“That was like the unraveling of absolute safety.”

The loss couldn’t have come at a worse time, she said.

Then finally, “My dogs that represented unconditional love and safety gone.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show with Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough on the ‘Jamie Kern Lima Show’.Courtesy of The Jamie Kern Lima Show

I’m like, ‘Whoa, what am I doing?

I’m blowing up my life.'”

This is the second part of Lima’s three-part interview series with Hough.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show with Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough on the ‘Jamie Kern Lima Show’.Courtesy of The Jamie Kern Lima Show

In part one, Houghrevealedshe had been sexually abused by a neighbor when she was 4 years old.

And I picked up the phone and my assistant at the time was just screaming."

“I’ve never had coyotes in my yard, I have gates and everything,” she explained.

She replacedTyra Banksas host in season 32.

What the tumultuous period taught Hough is that “change is loss.”

And also they were experiencing pain, so that was just really painful."

Don’t have a partner.

Don’t have cash.

Don’t have a credit card.

I don’t know these people’…[but] I’ve never felt more stable.

I’ve never felt more secure.

Dancing With the Starswill return for season 33 on Sept. 17.