Julianne Hough Opens Up About Childhood Abuse: 'I Was a Tormented Little Kid Who Had to Put on This Sexy Façade'
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Jan 2, 2013 8:30 PM    

Julianne Hough Opens Up About Childhood Abuse: ‘I Was a Tormented Little Kid Who Had to Put on This Sexy Façade’

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Julianne Hough Opens Up About Childhood Abuse: 'I Was a Tormented Little Kid Who Had to Put on This Sexy Façade'Actress and Star-Dancer Julianne Hough is playing a domestic abuse survivor in her next movie, which apparently inspired her to open up to Cosmo about her own history of abuse. Hough moved to England at age 10 to begin her dance career, and says she was abused "mentally, physically, everything." It's pretty heartbreaking stuff. More »

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