WEBVTT - MisStep 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:17.960 Misspelling with Tory Spelling an iHeartRadio podcast. So, DWTS, I 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:22.000 don't know if there's ever been a contestant on Dancing 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.680 with the Stars with the initials TS. I mean, it's 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.840 like it was made for me until it wasn't. So 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.320 last night on Dancing with the Stars, it was my 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:41.160 second week of dancing, and it was a double elimination, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.440 and I'll just cut to the chase. I went home, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:58.480 I went home, I got eliminated, And yeah, I'm still 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.480 going to take that team name though, DWTS, I mean 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.560 dancing with Tori Spelling. I mean, I'm gonna run with it. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.840 I'm gonna dance with it. I'm gonna run but all 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.760 day and night long in my head now no longer 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:18.759 in the ballroom. But what an unbelievable experience. This is 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:25.440 all such a new territory for me, and I had 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.479 such an incredible experience. There's so many things dancing through 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.520 my head right now, you guys, so many thoughts, so 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:40.360 many feelings. I guess the big word is just gratitude. Honestly, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.640 I loved every second of this experience. I'm not gonna lie. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.480 Did I want to stay longer? 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:49.559 Duh? 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.160 Yeah, I wanted to keep dancing, I wanted to keep 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.920 living like that. The ballroom gave me such a new 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:04.880 take on life and such joy that I wanted to 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.720 keep going. I felt like I was just getting started. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:13.920 But you know, it's a reality TV show, that's the reality. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.640 You know, someone has to go home, there has to 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.800 be eliminations, and you know, I became so close with everybody. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.480 I really didn't want anybody to go home. But I 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.120 got to say, I have never been in a place 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.240 where I felt It's funny it's a competition show, because 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:38.120 I've felt zero competition with that family, Like there was 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:45.600 nothing just support and love, unconditional love. And that's another 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.440 huge takeaway that I'll leave this experience with. You know, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:54.000 you go through life different experiences in different places, whether 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.959 it's work, personal life is one big social experiment, right 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.000 and you never really truly know what you're going to 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.720 get out of it till you experience the experiment. It 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:13.520 was just such a loving atmosphere. So I will miss that. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.760 I made such great friends that I hope to stay 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.800 in contact with. And I got to say, well, I 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.000 didn't want to go home on my second dance, the 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.600 dance I went out with was the song that means 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:33.640 really everything to me. It was Oscar night and I 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.120 danced to This is Me from the Greatest Showman. I 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.320 had all five babies in the audience rooting me on. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.840 I had my best friend in life just there. My 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.000 dear friend Gabrielle from nine O two and Ohero was there. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:04:00.120 It was magical. And this one was really for my kids, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.840 this song in this dance because it's our family anthem. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.760 This is Me. The Greatest Showman is our favorite movie. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.200 And when we were presented with the opportunity to dance 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:17.279 to a song that made it with us from an 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:22.600 Oscar nominated movie, I immediately was like, please, can I 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.440 do Greatest Showmen because it just means so much to 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.320 my kids and I. The Greatest Showman I know. Twenty 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.760 eighteen is when we saw it, and it was one 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.239 of those movies that we didn't see in the theater, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:41.360 and I remember when I saw the trailer thinking, oh huh, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.960 I don't know, I don't know how that movie looks. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.640 I'm not sure. I'm not like running to see it. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.760 The kids weren't like that excited, and it was one 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.160 of those you know, sleeper movies for me, like it 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.640 took off for everybody else, like it was a huge hit, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.200 but for us, we saw it on pay per view. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.200 I remember, I think we were we were at a 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.479 hotel and we saw it for the first time, and 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.599 it was kind of one of those things where we're like, oh, yeah, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.160 that movie came out and we didn't see it, and 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.560 let's give it a try, you know, And we watched 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:19.520 it and I just remember being like, oh my gosh, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.960 it just it was a time in our lives. We 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.520 were going through some hard personal things with our family, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.960 and I was like, Wow, this movie resonates on such 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:37.480 a deep level for so many reasons, and a lot 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.560 of reasons I don't even speak about. I have publicly 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:46.520 spoken about my kids going through bullying in their past, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:51.919 their school and social and specifically the song This Is 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.600 Me was like, Oh, it just hit home. It hit 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.480 home for me on a personal level, because you know, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.320 we all have been broken down, I think in life 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:12.080 in one way or another, and it's so personal our 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:18.080 own struggles and what personally breaks us. But I definitely 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.160 felt that song and for my kids, you know, I 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.919 remember thinking, Okay, they've been going through a lot with 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.600 bullying in school, and several of my kids had it 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.680 happened to them over and over again. And I know 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.520 I'm not alone there. There's so many parents out there 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.000 that have dealt with their children being bullied, and as 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.719 a parent, it's such a hard thing to deal with 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.479 because you just don't want us to happen to them. