Julianne Hough is opening up about her journey of popping out.
“Popping out is likely one of the most susceptible and empowering issues that you are able to do,” the Dancing with the Stars co-host stated throughout an interview on the Aug. 27 episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Present podcast, offering followers with an replace on her sexuality almost 5 years after she first shared that she was “not straight.”
“I believe, for me, it was very very like, it’s not about being straight or homosexual or bi or queer. It’s extra about studying what love is. I like folks, and I don’t know what I’m drawn to, however I select you.”
“I used to be beginning to see folks, their hearts, their magnificence, and their essence in a manner that made me understand, wow, I like folks. I don’t know if it’s a sexual attraction or another sort of attraction, however I’m simply seeing folks. That was such a ravishing revelation.”
Again in 2019, in a Ladies’s Well being interview, the 36-year-old talked about a dialog along with her then-husband, Canadian ice hockey participant Brooks Laich, the place she requested, “You recognize I’m not straight, proper?”
“And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I replied, ‘I’m not. However I select to be with you,’” Hough recalled.
“I believe there’s a security with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no concern of voicing issues I’ve been afraid to confess or felt disgrace or guilt about due to what I’ve been advised or how I used to be raised,” she added.
Hough—who married Laich in 2017 and finalized their divorce in 2022—stated in the identical Aug. 27 interview that their marriage was “the best factor that might have occurred to me at the moment.”
“What I wanted then was to reconnect with my 10-year-old self. At 10, I wanted security and nearly a father determine to supply a grounding pressure of stability. A lot of our dynamic was this little lady needing a secure man. He offered a ravishing basis for me to be that little lady.”
Nevertheless it was that dynamic, as Hough started therapeutic and “turning into extra of a girl,” that led her to comprehend they wanted various things.
“I actually began shifting, altering, and questioning what I believed in.”