Julianne Hough Reveals Tragic Particulars Of How Her Canines Died

Even years later, Julianne Hough remains to be grappling with the lack of her beloved pets Lexi, 11, and Harley, 8.

5 years later, Julianne Hough is sharing the tragic particulars of how they have been misplaced.

Years after revealing the sudden lack of her two canines, Hough has now disclosed for the primary time how they have been killed.

“I had requested for a separation,” she recalled throughout a current episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Present,” referring to her divorce from Brooks Laich. “After which ten days later my canines have been killed by coyotes.”

“I awoke earlier than my cellphone even rang, and I knew, and I picked up the cellphone, and my assistant on the time was similar to screaming,” she continued, noting that she’d “by no means had coyotes in her yard” earlier than, and there have been gates. “I had two canines that have been my children. I had them for 11 years and for eight years. And so they have been every thing to me.”

Whereas coyotes tragically took her pups, Hough says she is grateful for 2 issues. “That they went collectively, I am so grateful they went collectively,” she instructed host Jamie Kern Lima.

“Two, I am grateful that often the way it occurs may be very fast and that we received their our bodies,” the “DWTS” professional added. “However at the moment I used to be like, ‘Oh that was the unraveling of absolutely the security of like unconditional love.’”

Lexi and Harley’s deaths occurred not solely throughout her breakup with Brooks Laich but additionally whereas she was navigating a cut up together with her longtime assistant and launching her new firm, Kinrgy.

“I felt so out of alignment,” the skilled dancer recalled as tears fell down her cheek. “I am about to start out this firm which is all about serving to individuals hook up with themselves and dwelling their most expanded free self and assistant and I are breaking apart, and I am asking for a separation as a result of one thing’s not working.”

She continued, “My canines that represented unconditional love and security are gone—I am like, ‘What am I doing? I am blowing up my life.’”

In 2023, Hough welcomed a brand new pup into her household, Sunny.

“Sunny, you might have introduced a lot love and literal sunshine into my life,” she wrote on Instagram final summer time. “I can’t bear in mind a time with out you.”

“Lexi & Harley would have liked and performed with you every single day and I do know that they despatched you to me, solely after I was able to open my coronary heart and love once more,” Hough added of her new furball. “You cracked me open sweetheart.”

Earlier this month, Hough opened up about her troublesome childhood, recalling a very difficult interval when she and her brother, Derek Hough, have been despatched abroad by their dad and mom to stay and prepare with dance coaches Corky and Shirley Ballas.

“My first expertise was after I was about 4 years previous,” she mentioned, per Us Weekly. “[It was] a neighbor in our cul-de-sac. I’ve truly by no means mentioned that out loud to somebody in an interview earlier than. That was a really complicated time, as a result of rising up within the Mormon tradition, every thing must be excellent.”

“And by the way in which, I’m not the one one in my household that had gone via related issues,” she added. “And in order that was a really difficult factor to return to phrases with, which is that no person did something.”

“Being so younger, and people being your first experiences — whether or not or not it’s bodily, psychological, sexual — these abuses of energy to somebody who’s susceptible to it,” Hough mentioned. “It instantly units a precedent of: different individuals have the ability.”