Ashlyn Harris Gets Candid About Ali Krieger Divorce: 'I Know I Hurt Her'
Soccer superstar Ashlyn Harris finds herself in an era of reflection, which includes getting honest about her relationship with her ex-wife, Ali Krieger.
"I don't resent or regret anything about the life that I built with her; it just wasn't for me," Harris, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her new documentary, Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story.
Harris filed for divorce from Krieger, her former teammate on the U.S. women's national soccer team, in September 2023 after nearly four years of marriage. The former couple share two children: daughter Sloane, 5, and son Ocean, 3.
"You try and you try and you try and you keep trying to make it work and you don't want to fail," Harris recalled. "You don't want to give up. But also, life is really short and really long at the same time. I get one shot at this. There's no second act. If I'm feeling this way in my 30s and I'm so unhappy that I don't want to get out of bed, am I really serving her and my children and my friends and myself?"
She continued, "I had to make a really hard decision. I know I hurt her in that process."
After the divorce, Harris said she was finally able to put in the work to "figure out who I am outside of that brand."
"I'm the happiest I've ever been," said Harris, who started dating actress Sophia Bush in October 2023. "I love myself. I don't remember the last time I woke up being like, ‘I love the person I'm looking at in the mirror.' I [used to] have to remind myself every day, ‘You're enough. It's going to be OK. Just gotta put one foot in front of the other.'"
She added, "Life is too short to feel the burden and weight of a life you don't want to be in and you don't want to live. It f***ing sucks, and you have to make the hard decisions sometimes, but on the other side of that bravery is a life maybe you've always imagined. I'm privileged enough now to live that."
Harris gets candid about all of her life's highs and lows - from family struggles and her rebellious teen years, to her journey on Team USA and her relationship with Bush - in the new documentary, which premieres June 8 on The Roku Channel.
"I just always want to be authentic," she said. "I think that's where you meet the most truth and connection with life, people and community. We live in this really jaded, fragmented world because of social media now. I think we're really portraying things that aren't true a lot of the time. We always have the shiny objects and the vacations and this life that you imagine, but you might not be living."
Harris added, "I think sharing your scars is one of the most beautiful things you can do."
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This story was originally published June 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM.