Julianne Hough

The February issue of Cosmpolitan has the lovely Julianne Hough on the cover with the dancer/actress revealing some shocking secrets from her past.

Hough, who grew up in London and studied dance there, says she was a victim of abuse as a child.

“I was abused — mentally, physically, everything,” the 24 year-old Footloose actress tells Cosmo. “I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer. I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love.”

The former Dancing With The Stars pro said it was ongoing for a quite a long time in her life:

“It got worse when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl,” Hough recalls.

Julianne also revealed the mental and verbal wrongs she was subjected to.

“I was told if I ever went back to the United States, three things were going to happen. One: I was going to amount to nothing. Two: I was going to work at Whataburger. And three: I was going to end up a slut,” she says. “So, it was like, ‘I can’t go back. I have to be this person.’”

With Hough opening up about her past, her role in the upcoming Safe Haven calls on her dark past. In the Nicholas Sparks movie, she plays a woman trying to escape an abusive husband and finds refuge with a new man.

Safe Haven, costarring Josh Duhamel opens February 14th. Look for her Cosmo issue on newsstands Jan 8th.

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