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 appeared again on her relationship with the tv host and producer.

The pair went by 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 might think about it might be so thrilling and so privileged and so romantic after which additionally I might really feel like I used to be dropping 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 “incredible particular person after incredible particular person.”

“However then I had this insecurity that I used to be like, ‘I do not ever need anyone to suppose 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 suppose 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 any individual wanted me to be for them to be joyful,” 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 liked the sensation of being liked — and so let me be what that must be in order that I may be liked,” Hough stated. “After which as a result of I am so full of love from somebody, after all I like you. I 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 particular person I’ve additionally dated has been an excellent particular person.”

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. Finally, I keep in mind after I determined to interrupt issues off, I had a variety of these Brentwood mothers and producers in that world that have 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 pleasure of doing it.'”

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

“That was the 12 months [2017] we acquired married and the 12 months every part kinda began to unravel,” she informed Shepard.

“It wasn’t proper. That may be a tough factor to completely 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 suppose we had the maturity to return 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.