And speaking of opening up, Julianne’s interview about her sexuality revealed a different side of her to fans.
“I [told him], ‘You know I’m not straight, right?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you,'” she recalled to Women’s Health about a conversation with Brooks. “I think there’s a safety with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no fear of voicing things that I’ve been afraid to admit or that I’ve had shame or guilt about because of what I’ve been told or how I was raised.”
“I’ve been de-layering all the survival tactics I’ve built up my whole life,” she said. “Now, I feel limitless.”
Brooks also talked about “exploring” his sexuality.
“I’ve shared this on this show many times, like, a big part of my journey in 2020 is exploring my sexuality,” he said during one of his podcast episodes. “And by that I don’t mean if I’m gay or straight, I mean like, in my sexual relationship what is my sexuality and what am I craving and what are my desires and what are my wife’s and how could we have this language to feed each other and get everything we want and be sexually expressed to the nth degree in everything?”
Despite the separate paths both Julianne and Brooks have decided to take, it’s safe to say they’ll always share a mutual respect for each other.
In describing his now ex-wife, the athlete previously shared with E! News, “She leads with her heart everywhere she goes. She supports everybody and for them to become the best versions of themselves.”