On
Her
Romance
With
Ex
Ryan
Seacrest

When
Julianne
started
dating


Ryan
Seacrest
in
2010,
she
was
introduced
to
a
new
world—one
with
luxury
vacations,
courtside
Lakers
seats
and
glamorous
date
nights.

“The
rug
was
swept
up
from
underneath
me
and
I
was
just
flying,”
she
said
on
an
August
2024
episode
of


Dax
Shepard’s
podcast


Armchair
Expert.
“I
was
experiencing
things
that
I
didn’t
even
know
existed.
But
then
I
had
this
insecurity
that
I
was
like, ‘I
don’t
ever
want
anybody
to
think
that
I’m
with
him
for
this
reason.
So
I
then
started
playing
smaller.'”

And

Julianne
saw
herself
change.

“I,
again,
overcompensated,
was
malleable
to
fit
into
exactly
what
somebody
needed
me
to
be
for
them
to
be
happy,”
she
added.
“What
I’ve
realized
over
the
years
is
I
don’t
know
if
I’ve
ever
truly
been
in
love
with
someone,
but
I
have
loved
the
feeling
of
being
loved.
And
so
let
me
be
what
that
needs
to
be
so
that
I
can
be
loved.
And
then
because
I’m
so
filled
with
love
from
someone,
of
course
I
love
you.
I
love
everyone.
I’ve
been
in
love
with
everybody
I’ve
ever
dated,
but
have
I?
I
don’t
wanna
overanalyze
it
because
every
person
I’ve
also
dated
has
been
a
very
good
person.”

When
Julianne
and
Ryan
split
2013,
she
noted,
a
lot
of “Brentwood
moms
and
producers”
questioned
the
decision.

“They’re
like,
‘Your
life
is
completely
set
up,'”
she
said. “And
I
was
like,
‘But
I
didn’t
build
it.’
And
of
course
I
was
like,
‘I
need
to
create
this,’
competitively,
like, ‘it’s
not
mine,
and
I
wanna
feel
the
pride
of
doing
it.’”