Hollywood headlines: A celebrity week in review

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Helen Mirren's star gets a prime spot on Hollywood Walk of FameDid Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie secretly marry on Christmas Day?NeNe Leakes engaged anew to ex-husband Greg LeakesLady Gaga will offer mental-health counseling before concertsSupermodel Naomi Campbell mugged, injured on a Paris streetJulianne Hough reveals childhood abuse suffered while overseasGerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir PutinHugh Hefner, Crystal Harris finally marry on New Year's EveKim Kardashian is pregnant, expecting a baby with Kanye WestKatie Holmes and Jake Gyllenhaal? Really? OK, not really.

Dancer, singer and actress Julianne Hough, who plays a victim of abuse in the upcoming film "Safe Haven," has her own back story of abuse suffered as a child, she revealed to Cosmopolitan in its February issue.

After winning a five-year scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of the Arts, where her brother Derek Hough was studying, a 10-year-old Julianne headed from Utah to London to train in dance.

The now-24-year-old told the magazine that while in London, far from her recently divorced parents, "I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she said. It got worse "when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."

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Julianne Hough reveals childhood abuse suffered while overseas

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Dancer, singer and actress Julianne Hough, who plays a victim of abuse in the upcoming film "Safe Haven," has her own back story of abuse suffered as a child, she revealed to Cosmopolitan in its February issue. After winning a five-year scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of the Arts, where her brother Derek Hough was studying, a 10-year-old Julianne headed from Utah to London to train in dance. The now-24-year-old told the magazine that while in London, far from her recently divorced parents, "I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she said. It got worse "when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."

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