Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling an iHeartRadio podcast. So, DWTS, I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's ever been a contestant on Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars with the initials TS. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like it was made for me until it wasn't. So
Speaker 1: last night on Dancing with the Stars, it was my
Speaker 1: second week of dancing, and it was a double elimination,
Speaker 1: and I'll just cut to the chase. I went home,
Speaker 1: I went home, I got eliminated, And yeah, I'm still
Speaker 1: going to take that team name though, DWTS, I mean
Speaker 1: dancing with Tori Spelling. I mean, I'm gonna run with it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dance with it. I'm gonna run but all
Speaker 1: day and night long in my head now no longer
Speaker 1: in the ballroom. But what an unbelievable experience. This is
Speaker 1: all such a new territory for me, and I had
Speaker 1: such an incredible experience. There's so many things dancing through
Speaker 1: my head right now, you guys, so many thoughts, so
Speaker 1: many feelings. I guess the big word is just gratitude. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I loved every second of this experience. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Did I want to stay longer?
Speaker 2: Duh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to keep dancing, I wanted to keep
Speaker 1: living like that. The ballroom gave me such a new
Speaker 1: take on life and such joy that I wanted to
Speaker 1: keep going. I felt like I was just getting started.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's a reality TV show, that's the reality.
Speaker 1: You know, someone has to go home, there has to
Speaker 1: be eliminations, and you know, I became so close with everybody.
Speaker 1: I really didn't want anybody to go home. But I
Speaker 1: got to say, I have never been in a place
Speaker 1: where I felt It's funny it's a competition show, because
Speaker 1: I've felt zero competition with that family, Like there was
Speaker 1: nothing just support and love, unconditional love. And that's another
Speaker 1: huge takeaway that I'll leave this experience with. You know,
Speaker 1: you go through life different experiences in different places, whether
Speaker 1: it's work, personal life is one big social experiment, right
Speaker 1: and you never really truly know what you're going to
Speaker 1: get out of it till you experience the experiment. It
Speaker 1: was just such a loving atmosphere. So I will miss that.
Speaker 1: I made such great friends that I hope to stay
Speaker 1: in contact with. And I got to say, well, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to go home on my second dance, the
Speaker 1: dance I went out with was the song that means
Speaker 1: really everything to me. It was Oscar night and I
Speaker 1: danced to This is Me from the Greatest Showman. I
Speaker 1: had all five babies in the audience rooting me on.
Speaker 1: I had my best friend in life just there. My
Speaker 1: dear friend Gabrielle from nine O two and Ohero was there.
Speaker 1: It was magical. And this one was really for my kids,
Speaker 1: this song in this dance because it's our family anthem.
Speaker 1: This is Me. The Greatest Showman is our favorite movie.
Speaker 1: And when we were presented with the opportunity to dance
Speaker 1: to a song that made it with us from an
Speaker 1: Oscar nominated movie, I immediately was like, please, can I
Speaker 1: do Greatest Showmen because it just means so much to
Speaker 1: my kids and I. The Greatest Showman I know. Twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen is when we saw it, and it was one
Speaker 1: of those movies that we didn't see in the theater,
Speaker 1: and I remember when I saw the trailer thinking, oh huh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how that movie looks.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not like running to see it.
Speaker 1: The kids weren't like that excited, and it was one
Speaker 1: of those you know, sleeper movies for me, like it
Speaker 1: took off for everybody else, like it was a huge hit,
Speaker 1: but for us, we saw it on pay per view.
Speaker 1: I remember, I think we were we were at a
Speaker 1: hotel and we saw it for the first time, and
Speaker 1: it was kind of one of those things where we're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that movie came out and we didn't see it, and
Speaker 1: let's give it a try, you know, And we watched
Speaker 1: it and I just remember being like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it just it was a time in our lives. We
Speaker 1: were going through some hard personal things with our family,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, this movie resonates on such
Speaker 1: a deep level for so many reasons, and a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons I don't even speak about. I have publicly
Speaker 1: spoken about my kids going through bullying in their past,
Speaker 1: their school and social and specifically the song This Is
Speaker 1: Me was like, Oh, it just hit home. It hit
Speaker 1: home for me on a personal level, because you know,
Speaker 1: we all have been broken down, I think in life
Speaker 1: in one way or another, and it's so personal our
Speaker 1: own struggles and what personally breaks us. But I definitely
Speaker 1: felt that song and for my kids, you know, I
Speaker 1: remember thinking, Okay, they've been going through a lot with
Speaker 1: bullying in school, and several of my kids had it
Speaker 1: happened to them over and over again. And I know
Speaker 1: I'm not alone there. There's so many parents out there
Speaker 1: that have dealt with their children being bullied, and as
Speaker 1: a parent, it's such a hard thing to deal with
Speaker 1: because you just don't want us to happen to them.
