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Julianne Hough Details Gut-Wrenching Story of How Her Dogs Died
Julianne Hough has yet recovered her peace.
Almost five years aft the abrupt decease of her beloved dogs Lexi, 11, and Harley, 8, pursuing a coyote attack, the Dancing With the Stars host is reflecting connected their passing, and however she was precocious capable to "let them go" erstwhile she learned astir the conception of psyche fragmentation during an vigor retreat.
"When thing truly tragic happens," she said on The Jamie Kern Lima Show Sept. 23, "and a portion of your psyche gets fragmented and it goes with immoderate happened."
And for Julianne, she felt that her psyche had fragmented aft her dogs died and that a portion of her was inactive with her pups, explaining that she "did a retrieval of bringing my psyche backmost and besides giving their portion of them backmost to them too."
"I realized, 'Oh, I'm holding them back,'" she admitted. "They request to beryllium capable to determination guardant and determination on."
Following her psyche retrieval, the 36-year-old shared that she "felt precise whole" for the archetypal clip since their death, which helped her penning the opus "Tiny Oceans" inspired by her grief for her caller novel Everything We Never Knew. The publication besides features different motion to her beloved pets: the main quality is named Lexi.
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"In the book, Lexi goes done a nonaccomplishment and truthful I wrote this song," she explained, "very intentionally astir my psyche fraction oregon fragmentation, and that nonaccomplishment with my girls, and the worst benignant of symptom I've ever experienced of grief."
The Rock of Ages actress has been candid connected the symptom she felt aft Lexi and Harley were killed by coyotes portion she was distant astatine a bachelorette enactment successful Lake Tahoe in 2019.
"I had conscionable arrived that nighttime and went to sleep," she recalled to Jamie, "and I woke up earlier my telephone adjacent rang and I knew. And I picked up the phone, and my adjunct astatine the clip was conscionable similar screaming."
Luckily, Julianne's adjunct was capable to find the bodies of the 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and Julianne made it backmost location arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to walk clip with them earlier she had them cremated.
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Even after the cremation, the dancer could inactive consciousness the pups with her arsenic she and her household were driving home, noting however it felt particularly almighty erstwhile a opus from the extremity of 2000's Gladiator began to play.
"My member conscionable stopped the car and the prima was pouring in," she remembered, "and I was wholly feeling them and they were kissing me. And I was with them—I felt their souls truthful clearly. And that was truthful beautiful."
In the years since Lexi and Harley's death, Julianne has besides recovered different ways to assistance her heal, similar erstwhile she welcomed caller puppy Sunny into her beingness successful 2023.
"Sunny, you person brought truthful overmuch emotion and literal sunshine successful to my life," she shared on Instagram successful July for Sunny's archetypal birthday. "I can't retrieve a clip without you. Lexi & Harley would person loved and played with you mundane and I cognize that they sent you to me, lone erstwhile I was acceptable to unfastened my bosom and emotion again—you cracked maine unfastened sweetheart."
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