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.280 You never want to happen to your kids, even if 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.040 it happened to you when you were young. It's like, no, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.400 I don't want it to happen to them. And babies 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.120 come into this world so honest and pure and with 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:10.560 so much self love, and slowly life things happen in 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.680 life that breaks that love barrier down and makes us 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.400 all feel less than we should ever feel, because we 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:26.520 all should have self love and sometimes external things impact that. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.720 And as a parent, when you see it happen, you 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.760 do your best to try to manage it and hope 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:39.400 that it doesn't leave internal unseen scars. But you know 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.800 it does because it happened to you, So you know 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:49.320 that words can be I want to say, forgiven, but 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.920 not forgotten, and they leave an internal imprint, a scar 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.960 on you. And in some form, it's our scars that 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.440 build us up to be a better version of ourselves 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.600 because some of us wear them externally, some of us 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.880 wear them internally, and it's how we choose to push 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.200 past them. It's a silly thing. I always go back to, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.320 like scar tissue. Like if you've ever had gotten hurt 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.120 and you have a scar and you have like that 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.720 tough scar tissue and they say, oh, massage, you can 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.440 break down scar tissue. You can. I feel like, you know, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.200 scars can be broken down. Takes a lot of work, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.120 and the internal ones are really hard to work on, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.120 and it takes a lot of perseverance and a lot 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.800 of belief in yourself. And so anyway, I'm babbling, but 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.040 this song This is Me really spoke to my kids 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.040 on that level. And so we just made that our 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.520 family anthem and internal external battles in life were going 0:08:55.600 --> 0:09:00.160 to keep going and you have to rise above it 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.640 and pushed through it because that's the only thing you 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.040 can do. You have to have hope in life and believe. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.200 And so anytime, you know, that was twenty eighteen, we 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.320 saw that movie and that song spoke to us, and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.040 anytime my kids have had hard things in life, we 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.400 go back to that song and We watched that movie 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.520 literally in our house like once a month, and we 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:28.040 sing it and we danced to it. And I mean 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:33.840 the fact that I got to publicly do this amazing 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:41.120 dance in this beautiful ballroom with unbelievable sets and lighting 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:47.160 and just this beautiful choreography to this dance that was 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:53.040 so personal and intimate with the most amazing, beautiful professional 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.600 dancer that Pasha is, and he choreographed such a raw 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:04.800 personal story in the dance, and I felt it so 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.320 deeply in the fact that my kids got to be 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.959 there and have this performance that really was just for 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.400 them and for me, but the world got to see. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.160 It's pretty special. So I'm glad I went out on 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.199 that song. That's all. That was a long way to 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.920 get to what I was trying to say. But and 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.160 just looking over at my kids in the audience and 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.440 seeing the pride on their faces, that is something I 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.400 don't know as a parent, you don't get to do often. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.880 I mean, we are our kids' best champions and cheerleaders 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:42.560 through life as parents, but we don't always get the 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:48.000 opportunity to have them be our biggest champions. And doing 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:53.400 that dance and looking over and seeing my babies beaming 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.720 from the audience. You know, I say I'm fearful of 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.920 performing in front of an audience. In that moment, I 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.360 looked over and there wasn't an audience of hundreds or 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:10.280 millions watching live on a television screen. There were five. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.280 There were five people, and it was like I was 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.960 doing a private dance just for them and just seeing 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.920 them smile and cheering. And Pasha was like, did you 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.480 see Liam, your oldest Like he was like yeah, and 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.199 I was like, yeah, I did see it. Oh my gosh. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.920 So they were so proud and was I shocked that 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.880 we were eliminated? I guess you can't be shocked. It's 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.200 you know, it's anyone's game, right, you can't control. I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.240 was happy with the judges, you know, I felt like 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.160 I improved. I took their notes. Last week. I worked 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.520 really hard to move past the timutory that Carrie Anne 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.160 had called out, and I feel like I achieved that 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.680 with this dance because I felt really confident when the dance, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.720 I felt really good about myself and I thought I 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.120 could do right and I got to show off my flexibility. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.760 I'm really flexible, and I was like, that's my strong 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.280 suit I got to do some moves and I don't know. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:20.080 They weren't easy. The choreography, it was challenging, and I 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.120 worked through it and did it and owned it, and 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.920 I'm really proud of that. But you know, you can't 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.440 control how people vote. It's hard. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:30.840 You know. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.520 There's a lot of amazing people on the show and 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.000 a lot of fan faves. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.559 So I think it's an outrage. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:43.360 I do. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 I'm calling sixty minutes to do an investigation. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:52.960 Ruthan once an internal investigation to the votes. She thinks 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.400 there was a glitch in the system. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.640 Definitely a glitch in the system. If airlines can be 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.360 grounded from a glitch, there could have totally been a 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:03.720 glitch in the voting for Tori. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.320 So I'm suspicious. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.679 I mean, politically, they asked for recount sometimes, right, can 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.920 you do that in the ballroom? Ballroom recount? 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.320 I don't these days? Sure? Sure you Gloria all read 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.920 to do a press conference and say that a recount. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.040 Oh my god, that's a brilliant idea. I'm calling her 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:22.560 right now. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.199 Okay, we'll wait, Can you get her on the line. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.080 The funny part is we do a full dress rehearsal 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.120 each week, full out and you know your dress, the music, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.640 you know, all special effects for your dance, boom, you 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:39.960 do it. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.800 You go through the. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:46.439 Entire show full pass. Obviously, last week, no eliminations. This week, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.120 double elimination, so we did the mock one, you know, 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.920 the faux one of so we all knew where we 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.800 we would be standing, and they said, we're just doing 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.439 a fake one. Anyone who's safe, anyone who is up, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:04.160 anyone who you know for elimination. Two couples will be eliminated. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.280 We're just going through the motions. We've randomly chosen them. Obviously, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.280 it meant nothing because you know, the fans hadn't even 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.600 voted yet, the show hadn't gone live yet, we hadn't 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:18.600 done the real performance. But the funny part is when 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.320 we did the fake you know, dress rehearsal run through, 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.480 they were like, okay, the first couple that is safe 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:30.760 this week, and they called out Tori and Pasha, which 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:31.240 is funny. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:32.960 That's it. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.600 I got to experience that, I got to experience being 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.560 safe and the first one, and I was like, oh, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.720 this feels good, you know, and we're like, you know, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:49.320 we ran backstage like okay, cool. So yeah, I didn't, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.600 you know, I always talk about my gut instinct and 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.800 following my gut, and I really didn't have a gut 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:00.600 instinct that we would be voted off. I listen, I'm 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.720 a realist. I came into this with no dance experience, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.880 and I didn't expect to, you know, win the mirror Ball. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.240 He was like, what a cool underdog story if I 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.400 like got better each week and just went forehead and 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.800 like won that mirror Ball for Pasha who deserves it. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.440 He's so talented and he's never won a mirror Ball. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.440 And I was like, I'm gonna be the one to 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.480 get it because no one ever, they've never seen me 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:35.400 coming but a dark horse in the competition. It's gonna 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.880 be me, you know, well engine that could the one 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.320 that everyone thought like, Eh, she's not going to go far, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.120 and I'll go all the way to the end. I actually, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.280 somewhere deep down believe like I could do this. I 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.640 really can. But I definitely thought we would be there 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.800 a little bit longer. There there is a lot of talent. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.280 There's a lot of athletes in the competition, a lot 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.520 of people with a lot of training in the competition. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.160 It's a tough season. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.200 You know, it is not an even playing field at all. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:07.840 It just isn't. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:13.240 I mean, they put Olympians against people who have never 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.160 moved their bodies. And by the way, it's not even 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.240 just about the physicality and the stamina and you know, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.680 the discipline that these Olympians bring to the table, but 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.640 they're also used to performing in front of millions of people, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.360 like they have such an edge over everybody else. And 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.840 again I thought they were great, but I just don't 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:38.360 think that how do you vote and take into consideration 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:38.840 all of that. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.280 There's just no way to do it. Nobody's equal on 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.600 that show. Sorry, I'm a little bitter. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.000 I know. Both weeks the bottom three it was, you know, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:56.320 me and Reginald and Eric, and Reginald and Eric are 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.760 have such amazing spirits for what they're doing, but they do, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.680 you know, have physical disabilities that they've talked about and 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:12.000 limitations what they can do physically. I mean, I guess 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.240 we all do. But yeah, it's definitely not an even 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:21.800 playing field. Yes, you know, physically, Reginald and Eric because 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.760 of physical reasons, can't do moves that you know, like 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.800 an olympian can do. And they're fine physically, so therefore, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:32.680 you know, the wow factor is going to be there 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.320 with the Olympian and you know, then there's me. I'm 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.520 somewhere just in the middle, you know. But yeah, I 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:43.159 guess I'd rather be first and last. No, well I 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:55.760 went home first. That's still like top billing, right, So 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:00.440 I got to say, you know, here's the feeling, here's 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.320 the exact feeling. When they're calling out the safe couples. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:10.000 Is super excitement because you're like, yes, that's my friend, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.120 They're awesome, cool, they're safe. And then it keeps going, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.360 so you're happy and you hear everyone's name, so you're 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.840 like yes, yes, But the same time, also in your head, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.520 you're like, okay, the numbers are getting less and less, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.639 less and less, And I think I turned around a 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.960 couple times just to do an obvious like site check 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.399 and like, oh yeah, yeah, it's dwindling down here, we 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:37.480 are still here, and then boom it's you know, on stage, 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:43.719 me Anna and Reginald, and I spaced for a second 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.240 that it was a double elimination. I'm not gonna lie, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.880 you know. I think I think Anna has a lot 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.840 of potential, and I think she this week, you know, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.439 she was starting to smile, which I know Ezra was 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.840 really like hearing her towards and she was starting to 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.120 have more fun and she has beautiful lines. I think 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.159 she could be a beautiful dancer. But you know, she 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.760 has a lot up against her with the public opinion 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.040 of her. So it wasn't shocking to me that Anna 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.680 was in the bottom three because I'm thinking, Okay, her 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:26.399 scores are dance based and they're getting better fan base. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.600 I have nothing to compare it to. All I know is, 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.640 you know, I saw inventing Anna and then I met 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:38.200 the real human, and she and I have become unlikely friends. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.760 You know, you know, you hear everything and then you 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.119 meet this person, You're like, she's very kind to me, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.880 She's nice. I had a great experience with her. I 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.359 like her. And this is me saying this, taking everything 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.159 that's been written about her, everything that is that she 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.840 has done. It's just as a human. I liked the 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.800 human and I took everything else away. And I'm like 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.120 that with people. Though I'm not a judgy person, I'm 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.480 able to get to know the person based on what 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.400 I know of them, not what others know of them 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.800 or hearsay people have based stuff on me my whole life. Obviously, 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.720 she and I it's very different playing field here with 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.879 what I'm kind of skirting around the issue. I'm skirting 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.920 around here, and in probably not an eloquent way. I'm 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.919 very tired of her last night. But what I'm the 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:34.960 point I'm getting to is I wasn't shocked that she 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.560 was eliminated. I probably I figured she would be, which 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:44.359 you know, if it was all based on performance and 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:49.360 people getting better and achieving something through dance through this experience, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.399 celebrities building, which was what I think it should be. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.720 I thought, you know, she should stay and she's getting better, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.399 but the public's voting, so I'm like, she's going to 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.760 go first. But you know, then it's me and Reginald 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:08.000 and I'm like, oh boy, I love Reggie. So I mean, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.399 obviously I grew up watching Family Matter's huge fan. But 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:15.680 I did one of my first TV movies with Reggie 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.959 and we filmed in South Carolina and it was like 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.240 the second time I think I had ever been away 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:26.720 from LA and we became really good friends. He was 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.359 like a father figure, but more than that a friend. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.280 We did this TV movie. It was me Patrick Muldoon 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.359 and Reggie in nineteen ninety six, so I was on 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.879 Nino two and zero and dadle Bursews. I think it 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.840 originally aired on NBC and it did South Carolina and 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:50.960 we filmed there for a month and had such a 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:56.840 great experience and I just had such like such a 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:02.080 wonderful friendship with him that off and on through the 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.200 years we would see each other and then he'd be like, 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.840 Oh my gosh, and you're married now and you have babies, 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.399 and you know, it was like off and on we 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.159 would run into each other, and so being there with 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:16.240 him through this experience, he was like initially when I 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.639 first came into it, I was like Reggie because I 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:21.439 was like, oh my gosh. You know, it was a 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:27.399 safe place, and you know, I championed him because you know, 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.000 he has physical disabilities at this point, I think he's 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:35.199 seventy two years old, and you know, he has a 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:39.440 hard time walking and doing and he went out there, 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.760 but he is a champion and his spirit and his 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.639 drive and he would come to rehearsals every day being 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.560 so optimistic. So we would just always like hold hands 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.719 and just love on each other. And so I was like, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:59.600 oh man, but I did think, you know, because he's 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.760 limited and what he can do, and he's doing such 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.520 a great job. But I didn't think it would be me, 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.520 you know. I thought, Okay, well that bums me out. 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:14.320 But Reggie probably knows, you know, this is his time, 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:16.280 and he did amazing two weeks. 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.200 Everybody in the world thinking that. 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:23.399 And Emma Slater, who's his pro, is also personally a 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.879 friend of mine, and I've known her for a while 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:31.240 and she is just the loveliest human. And when Pasha 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:33.520 and I'd be rehearsing sometimes we would hear them in 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:37.200 the next dance studio and you would just hear Emma 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.400 going yeah, Reggie, and like she was such his champion 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:44.560 and getting him out of his comfort zone. And he 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:47.320 and I talked backstage before this performance last night, and 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.480 he was like, this is the hardest thing I have 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.600 ever done in my entire career. I was like, dang, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:24:01.440 Samorage Dame. So anyway, yeah, I remember that moment and 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:04.800 I looked back over my shoulder and there was Reggie, 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.600 and we locked eyes and we smiled at each other, 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:11.840 and I thought, Okay, he's probably at peace with this, 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.200 like he knows that it's gonna be him and he's 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:18.680 okay with it. And then they said his name, and 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:23.199 for a split second, I heard Reggie and I forgot 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:26.159 it was a double elimination, and I was like in 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.160 the moment, I was like, oh, they just said Reggie's 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.760 Name's going home? And I spaced out, and then it 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:39.360 hit me, Oh my gosh, Reggie's safe. Reggie's not going home. 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:45.720 It's me. It's me and Anna. Oh no, it's double elimination. Oh. 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:50.080 And then it just like hits you, but you don't 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:54.040 have time for it to hate you, because then they're like, oh, okay, 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:59.280 you know Julian and a fonsor there, and it's time 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:02.840 to like say your goodbyes and oh my what And 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:06.199 it's like you just want to say, wait, wait, time out, 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:10.000 time out. Can we can freeze frame? Can I go 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:14.840 in for a moment and just be like, what just happened? 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:18.399 My brain is not processing it. Give me one second 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:22.320 for my brain to be like, oh, Reggie's safe. It's 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:26.000 double elimination. Anna and I are eliminated. I'm going home. 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:30.359 And then okay, proceed. But you don't have that second. 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:33.040 It's just like boom, you go into it. And I 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:35.399 just was like, oh my gosh. I looked at Pasha 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.840 and then as I'm making my way to say my 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.880 goodbyes and everything, I'm like, God, I watch every show. 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:46.560 I watch every season. I know how this works. You 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:50.119 know you're gonna say goodbye, everyone's gonna come out and 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.879 hug you, and it's like, oh, man, I was just 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:57.640 looking at Pasha, and I was just I felt sad. 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.240 I was like, oh, he take me out of this 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.720 for a second. He doesn't deserve to go home. He 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:06.880 deserved to go all the way with someone that could 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:09.920 go all the way with him. And I got bummed 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.760 because I remember when I came into this being like, 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.960 you know, Tory and like doubting myself when I first 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:19.600 started this, and being like, oh god, poor Pasha. He 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:22.920 got stuck with me, and that all came flooding back. 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:25.240 But I didn't feel like, oh he got stuck with me. 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:27.840 I felt like, oh, you know what, we had a 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:30.320