Speaker 1: You never want to happen to your kids, even if
Speaker 1: it happened to you when you were young. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want it to happen to them. And babies
Speaker 1: come into this world so honest and pure and with
Speaker 1: so much self love, and slowly life things happen in
Speaker 1: life that breaks that love barrier down and makes us
Speaker 1: all feel less than we should ever feel, because we
Speaker 1: all should have self love and sometimes external things impact that.
Speaker 1: And as a parent, when you see it happen, you
Speaker 1: do your best to try to manage it and hope
Speaker 1: that it doesn't leave internal unseen scars. But you know
Speaker 1: it does because it happened to you, So you know
Speaker 1: that words can be I want to say, forgiven, but
Speaker 1: not forgotten, and they leave an internal imprint, a scar
Speaker 1: on you. And in some form, it's our scars that
Speaker 1: build us up to be a better version of ourselves
Speaker 1: because some of us wear them externally, some of us
Speaker 1: wear them internally, and it's how we choose to push
Speaker 1: past them. It's a silly thing. I always go back to,
Speaker 1: like scar tissue. Like if you've ever had gotten hurt
Speaker 1: and you have a scar and you have like that
Speaker 1: tough scar tissue and they say, oh, massage, you can
Speaker 1: break down scar tissue. You can. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: scars can be broken down. Takes a lot of work,
Speaker 1: and the internal ones are really hard to work on,
Speaker 1: and it takes a lot of perseverance and a lot
Speaker 1: of belief in yourself. And so anyway, I'm babbling, but
Speaker 1: this song This is Me really spoke to my kids
Speaker 1: on that level. And so we just made that our
Speaker 1: family anthem and internal external battles in life were going
Speaker 1: to keep going and you have to rise above it
Speaker 1: and pushed through it because that's the only thing you
Speaker 1: can do. You have to have hope in life and believe.
Speaker 1: And so anytime, you know, that was twenty eighteen, we
Speaker 1: saw that movie and that song spoke to us, and
Speaker 1: anytime my kids have had hard things in life, we
Speaker 1: go back to that song and We watched that movie
Speaker 1: literally in our house like once a month, and we
Speaker 1: sing it and we danced to it. And I mean
Speaker 1: the fact that I got to publicly do this amazing
Speaker 1: dance in this beautiful ballroom with unbelievable sets and lighting
Speaker 1: and just this beautiful choreography to this dance that was
Speaker 1: so personal and intimate with the most amazing, beautiful professional
Speaker 1: dancer that Pasha is, and he choreographed such a raw
Speaker 1: personal story in the dance, and I felt it so
Speaker 1: deeply in the fact that my kids got to be
Speaker 1: there and have this performance that really was just for
Speaker 1: them and for me, but the world got to see.
Speaker 1: It's pretty special. So I'm glad I went out on
Speaker 1: that song. That's all. That was a long way to
Speaker 1: get to what I was trying to say. But and
Speaker 1: just looking over at my kids in the audience and
Speaker 1: seeing the pride on their faces, that is something I
Speaker 1: don't know as a parent, you don't get to do often.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are our kids' best champions and cheerleaders
Speaker 1: through life as parents, but we don't always get the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have them be our biggest champions. And doing
Speaker 1: that dance and looking over and seeing my babies beaming
Speaker 1: from the audience. You know, I say I'm fearful of
Speaker 1: performing in front of an audience. In that moment, I
Speaker 1: looked over and there wasn't an audience of hundreds or
Speaker 1: millions watching live on a television screen. There were five.
