Julianne Hough worried about speaking her mind with Ryan Seacrest

She told Redbook magazine:"Every relationship, there was nothing wrong or bad, but there was nothing right.

"I had one foot out because I didn't want to get hurt. And I didn't say what was on my mind because I didn't want to ruffle any feathers. I needed to be perfect.

"Now I'm not holding anything back, because I'd rather get my heart broken than never know what it is to be completely, madly in love.

"If I had been this open in my last relationship, who knows?"

Julianne says her outlook on love changed completely after she attended a seminar and instantly decided to cut off contact with the guys she was dating - and met Brooks soon afterwards.

She told the new edition of Redbook magazine: "I had this epiphany when my family went to a six-day seminar [last November] about creating your own destiny.

"I learned so much about myself and why my relationships didn't work that by the end I was on a high. I was seeing a couple people, but immediately [I text them to say], 'You are nice, but this is going nowhere.' The next day my 'Curve' co-star introduced [Brooks and me]. It couldn't have been a better time. We've been open and honest from day one."