Ashlyn Harris Claims She and Ali Krieger 'Weren't Intimate' in Their Marriage

Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Human Rights Campaign

is reflecting on her relationship with ex .

The former USWNT star, 39, opened up about the end of the former couple’s relationship and how “hard” of a process it was for her during an appearance on the Monday, November 25, episode of the “Naked Sports With Cari Champion” podcast, where she claimed that the pair weren’t “intimate the entire part” of their marriage.

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“I just felt like I wasn’t a priority,” Harris explained. “I didn’t feel that sense of connection, whether emotional or physical. It was soccer, job, kids, and then somewhere down the line it was like, ‘Okay, what about me?'”

Noting that she is a “touchy feely” person, Harris went on to say she could “only give so much until you really have nothing left,” adding that she “became very, very good at dissociating” because of her “ability to sit and suffer” and her “ability to serve other people” before herself, which she “genuinely” thinks kept her in “that marriage for as long as it did.”

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Harris claimed that she “started trying all these things” — like suggesting an open marriage, which she said was “not even her” — to attempt to salvage their union.

“I felt so embarrassed and I felt so much shame that I didn’t know how to tell people that, like, oh, my wife doesn’t want to touch me or doesn’t want to be intimate or doesn’t want this,” Harris admitted, which prompted host to ask if Krieger, 40, would “disagree” with her “assessment” of their relationship.

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“No, she can’t say that because we weren’t intimate the entire part of our marriage,” she claimed. “So that’s … I mean, facts are just the facts. It is what it is.”

Us Weekly has reached out to Krieger’s team for comment.

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Harris and Krieger, who first met through the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in 2010, announced their engagement in 2019 before tying the knot later that year. They adopted their daughter, Sloane, in 2021, followed by son Ocean in 2022. Harris filed for divorce in September 2023, while Krieger filed divorce papers of her own in December that year.

Harris has since moved on with One Tree Hill alum , who split from ex-husband in August 2023, Us Weekly confirmed. Bush, 42, confirmed her and Harris’ romance in April this year after penning a personal essay for Glamour‘s cover story, in which she came out as queer.

Meanwhile, Krieger revealed in February that she’s ready to date again after her and Harris’ split, joking that she “might be opening up to 100 percent of the population, instead of 50 [percent], at this time” while appearing on CBS’ “Kickin’ It” podcast.

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