Julianne Hough opened up about a horrible thing that happened to her in her childhood. The 36-year-old Dancing With the Stars judge sat down for an interview on The Jamie Kern Lima Show . During it, she reflected on her experience with abuse as a very young child.
Julianne also revealed how the same people who abused her hurt her brother Derek . Keep reading to find out more..
. Julianne has previously revealed that she’d been abused “mentally, physically, everything” while attending a dance academy in London when she was 10. However, during this interview, she said that she’d been abused by a neighbor when she was only four.
“My first experience was when I was about four years old,” she said. “I’ve actually never said that out loud to anybody in an interview before. That was a very, very confusing time, because obviously growing up in the Mormon culture, everything needs to be perfect.
Everybody needs to put on the shiny ‘We’ve got our stuff together.’” She said that there was “not a lot of repercussion for what happened” and that other members of her family went through similar things. “Nobody did anything,” Julianne said, adding that she’d blocked out the memories of what happened to her for many years.
“That’s why I think I blocked out from birth to 10, basically, because I had completely disassociated from that ever happening,” she said. Julianne said that she didn’t think her parents knew how to respond what had happened to her. When asked what happened at the time, she said that she’d gone home with her clothes inside out, which her mom noticed.
“She said, ‘Tell me what happened,’” she said. “And I said — this was my only way of describing it because we weren’t allowed carbonation as kids, we weren’t allowed pop or anything like that, but I remember tasting it and it burned and it hurt my lungs — and I remember saying I felt like I had a Sprite bottle between my legs.” Her mom “freaked out” and decided to move out of the neighborhood, later adding that she was just realizing that her mom “did the best that she could.
” “She just wanted to move and leave. She didn’t want to deal with it. She didn’t want to talk about it, but she did want to get us out,” she said.
Julianne said that both of her sisters were also hurt. As was Derek . “My brother was hung upside down and there was a gun put to his head,” she said.
“There were all sorts of things by these people.” “The people that also violated my sisters or my brother or myself, they never got reprimanded for it because we didn’t say something,” Julianne added. “Instead, we just pivoted and we just moved — which is good, get out of a situation — but also that’s another thing which is for me, just pivot, pivot, pivot.
” Julianne also recently discussed the end of her marriage to Brooks Laich ..
