Julianne Hough

The actress revealed that she felt like she was “swept up” by Ryan’s Hollywood life and she had to “overcompensate” so he didn’t feel used by her

Julianne Hough has opened up about what led to her and Ryan Seacrest’s breakup.

The actress dated the TV host from 2010 to 2013 and during an interview with Dax Shepard for his Armchair Expert podcast, she reflected on their relationship and what led to them going their separate ways.

The Dancing With the Stars alum shared that she began dating the American Idol host early on in her career when she was an aspiring country music star, who was got wrapped up in her then boyfriend’s Hollywood lifestyle. “The rug was swept up from underneath me, and I was just flying and I was experiencing things that I didn’t even know existed,” Julianne shared on the podcast. “But then I had this insecurity that I was like, ‘I don’t ever want anybody to think that I’m with him for this reason.’ And so I then started playing smaller.”

She shared that Ryan had previous experiences and situations where he felt like people were “using” him and she didn’t want to be one of them. “I again overcompensated, [I] was malleable to fit into exactly what somebody needed me to be for them to be happy,” she said.

Ryan Seacrest
The actress dated the TV host from 2010 to 2013 ( 
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Julianne Hough
She said she “overcompensated” to make Ryan happy ( 
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“When I decided to break things off, I had a lot of these Brentwood moms and producers in that world that were like, ‘What are you doing?’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ They’re like, ‘Your life is completely set up,'” she said she was told. “And I was like, ‘But I didn’t build it.’ I was like, ‘I need to create this. Competitively, it’s not mine. I need to feel the pride of doing it.'”