Speaker 1: There were five people, and it was like I was
Speaker 1: doing a private dance just for them and just seeing
Speaker 1: them smile and cheering. And Pasha was like, did you
Speaker 1: see Liam, your oldest Like he was like yeah, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I did see it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So they were so proud and was I shocked that
Speaker 1: we were eliminated? I guess you can't be shocked. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's anyone's game, right, you can't control. I
Speaker 1: was happy with the judges, you know, I felt like
Speaker 1: I improved. I took their notes. Last week. I worked
Speaker 1: really hard to move past the timutory that Carrie Anne
Speaker 1: had called out, and I feel like I achieved that
Speaker 1: with this dance because I felt really confident when the dance,
Speaker 1: I felt really good about myself and I thought I
Speaker 1: could do right and I got to show off my flexibility.
Speaker 1: I'm really flexible, and I was like, that's my strong
Speaker 1: suit I got to do some moves and I don't know.
Speaker 1: They weren't easy. The choreography, it was challenging, and I
Speaker 1: worked through it and did it and owned it, and
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of that. But you know, you can't
Speaker 1: control how people vote. It's hard.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of amazing people on the show and
Speaker 1: a lot of fan faves.
Speaker 3: So I think it's an outrage.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I'm calling sixty minutes to do an investigation.
Speaker 1: Ruthan once an internal investigation to the votes. She thinks
Speaker 1: there was a glitch in the system.
Speaker 3: Definitely a glitch in the system. If airlines can be
Speaker 3: grounded from a glitch, there could have totally been a
Speaker 3: glitch in the voting for Tori.
Speaker 2: So I'm suspicious.
Speaker 1: I mean, politically, they asked for recount sometimes, right, can
Speaker 1: you do that in the ballroom? Ballroom recount?
Speaker 2: I don't these days? Sure? Sure you Gloria all read
Speaker 2: to do a press conference and say that a recount.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's a brilliant idea. I'm calling her
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll wait, Can you get her on the line.
Speaker 1: The funny part is we do a full dress rehearsal
Speaker 1: each week, full out and you know your dress, the music,
Speaker 1: you know, all special effects for your dance, boom, you
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: You go through the.
Speaker 1: Entire show full pass. Obviously, last week, no eliminations. This week,
Speaker 1: double elimination, so we did the mock one, you know,
Speaker 1: the faux one of so we all knew where we
Speaker 1: we would be standing, and they said, we're just doing
Speaker 1: a fake one. Anyone who's safe, anyone who is up,
Speaker 1: anyone who you know for elimination. Two couples will be eliminated.
Speaker 1: We're just going through the motions. We've randomly chosen them. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it meant nothing because you know, the fans hadn't even
Speaker 1: voted yet, the show hadn't gone live yet, we hadn't
Speaker 1: done the real performance. But the funny part is when
Speaker 1: we did the fake you know, dress rehearsal run through,
Speaker 1: they were like, okay, the first couple that is safe
Speaker 1: this week, and they called out Tori and Pasha, which
Speaker 1: is funny.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: I got to experience that, I got to experience being
Speaker 1: safe and the first one, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this feels good, you know, and we're like, you know,
Speaker 1: we ran backstage like okay, cool. So yeah, I didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, I always talk about my gut instinct and
Speaker 1: following my gut, and I really didn't have a gut
Speaker 1: instinct that we would be voted off. I listen, I'm
Speaker 1: a realist. I came into this with no dance experience,
Speaker 1: and I didn't expect to, you know, win the mirror Ball.
Speaker 1: He was like, what a cool underdog story if I
Speaker 1: like got better each week and just went forehead and
Speaker 1: like won that mirror Ball for Pasha who deserves it.
Speaker 1: He's so talented and he's never won a mirror Ball.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna be the one to
Speaker 1: get it because no one ever, they've never seen me
Speaker 1: coming but a dark horse in the competition. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be me, you know, well engine that could the one
Speaker 1: that everyone thought like, Eh, she's not going to go far,
Speaker 1: and I'll go all the way to the end. I actually,
Speaker 1: somewhere deep down believe like I could do this. I
Speaker 1: really can. But I definitely thought we would be there
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. There there is a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of athletes in the competition, a lot
Speaker 1: of people with a lot of training in the competition.
Speaker 1: It's a tough season.
Speaker 2: You know, it is not an even playing field at all.
Speaker 2: It just isn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, they put Olympians against people who have never
Speaker 3: moved their bodies. And by the way, it's not even
Speaker 3: just about the physicality and the stamina and you know,
Speaker 3: the discipline that these Olympians bring to the table, but
Speaker 3: they're also used to performing in front of millions of people,
Speaker 3: like they have such an edge over everybody else. And
Speaker 3: again I thought they were great, but I just don't
Speaker 3: think that how do you vote and take into consideration
Speaker 3: all of that.
