Julianne Hough is opening up more about her sexuality after previously coming out as “not straight.”

“Coming out is one of the most vulnerable and empowering things that you can do,” the “Dancing with the Stars” co-host said during a recent interview on the “The Jamie Kern Lima Show” podcast.

“And I think for me it was very much like, it’s not about being straight or gay or bi or queer,” she continued. “It’s more about, I think I’m just learning what love is, and I love people.”

Hough, 36, discussed her sexuality in a 2019 Women’s Health interview, mentioning a conversation she had had with her then-husband, Canadian ice hockey player Brooks Laich.

“I (told him), ‘You know I’m not straight, right?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you,’” she said at the time.

“I think there’s a safety with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no fear of voicing things that I’ve been afraid to admit or that I’ve had shame or guilt about because of what I’ve been told or how I was raised,” she added.

Hough and Laich married in 2017 and finalized their divorce in 2022.

In her recent interview with Jamie Kern, Hough reflected on the dynamic she had with Laich, who she met when she was 25.

During a time when she and Laich were doing long-distance — she was based in Los Angeles and he was in Washington, D.C. — Hough said she deprioritized her own needs for the sake of the relationship.

“I would go back and forth to DC every other week, and I stopped taking care of what I wanted to do,” she said. “I wouldn’t put myself on tape for auditions anymore, and I went very much into the season of ‘relationship.’ And it went into that extreme.”

She also reflected on how her relationship with Laich allowed her to explore patterns from her past, and helped her connect to and heal a younger part of herself.

“It was the greatest thing that could have happened to me at that time in my life, because what I needed at that time was to reconnect to my 10-year-old self,” she said. “And what did I need at 10? I really needed safety and almost like a father figure to come in and be that grounding force of stability.

“I think a lot of our dynamic was this little-girl feeling, and this stability and stable man to be there,” she continued. “And so he provided such a beautiful foundation for me to be a little girl, and as that was the dynamic of our relationship, I was able to start that healing.”

Hough explained that as she went on that healing journey, she “started becoming more of a woman.”

“When that was happening, I was starting to listen to my voice more, not the 10-year-old voice that was making decisions subconsciously,” she said. “And as that was happening, things started changing and my mindset … I really started shifting and changing and questioning what I believed in.”

Hough said that when she started to connect with who she was in her late 20s, she noticed other people’s “essence” and “beauty.”

“I was able to start seeing other people that way, too, and not just as like their personalities, but as their souls,” she said.