Julianne Hough shed a few tears as she opened up the year she married her now ex-husband, former NHL player Brooks Laich.
Hough got emotional as she spoke 2017, which was also a milestone year for her and Laich’s relationship. “That was the year we got married and the year everything kinda started to unravel,” she said.
When host Dax Shephard asked whether Hough has thoughts “another time, another place,” with Laich, 41, the former Dancing With the Stars pro admitted that she does — but she’s also at peace with the decision to end their relationship.
“It wasn’t right. That can be a hard thing to fully accept,” she said. “I feel like our relationship and our marriage was exactly right, and the end of it is right, too. We both have regrets that it didn’t work out, because I don’t think we had the maturity to come together. He was contracting while I was expanding. We just couldn’t find each other in that.”
Hough noted that she and Laich have “accepted what happened” but the twosome are “sad that it didn’t work out.” She added, “He’s got the greatest heart that I could ever have the privilege of being with.”
Hough revealed that she asked for a separation from Laich in September 2019. Days later, her dogs died, which she called “very tragic.”
“It was an unraveling,” she said. “Everything that I had ever known, that I had put in place for my control and my protection … I had this marriage to this guy who represented more of a father figure to me, and while he was changing, I was changing. Uprooted everything.”
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