Speaker 2: There's just no way to do it. Nobody's equal on
Speaker 2: that show. Sorry, I'm a little bitter.
Speaker 1: I know. Both weeks the bottom three it was, you know,
Speaker 1: me and Reginald and Eric, and Reginald and Eric are
Speaker 1: have such amazing spirits for what they're doing, but they do,
Speaker 1: you know, have physical disabilities that they've talked about and
Speaker 1: limitations what they can do physically. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: we all do. But yeah, it's definitely not an even
Speaker 1: playing field. Yes, you know, physically, Reginald and Eric because
Speaker 1: of physical reasons, can't do moves that you know, like
Speaker 1: an olympian can do. And they're fine physically, so therefore,
Speaker 1: you know, the wow factor is going to be there
Speaker 1: with the Olympian and you know, then there's me. I'm
Speaker 1: somewhere just in the middle, you know. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I'd rather be first and last. No, well I
Speaker 1: went home first. That's still like top billing, right, So
Speaker 1: I got to say, you know, here's the feeling, here's
Speaker 1: the exact feeling. When they're calling out the safe couples.
Speaker 1: Is super excitement because you're like, yes, that's my friend,
Speaker 1: They're awesome, cool, they're safe. And then it keeps going,
Speaker 1: so you're happy and you hear everyone's name, so you're
Speaker 1: like yes, yes, But the same time, also in your head,
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, the numbers are getting less and less,
Speaker 1: less and less, And I think I turned around a
Speaker 1: couple times just to do an obvious like site check
Speaker 1: and like, oh yeah, yeah, it's dwindling down here, we
Speaker 1: are still here, and then boom it's you know, on stage,
Speaker 1: me Anna and Reginald, and I spaced for a second
Speaker 1: that it was a double elimination. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I think Anna has a lot
Speaker 1: of potential, and I think she this week, you know,
Speaker 1: she was starting to smile, which I know Ezra was
Speaker 1: really like hearing her towards and she was starting to
Speaker 1: have more fun and she has beautiful lines. I think
Speaker 1: she could be a beautiful dancer. But you know, she
Speaker 1: has a lot up against her with the public opinion
Speaker 1: of her. So it wasn't shocking to me that Anna
Speaker 1: was in the bottom three because I'm thinking, Okay, her
Speaker 1: scores are dance based and they're getting better fan base.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to compare it to. All I know is,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw inventing Anna and then I met
Speaker 1: the real human, and she and I have become unlikely friends.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, you hear everything and then you
Speaker 1: meet this person, You're like, she's very kind to me,
Speaker 1: She's nice. I had a great experience with her. I
Speaker 1: like her. And this is me saying this, taking everything
Speaker 1: that's been written about her, everything that is that she
Speaker 1: has done. It's just as a human. I liked the
Speaker 1: human and I took everything else away. And I'm like
Speaker 1: that with people. Though I'm not a judgy person, I'm
Speaker 1: able to get to know the person based on what
Speaker 1: I know of them, not what others know of them
Speaker 1: or hearsay people have based stuff on me my whole life. Obviously,
Speaker 1: she and I it's very different playing field here with
Speaker 1: what I'm kind of skirting around the issue. I'm skirting
Speaker 1: around here, and in probably not an eloquent way. I'm
Speaker 1: very tired of her last night. But what I'm the
Speaker 1: point I'm getting to is I wasn't shocked that she
Speaker 1: was eliminated. I probably I figured she would be, which
Speaker 1: you know, if it was all based on performance and
Speaker 1: people getting better and achieving something through dance through this experience,
Speaker 1: celebrities building, which was what I think it should be.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, she should stay and she's getting better,
Speaker 1: but the public's voting, so I'm like, she's going to
Speaker 1: go first. But you know, then it's me and Reginald
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh boy, I love Reggie. So I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I grew up watching Family Matter's huge fan. But
Speaker 1: I did one of my first TV movies with Reggie
Speaker 1: and we filmed in South Carolina and it was like
Speaker 1: the second time I think I had ever been away
Speaker 1: from LA and we became really good friends. He was
Speaker 1: like a father figure, but more than that a friend.
