Julianne Hough Reveals Tragic Details Of How Her Dogs Died

Even years later, Julianne Hough remains to be grappling with the lack of her beloved pets Lexi, 11, and Harley, 8.

5 years later, Julianne Hough is sharing the tragic particulars of how they had been misplaced.

Years after revealing the sudden lack of her two canine, Hough has now disclosed for the primary time how they had been killed.

“I had requested for a separation,” she recalled throughout a current episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Present,” referring to her divorce from Brooks Laich. “After which ten days later my canine had been killed by coyotes.”

“I wakened earlier than my telephone even rang, and I knew, and I picked up the telephone, and my assistant on the time was identical to screaming,” she continued, noting that she’d “by no means had coyotes in her yard” earlier than, and there have been gates. “I had two canine that had been my youngsters. I had them for 11 years and for eight years. They usually had been all the things to me.”

Whereas coyotes tragically took her pups, Hough says she is grateful for 2 issues. “That they went collectively, I am so grateful they went collectively,” she advised host Jamie Kern Lima.

“Two, I am grateful that often the way it occurs may be very fast and that we received their our bodies,” the “DWTS” professional added. “However at the moment I used to be like, ‘Oh that was the unraveling of absolutely the security of like unconditional love.’”

Lexi and Harley’s deaths occurred not solely throughout her breakup with Brooks Laich but additionally whereas she was navigating a cut up along with her longtime assistant and launching her new firm, Kinrgy.

“I felt so out of alignment,” the skilled dancer recalled as tears fell down her cheek. “I am about to begin this firm which is all about serving to individuals connect with themselves and residing their most expanded free self and assistant and I are breaking apart, and I am asking for a separation as a result of one thing’s not working.”

She continued, “My canine that represented unconditional love and security are gone—I am like, ‘What am I doing? I am blowing up my life.’”

In 2023, Hough welcomed a brand new pup into her household, Sunny.

“Sunny, you could have introduced a lot love and literal sunshine into my life,” she wrote on Instagram final summer time. “I can’t bear in mind a time with out you.”

“Lexi & Harley would have liked and performed with you each day and I do know that they despatched you to me, solely after I was able to open my coronary heart and love once more,” Hough added of her new furball. “You cracked me open sweetheart.”

Earlier this month, Hough opened up about her troublesome childhood, recalling a very difficult interval when she and her brother, Derek Hough, had been despatched abroad by their mother and father to dwell and prepare with dance coaches Corky and Shirley Ballas.

“My first expertise was after I was about 4 years outdated,” she mentioned, per Us Weekly. “[It was] a neighbor in our cul-de-sac. I’ve really 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, all the things must be good.”

“And by the way in which, I’m not the one one in my household that had gone by means of comparable issues,” she added. “And in order that was a really difficult factor to come back to phrases with, which is that no person did something.”

“Being so younger, and people being your first experiences — whether or not it’s bodily, psychological, sexual — these abuses of energy to somebody who’s weak to it,” Hough mentioned. “It instantly units a precedent of: different individuals have the facility.”