Julianne Hough Particulars ‘Lovely’ Run-in With Ex-Husband Brooks Laich And His New Girlfriend

The Dancing with the Stars co-host and Laich have been married from July 2017 till their cut up in July 2020. They’d dated for 3 years prior and it might be two extra earlier than their divorce was finalized in June 2022. In the meantime, the retired NHL star had gone public in his relationship with CrossFit athlete Davíðsdóttir in July 2021.

Showing on Monday’s installment of The Jamie Kern Lima Present podcast, Hough mentioned that she’s simply feeling extra at peace inside herself, which helps her be that approach searching, as properly.

“My ex-husband was there together with his girlfriend,” she mentioned. “It was so lovely. I am on this place the place I now really feel like I’m simply starting with a lot knowledge, with a lot perception, with a lot empathy and understanding of what is attainable.”

“I’ve by no means felt extra secure,” she mentioned of her self-healing journey. “I;ve by no means felt safer, I’ve by no means felt extra constant, I’ve by no means felt extra beloved by the folks round me than I do proper now. I am like, ‘Wow, I actually have such a clear slate.'”

On the similar time, she absolutely acknowledges that she’s not residing “this good life,” and he or she would not even have that as a purpose. As a substitute, she’s concentrating on a “full, lovely, related life.”

Hough didn’t specify whose wedding ceremony she was at when she bumped into her ex-husband, however Us Weekly notes that Laich was a groomsman at Derek Hough’s August 2023 wedding ceremony to Hayley Erbert. Julianne was additionally part of the bridal social gathering.

As for her way of living now, Hough defined on Monday’s podcast that it is about experiencing all sides. “You are feeling pleasure since you really feel sorrow, you are feeling all these items as a result of you’ve gotten the spectrum to really feel it,” she mentioned. “You will have the house to really feel it, and that, I feel, is what we’re right here to expertise, is the fullness of life.”

That does not essentially imply planning to “undergo arduous issues,” however Hough defined that is already occurred for her previously.

In a earlier installment of Lima’s three-part interview with Hough, the skilled dancer mentioned that regardless of how issues ended between them, her ex-husband was the “best factor that might have occurred to me at the moment of my life.”

She mentioned that it was about reconnecting with a youthful model of herself who “wanted security and nearly, like, a father determine to return in and be that grounding power of stability.”

“That was the dynamic of our relationship, I used to be capable of begin that therapeutic,” Hough defined, saying that the “stability” Laich supplied her helped her undergo the journey of changing into “extra of a lady.”

Her entire journey leaves her much more conscious of herself and what it’s she’s in search of to undergo life’s journey with. For Hough, meaning somebody who’s prepared to seek out her the place she’s at.

Within the meantime, the dancer defined she’s simply going to maintain “residing and vibrating within the place of my most genuine self for that to be what attracts whoever it’s, versus I am gonna put what I feel I would like and want on the market after which actually power create it.”

You’ll be able to try Julianne Hough’s all three of Julianne Hough’s appearances on The Jamie Kern Lima Present beneath.

And you may catch Julianne Hough co-hosting Dancing with the Stars each Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+.