Speaker 1: We did this TV movie. It was me Patrick Muldoon
Speaker 1: and Reggie in nineteen ninety six, so I was on
Speaker 1: Nino two and zero and dadle Bursews. I think it
Speaker 1: originally aired on NBC and it did South Carolina and
Speaker 1: we filmed there for a month and had such a
Speaker 1: great experience and I just had such like such a
Speaker 1: wonderful friendship with him that off and on through the
Speaker 1: years we would see each other and then he'd be like,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and you're married now and you have babies,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was like off and on we
Speaker 1: would run into each other, and so being there with
Speaker 1: him through this experience, he was like initially when I
Speaker 1: first came into it, I was like Reggie because I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: safe place, and you know, I championed him because you know,
Speaker 1: he has physical disabilities at this point, I think he's
Speaker 1: seventy two years old, and you know, he has a
Speaker 1: hard time walking and doing and he went out there,
Speaker 1: but he is a champion and his spirit and his
Speaker 1: drive and he would come to rehearsals every day being
Speaker 1: so optimistic. So we would just always like hold hands
Speaker 1: and just love on each other. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, but I did think, you know, because he's
Speaker 1: limited and what he can do, and he's doing such
Speaker 1: a great job. But I didn't think it would be me,
Speaker 1: you know. I thought, Okay, well that bums me out.
Speaker 1: But Reggie probably knows, you know, this is his time,
Speaker 1: and he did amazing two weeks.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the world thinking that.
Speaker 1: And Emma Slater, who's his pro, is also personally a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, and I've known her for a while
Speaker 1: and she is just the loveliest human. And when Pasha
Speaker 1: and I'd be rehearsing sometimes we would hear them in
Speaker 1: the next dance studio and you would just hear Emma
Speaker 1: going yeah, Reggie, and like she was such his champion
Speaker 1: and getting him out of his comfort zone. And he
Speaker 1: and I talked backstage before this performance last night, and
Speaker 1: he was like, this is the hardest thing I have
Speaker 1: ever done in my entire career. I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: Samorage Dame. So anyway, yeah, I remember that moment and
Speaker 1: I looked back over my shoulder and there was Reggie,
Speaker 1: and we locked eyes and we smiled at each other,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, he's probably at peace with this,
Speaker 1: like he knows that it's gonna be him and he's
Speaker 1: okay with it. And then they said his name, and
Speaker 1: for a split second, I heard Reggie and I forgot
Speaker 1: it was a double elimination, and I was like in
Speaker 1: the moment, I was like, oh, they just said Reggie's
Speaker 1: Name's going home? And I spaced out, and then it
Speaker 1: hit me, Oh my gosh, Reggie's safe. Reggie's not going home.
Speaker 1: It's me. It's me and Anna. Oh no, it's double elimination. Oh.
Speaker 1: And then it just like hits you, but you don't
Speaker 1: have time for it to hate you, because then they're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: you know Julian and a fonsor there, and it's time
Speaker 1: to like say your goodbyes and oh my what And
Speaker 1: it's like you just want to say, wait, wait, time out,
Speaker 1: time out. Can we can freeze frame? Can I go
Speaker 1: in for a moment and just be like, what just happened?
Speaker 1: My brain is not processing it. Give me one second
Speaker 1: for my brain to be like, oh, Reggie's safe. It's
Speaker 1: double elimination. Anna and I are eliminated. I'm going home.
Speaker 1: And then okay, proceed. But you don't have that second.
Speaker 1: It's just like boom, you go into it. And I
Speaker 1: just was like, oh my gosh. I looked at Pasha
Speaker 1: and then as I'm making my way to say my
Speaker 1: goodbyes and everything, I'm like, God, I watch every show.
Speaker 1: I watch every season. I know how this works. You
Speaker 1: know you're gonna say goodbye, everyone's gonna come out and
Speaker 1: hug you, and it's like, oh, man, I was just
Speaker 1: looking at Pasha, and I was just I felt sad.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he take me out of this
Speaker 1: for a second. He doesn't deserve to go home. He
Speaker 1: deserved to go all the way with someone that could
Speaker 1: go all the way with him. And I got bummed
Speaker 1: because I remember when I came into this being like,
Speaker 1: you know, Tory and like doubting myself when I first
Speaker 1: started this, and being like, oh god, poor Pasha. He
Speaker 1: got stuck with me, and that all came flooding back.
