Julianne Hough Reveals She Was A Victim Of Sexual Assault

Julianne Hough has courageously shared her harrowing expertise of sexual abuse, revealing {that a} neighbor abused her at simply 4 years previous.

In a deeply emotional convo, the actress {and professional} dancer opened up concerning the trauma she endured throughout her early childhood, letting down her partitions and shedding gentle on a painful chapter of her previous.

Not solely did she reveal that she is a sufferer of sexual abuse, however Julianne Hough says she was not the one one in her household who had a traumatic childhood.

The “Dancing With The Stars” host opened up concerning the childhood trauma she endured on a latest episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Present.”

“My first expertise was once I was about 4 years previous. [It was] a neighbor in our cul-de-sac,” she revealed, per Us Weekly. “I’ve truly by no means mentioned that out loud to somebody in an interview earlier than. That was a really complicated time, as a result of rising up within the Mormon tradition, every thing must be excellent.”

“And by the best way, I’m not the one one in my household that had gone by means of comparable issues. And in order that was a really difficult factor to return to phrases with, which is that no person did something,” she continued. “Being so younger, and people being your first experiences — whether or not or not it’s bodily, psychological, sexual — these abuses of energy to somebody who’s weak to it — it instantly units a precedent of: different folks have the facility.”

The “Dancing With The Stars” host later confirmed that her household has severed all ties with the neighbor who abused her.

Julianne then turned emotional whereas revisiting the hardest components of her childhood, tearing up as she recollects the second when her mom tried to assist her by means of the trauma.

“Once I got here again and informed my mother at 4, my garments had been inside out, she requested why they had been inside out,” Julianne recalled. “I mentioned, ‘I don’t wish to speak about it.’ And he or she mentioned, ‘Inform me what occurred.'”

“My solely means of describing it — as a result of we weren’t allowed carbonation as youngsters — was saying, ‘I felt like I had a Sprite bottle between my legs.’ So she freaked out and was panicking and her response was, ‘Stand up and transfer.’ The response factor was let’s transfer out of this neighborhood,” the singer recalled–and they did.

Attributable to her sexual assault incident, she “blocked out” her childhood reminiscences.

“I forgot about it,” she admitted. “Then different issues occurred later in my childhood and at about 15, and I began sharing these issues however I forgot concerning the neighbor factor.”

“It wasn’t till I began doing the work just lately. That’s why I blocked out from 10 to fifteen as a result of I had utterly disassociated from that taking place,” the actress continued.

Julianne went on to reveal extra about her troubled childhood, together with a harrowing interval when she and her brother Derek Hough had been shipped off abroad by their mother and father to stay and practice with dance coaches Corky and Shirley Ballas, which solely added layers to her already painful previous.

She says it wasn’t a simple street to forgiveness along with her mother and father, who “felt responsible” over their preliminary dealing with of the difficulty.

“We each are experiencing various things even when it’s the identical circumstances,” the “Footloose” actress mentioned. “For myself, it was all of my experiences about what occurred to me, and of their expertise, they’ve their very own guilt and disgrace of different issues that they had been making an attempt to do within the second. To allow them to’t hear what occurred as a result of they had been having their very own expertise.”

Through the interview, Julianne additionally opened up about her 2020 divorce from Brooks Laich and the way it has allowed her to reconnect along with her mother and father.

“Throughout my divorce is once I actually reconnected with my mother and father they usually confirmed up for me — as my mother and father,” she mentioned. “And I wanted that. I reclaimed my parental relationship with them and I received to be the child they usually received to deal with me. And that was essentially the most therapeutic [thing].”