ashlyn began courting after she asked the athlete “to include a non-friend-neighborhood hold.”

“And that meal modified into as soon as four and a half hours long,” she wrote in a Glamour essay, “and truly one in all the most surreal experiences of my existence to this point.”

The 2 include since equipped fans glimpses of their relationship on social media.

“Final 365 days I got free,” Sophia wrote in a comment on Ashlyn's birthday tribute to her on Instagram July 8. “This 365 days I discovered the very easiest love in the very most surprising hiss.”

She continued, “I will also just never receive over the reward of it. Thank you for placing me assist collectively. For making my 2d birthday even better than my first. And for reminding me what the sound of my unbridled laughter sounds love. You are magic. You are my easiest point to.”