Speaker 1: But I didn't feel like, oh he got stuck with me.
Speaker 1: I felt like, oh, you know what, we had a
Speaker 1: great experience together. But I was super sad that he
Speaker 1: was going home because he's so talented and he had
Speaker 1: already been telling me next week is soul Train week
Speaker 1: and we were going to dance the Cha cha and
Speaker 1: our song was shake your groove thing iconic.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was going to have Daniella, our amazing wardrobe stylist,
Speaker 1: costume designer. Pasha's just like give me as many beads
Speaker 1: as possible, Daniella, I want her feeds. I was going
Speaker 1: to have this short. We had chosen gold. Gold was
Speaker 1: our thing, and Pasha had the rattest outfit they were
Speaker 1: going to design. Mister Kara was designing for him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: We're going to shake our group thing. It was going
Speaker 1: to be such a cool dance because we were going
Speaker 1: to do the chow chat. But but Pasha had already
Speaker 1: like told me he had choreographed in his head and
Speaker 1: was gonna we were going to have disco in there
Speaker 1: and like just a lot of cool moves and do
Speaker 1: it anyway.
Speaker 2: Why don't you guys just do it? Everybody's gonna want
Speaker 2: to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you guys want to see us do it anyway?
Speaker 3: I mean all of the comments are how you were robbed,
Speaker 3: how it is there was a glitch, how it's outraged,
Speaker 3: and I think everybody would love.
Speaker 2: To see that. I think that's such a great idea.
Speaker 2: I think you guys just film it and put it
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Oh, listeners, let us know, do you want Pasha and
Speaker 1: I keep dancing because we want to keep dancing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I heard I get to come back for the finale.
Speaker 1: They bring everyone back, so I'll be excited to come back,
Speaker 1: and I definitely want to go back to the ballroom
Speaker 1: and sit in the audience and chair on my family,
Speaker 1: my dance family. But it won't be the same. And
Speaker 1: it's like everyone's like, oh, you can just keep dancing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, but I just want to dance
Speaker 1: with this human, like you know when he's going to
Speaker 1: get a new partner next season and it'll be another celebrity,
Speaker 1: and god, I really hope he gets really I hope
Speaker 1: he gets an Olympian next next season with dance experience,
Speaker 1: Like an Olympian, a young Olympian with a dance background
Speaker 1: that's a TikTok star and has a parent that the
Speaker 1: older generation watched on TV or movies. Bingo. I'm going
Speaker 1: to put that out up there.
Speaker 2: Justice for Pasha. What's out there?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 1: I keep reading that justice for Tory and Pasha.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is that I keep thinking like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, everything comes full circle and everyone's like oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't fair. This isn't fair. And all I kept
Speaker 1: thinking is, oh my gosh, life imitates art. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: life imitates art. Donna Martin graduates the infamous episode, my
Speaker 1: iconic episode connected to Beverly Hills nine on two and zero.
Speaker 1: Donna Martin got drunken prom you know, they weren't gonna
Speaker 1: let her graduate. Everyone thought that's unfair, Like, okay, something happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not connected here, but the fact that
Speaker 1: everyone was like, it's not fair basically justice for Donna Martin.
Speaker 1: And they had to walk out the entire school. And
Speaker 1: I kept thinking my head like, oh my gosh, imagine
Speaker 1: like next week they go live and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're like, where is everyone? And no one is there.
Speaker 1: All the dancers, all the celebrities, all of the audience.
Speaker 1: They've just walked out, and they're walking around chanting. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: so it's not Donna Martin graduates. It would be tory spelling,
Speaker 1: as they're a dance word with eights gyrates. Is that
Speaker 1: it tory spelling gyrates or is that mean something else?
Speaker 2: I mean it's a movement, it's a body.
Speaker 1: Of the movement. We could do better but I imagine
Speaker 1: they all have signs and like everyone's like yeah, and
Speaker 1: then they're like one more time, justice for Tory and Pasha,
Speaker 1: and we come out and we do a chacha that
Speaker 1: just flays, and everyone's like, well, first time and Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Star's History Season thirty three. In the moment,
Speaker 1: ABC Disney Plus next day on Hulu, we have all
Speaker 1: decided we're gonna have a rebound couple, and they put
Speaker 1: us back in because we get a chacha that just
Speaker 1: gets all tends and they're like, I guess we gotta
Speaker 1: let him back in, all right, just do it just
Speaker 1: like I just show up next week. Yeah, I'm like
Speaker 1: I'm ready, and they're like, oh, she's lost. Oh honey,
Speaker 1: you got puoted off last week. Why are you here?
