Julianne Hough Addresses Sexuality After Saying She’s “Not Straight”

Julianne and Brooks went on to divorce in 2022 after nearly 5 years of marriage.

As for a way she appears again on that point, the previous DWTS dance professional, who returned to the sequence as a cohost in 2023, advised Jamie Kern Lima her previous relationship with the hockey participant was “the best factor that might have occurred to me at the moment.”

“What I wanted at the moment was to reconnect to my 10-year-old self,” she defined. “And what did I would like at 10? I actually wanted security, and nearly, like, a father determine to come back in and be that grounding power of stability. And so I believe plenty of our dynamic was this little woman feeling and this stability and secure man to be there. He offered such a wonderful basis for me to be just a little woman.”

However regardless of going their separate methods romantically, Julianne notes a silver lining to their marriage. “We’re crucial, particular folks in one another’s stay and we shared a very highly effective season collectively,” she mentioned. “I do know that I additionally introduced plenty of issues to his life that he shared with me additionally and so it has undoubtedly felt like a mutual respect and love and interval of progress for each of us.”