Why Sophia Bush is Done Trying to Prove She and Ashlyn Harris Didn’t Have an Affair
Sophia Bush is shedding light on a challenging moment in her career.
Nearly a decade after her shocking exit from Chicago P.D. in 2017, Bush—who played Detective Erin Lindsay on the NBC police procedural drama for four seasons—alleged in her new memoir And I Will Tell You Mine that she left the show after experiencing ongoing abuse from one of her colleagues.
“An inappropriate comment. A raised voice. A hair pull,” she wrote in the book. “A held breath. A clenched jaw. A clenched fist. Fist connecting with flesh. And then, worse. Much worse.”
According to Bush, while the alleged abuse began during a New York City press run ahead of the show’s premiere, it quickly became clear the behavior was becoming a troubling new normal.
“Things done when there were fewer people in the room, but the rooms were never empty. Averted eyes, silenced protests, and whispers when something went wrong,” she wrote. “Knowing our set was the one talked about on all the others. Bracing for conflict, for screaming, for humiliation when something, anything, triggered outsized rage.”
