Julianne Hough On Her Journey To Realize She Is ‘Not Straight’

Julianne Hough had a “lovely revelation” that led her to grasp she was “not straight.”

In a September 2019 characteristic for Girls’s Well being, the “Dancing With The Stars” co-host got here out publicly, revealing that she had shared together with her then-husband, Brooks Laich, that she was “not straight.”

This newest interview comes weeks after Julianne Hough opened up about her 2020 divorce from Brooks Laich and the way it has modified her outlook on life.

Hough addressed her sexuality in a 2019 interview with Girls’s Well being, the place she talked a couple of dialogue she had together with her then-husband.

“I (informed him), ‘ I’m not straight, proper?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I used to be like, ‘I’m not. However I select to be with you,’” she stated on the time. “I believe there’s a security with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no worry of voicing issues that I’ve been afraid to confess or that I’ve had disgrace or guilt about due to what I’ve been informed or how I used to be raised.”

Hough and Laich had been married in 2017 and finalized their divorce in 2022.

Throughout a current look on the “Jamie Kern Lima” podcast, Hough talked about her journey of discovering she is “not straight.”

“Popping out is among the most susceptible and empowering issues you are able to do. For me, it’s not about being straight, homosexual, or queer; it’s extra about studying what love is, and I really like individuals,” she stated, per Us Weekly.

The previous “Dancing With the Stars” professional-turned-host additionally revealed that she initially didn’t “know what [she’s] interested in” however determined to stay with her then-husband.

“That’s the freedom of the love that I used to be beginning to expertise in seeing individuals as a result of I used to be capable of take off a stage of safety as an alternative of being so internalized,” she stated on the podcast. “So, I used to be beginning to see individuals and seeing their hearts and seeing their magnificence and their essence. I used to be like, ‘Wow, I really like individuals and I don’t know if it’s a sexual attraction or this attraction, however I’m simply seeing individuals.’ That was, like, such a phenomenal revelation.”

In January 2020, Laich completely informed Us Weekly that Hough’s “lovely” rationalization motivated him to grow to be a greater particular person and that he had all the time embraced her “coronary heart.”

“I’ve all the time cherished individuals, however I haven’t simply been, like, nonetheless and allowed them to only be seen and simply see their essence and their magnificence,” the “Footloose” actress informed host Jamie Kern Lima on the podcast. “It wasn’t simply, like an trade of enjoyable vitality. … The extra I used to be beginning to hook up with the 28- [or] 29-year-old in me, I used to be capable of begin seeing different folks that manner too.”

Hough additionally defined how her relationship with Laich gave her the chance to discover patterns from her previous and facilitated a reference to the therapeutic of a youthful a part of herself.

“It was the best factor that would have occurred to me at the moment in my life, as a result of what I wanted at the moment was to reconnect to my 10-year-old self,” she stated, per the “TODAY” show. “And what did I want at 10? I actually wanted security and virtually like a father determine to come back in and be that grounding drive of stability.

“I believe plenty of our dynamic was this little-girl feeling, and this stability and secure man to be there,” she continued. “And so he supplied such a phenomenal basis for me to be just a little woman, and as that was the dynamic of our relationship, I used to be capable of begin that therapeutic.”

Hough defined that as she launched into that therapeutic journey, she “began changing into extra of a lady.”

“When that was taking place, I used to be beginning to hearken to my voice extra, not the 10-year-old voice that was making selections subconsciously,” she recalled. “And as that was taking place, issues began altering and my mindset … I actually began shifting and altering and questioning what I believed in.