Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris.
Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Human Rights CampaignAshlyn Harris he thinks about his relationship with the old one Ali Krieger.
The former USWNT star, 39, spoke about the end of the former couple’s relationship and how “difficult” the process was for her during an appearance on the Monday, November 25, episode of the “Naked Sports With Cari Champion” podcast, where she said the couple “were not all part” of the marriage. theirs.
“I just felt like I wasn’t a priority,” Harris explained. “I didn’t feel that connection, either emotionally or physically. It was soccer, work, kids, and then somewhere down the line it was like, ‘Okay, what about me?'”
Noting that he is a “sensitive” person, Harris went on to say that he “can give so much until you have nothing left,” adding that he was “very good at isolating himself” because of his “ability to stay. and suffering” and his “ability to serve other people” before him, which he thinks “honestly” kept him “in that marriage for a long time.”
Harris said he “started trying all these things” — like proposing an open marriage, which he says “isn’t even him” — to try to salvage their union.
“I felt ashamed and I felt so ashamed that I didn’t know how to tell people that, like, , my wife doesn’t want to touch me or she doesn’t want to be close or she doesn’t want this. ,” Harris agreed, prompting the host Cari Champion asking if Krieger, 40, “disagrees” with his “assessment” of their relationship.
“No, he can’t say that because we weren’t part of our marriage,” she said. “So that’s…I mean, the facts are just the facts. It is what it is.”
Us Weekly contacted Krieger’s team for comment.
Harris and Krieger, who first met on the US women’s soccer team in 2010, announced their engagement in 2019 before tying the knot later that year. They welcomed their daughter, Sloane, in 2021, followed by son Ocean in 2022. Harris filed for divorce in September 2023, and Krieger filed her own divorce papers in December of that year.
Harris has moved on One Tree Hill alum Sophia Bushwho separated from her ex-husband Grant Hughes in August 2023, Us Weekly confirmed. Bush, 42, confirmed her romance with Harris in April this year after writing her essay. It’s a luxuryIt’s a cover story, where she comes out as a queen.
Meanwhile, Krieger revealed in February that she’s ready to date again after her split from Harris, joking that she “might turn on 100 percent of people, instead of 50.” [percent]this time” while appearing on CBS’ “Kickin’ It” podcast.
