Julianne Hough Reveals Why Her Relationship With Ryan Seacrest Ended

Whereas sitting down with Dax Shepard for his Armchair Knowledgeable podcast, the 36-year-old seemed again on her relationship with the tv host and producer.

The pair went via Hough’s life and her journey to fame. She introduced up how she started courting Seacrest early on in her pursuit to be a rustic music singer.

“And was courting Seacrest … I’d think about it will be so thrilling and so privileged and so romantic after which additionally I’d really feel like I used to be shedding myself to all of that,” Shepard requested Hough.

“That was precisely the dynamic. The rug was swept up from beneath me, and I used to be simply flying and I used to be experiencing issues that I didn’t even know existed,” she responded as Shepard added that Hough was assembly “improbable individual after improbable individual.”

“However then I had this insecurity that I used to be like, ‘I do not ever need anyone to assume that I am with him because of this.’ And so I then began enjoying smaller,” Hough stated.

Whereas she was courting Seacrest, Hough admitted she did not need individuals to assume she was “utilizing” him.

“I do know that that was his expertise in previous conditions and stuff, and so I once more overcompensated, [I] was malleable to suit into precisely what someone wanted me to be for them to be completely happy,” she stated.

The dancer and actress dated the 49-year-old from 2010 to 2013.

“What I’ve realized over time is I don’t know if I’ve ever actually been in love with somebody, however I’ve beloved the sensation of being beloved — and so let me be what that must be in order that I might be beloved,” Hough stated. “After which as a result of I am so full of love from somebody, in fact I really like you. I really like everybody. I have been in love with everybody I’ve ever dated, however have I? I do not need to overanalyze it, as a result of each individual I’ve additionally dated has been an excellent individual.”

Hough additional analyzed her previous and revealed that she was “oblivious” and “dissociative” together with her conduct with relationships that she was unaware that it was a “repeated sample”.

“I had no concept that was, like, a repeated sample. Ultimately, I bear in mind after I determined to interrupt issues off, I had quite a lot of these Brentwood mothers and producers in that world that had been like, ‘What are you doing?’ And I used to be like, ‘What do you imply?’ They’re like, ‘Your life is totally arrange,'” Hough recalled being informed. “And I used to be like, ‘However I didn’t construct it.’ I used to be like, ‘I must create this. Competitively, it isn’t mine. I must really feel the satisfaction of doing it.'”

Hough went on to marry NHL participant Brooks Laich in 2017 nevertheless, the pair cut up in 2019, publicly asserting it in Might 2020.

“That was the 12 months [2017] we received married and the 12 months all the pieces kinda began to unravel,” she informed Shepard.

“It wasn’t proper. That may be a tough factor to totally settle for,” she stated. “I really feel like our relationship and our marriage was precisely proper, and the tip of it’s proper, too. We each have regrets that it didn’t work out, as a result of I don’t assume we had the maturity to come back collectively. He was contracting whereas I used to be increasing. We simply could not discover one another in that.”

5 months after sharing their separation, Hough filed for divorce from Laich which was finalized in June 2022.