Julianne Hough Reveals She Was Sexually Abused at 4, Says Her Brother Derek was Hurt by Same People

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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.