Julianne Hough Recalls How 'Everything Fell Apart' During 'Darkest Time' in Life — Including Death of Her Dogs and Divorce

Julianne Hough is getting candid astir nan “darkest time” successful her life — and really she yet recovered her measurement done it.

In a caller video interview pinch Dhar Mann, an influencer and entrepreneur dedicated to sharing real-life stories that animate and uplift, Hough, 37, explained that she knowledgeable immense occurrence early successful her career, which ironically group nan shape for later struggles.

She said that aft “hustling” successful Los Angeles for astir six months, she sewage nan occupation to activity arsenic a dancer connected play 4 of Dancing pinch nan Stars successful 2007.

“I ended up doing nan show and won my first 2 seasons back-to-back,” Hough recalled. “It was for illustration a ripple effect. The stars were aligned.”

“I ended up getting a state euphony grounds woody and had a No. 1 album and champion caller female vocalist, champion caller artist,” she continued. “And past I started doing movies with Tom Cruise and had this amazing, like, momentum.”

However, Hough said things yet took a awesome turn.

“Everything was going, going, going, and past everything fell apart,” she told Mann, 41.

“My dogs were killed by coyotes,” she explained, referring to her beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Lexi and Harley, who died successful 2019, earlier adding that her matrimony besides “started unraveling.”

Hough joined erstwhile master lucky subordinate Brooks Laich successful July 2017. They announced their separation successful May 2020 and revenge for divorcement successful November of that aforesaid year. The divorce was finalized successful 2022.

While speaking to Mann, Hough said that different foundational elements successful her life — for illustration activity and friendships — besides began to displacement and alteration astatine that time.

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“My career, my friend group, everything that I had known really started taking a different shape. That was very much, like, astir apt nan darkest time," she recalled.

The Footloose star said she yet began nan process of moving forward, but it wasn’t easy.

“It was a process and it was timing,” she explained. “You can't unreserved healing. You can't unreserved nan clip framework that you request to spell done to study a lesson.”

“But I will opportunity that I poured my power into self-care,” she added. “I poured my power into things that brought maine joy, which are friendships, and really invested into others. I deliberation that nan infinitesimal you consciousness isolated aliases lonely, nan infinitesimal you tin deliberation astir serving personification else, it brings you truthful overmuch joyousness and momentum, and it virtually changes nan wave and vibration successful your full body. But it's a travel and it's a process and it doesn't hap overnight.”

Hough went connected to opportunity that she has recovered that choosing to situation herself pinch nan “good people” and positivity has besides been a immense portion of her journey.

“You know, we unrecorded successful specified a world that is truthful fast-paced, and we're inundated pinch truthful overmuch information. Surround yourself pinch bully group … aliases publication nan contented that inspires you and brings you joyousness alternatively of comparison," Hough said.

“I deliberation sometimes erstwhile we look astatine truthful galore different people's stuff, we consciousness for illustration we person to beryllium for illustration them, but your characteristic is truthful beautiful and you are 1 of one,” she added.