Life hasn't always been kind to Julianne Hough.

The actress and girlfriend of Ryan Seacrest stars in the upcoming movie Safe Haven, in which she plays a girl who survives an abusive ex-boyfriend and accepts the love of a widower, played by Josh Duhamel. The topic of abuse is something that hits close to home for Julianne; she revealed in an interview with Cosmopolitan that she was abused "mentally, physically, everything" as a child by her dance instructors.

Find out the details after the jump.