Julianne Hough had to call her mom to reassure her that she had not written about her in her new book.
Julianne Hough has turned her hand to writing fiction
The 36-year-old dancer recently released her first novel 'Everything We Never Knew' - which follows a a woman who begins to experience strange events and realizes she has new powers but then is dealt with an ultimatum regarding her husband - and had to make sure that her mother Marriann knew that she was not the maternal character, even though Julianne used "so much of her lived experience" to write the story to begin with.
She told Access Hollywood: "It is my version of being able to share my universal [themes] of what I have gone through in my life, without giving all my personal details to everyone. I called my mom today and was like, ‘Hey mom just so you know, I know I’ve talked to you about this, but you’re not the mom in my book. Just so you know, because there are some heavy things in there and I just want you to know, you’re not the mom don’t worry."
"It was easy it was so much of my lived experience, as well as my understanding of relating to others as much as I could you know and pulling experiences that other people have had."
Meanwhile, the 'Grease Live!' star shot to fame as a professional on 'Dancing With the Stars' in the late 2000s before returning to serve as a judge on the ABC competition series and admitted that the whole thing has been "life-changing" for her, and almost like a dream.
She said: "It's been life-changing. I went to sleep at 18 years old, literally just graduated high school and then all the sudden in people’s living rooms around the country and these people have followed my career for almost 18 years. They’ve been my family and supported me and been on this journey of me trying different things along the way
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