Speaker 2: You're like blocking your trailer. I can't take it away.
Speaker 2: I'm still on the show.
Speaker 1: So I've become friends with so many all of them
Speaker 1: on the show truly, but some of them, like we're
Speaker 1: really close. And I believe when we walked off, Chandler
Speaker 1: said to me because she and I come really close,
Speaker 1: and she said, oh my god, that would have been
Speaker 1: so good when they like handed the mic to you
Speaker 1: if because it was Oscar night. If you would come
Speaker 1: out with like a joke that like Moonlight, you know,
Speaker 1: they said La La land at the Oscars that it won,
Speaker 1: but it was really Moonlight. Warren Baby and Faye done away, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing that announcements, and they opened the envelope and
Speaker 1: said the wrong thing made the mistake. So technically like
Speaker 1: Alfonso and Julianne should have done it. Oh, that'd be
Speaker 1: a funny video to do it with them. I wonder
Speaker 1: if I could reach out to them and ask them
Speaker 1: I love them. Oh, we read it wrong. Sorry, Sorry
Speaker 1: it was Reginald. Sorry, Torri, Pasha, just kidding. You're safe.
Speaker 1: Go backstage, crazy kids, You're safe. You're gonna dance at
Speaker 1: the chat shot next week. Oh my gosh. Well if
Speaker 1: I could rewrite the story anyway. In the moment, I
Speaker 1: just was like looked over my kids. I could see
Speaker 1: their faces and I was just like, it's it's okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just wanted them to know how much I love them,
Speaker 1: how proud I am of them, and you know, this
Speaker 1: whole thing I did for them and I did for
Speaker 1: me and the transformation in me personally, mentally, physically, like
Speaker 1: the total package you guys, happened really fast. I can
Speaker 1: only imagine if I kept going, I would be like
Speaker 1: the best version of me ever Because if in only
Speaker 1: two performances I have come this far that I mean,
Speaker 1: I carry myself differently externally, like I stand up straight,
Speaker 1: I have good posture. I want to answer you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but mentally and emotionally it is like done. So I say,
Speaker 1: like ballroom is my therapy, it really is. And if
Speaker 1: I could make that much of a change, like I
Speaker 1: haven't made that change in fifty one years, Like and
Speaker 1: I've been to therapy like a gazillion times, and wow,
Speaker 1: imagine like two like it was like two therapy sessions basically,
Speaker 1: and I was like a changed woman. Like I can
Speaker 1: only imagine if I had like weeks and weeks and
Speaker 1: weeks of therapy. Ooh, it'd be great fallroom therapy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm taking from this is that it really
Speaker 1: it changed me. And the hardest part about when you
Speaker 1: change is not to fall backwards. And that's human, you know,
Speaker 1: we change leaps and bounds and then we slipped backwards
Speaker 1: and then we creep back and go for it. But
Speaker 1: I just want to keep going with who I've become
Speaker 1: because I like her.
Speaker 2: I like her a lot.
Speaker 1: She's rad she's great, and it it was an odd
Speaker 1: place that I found her. I found her on season
Speaker 1: thirty three Dancing with the Stars, and it's wild. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my takeaway from this definitely. And then I know
Speaker 1: I was so in the moment I didn't even hear
Speaker 1: them ask Anna, you know, I think I was just
Speaker 1: turned into Pasha, like hugging him or like we were
Speaker 1: in our moment that we didn't even hear. And they
Speaker 1: asked what she would take away from this experience, and
Speaker 1: she said nothing, which that's her sense of humor. Like,
Speaker 1: that's very unbrand. I feel like people were offended. It
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Dancing with the Stars. That's
Speaker 1: just she has a very dry sense of humor. And yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wish I wish I had heard it. Oh
Speaker 1: watch on TV anyway. Then everyone comes out and they're
Speaker 1: all like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, oh my gosh, and you're hugging all
Speaker 1: your friends, and I just remember Daniella Danny, who is
Speaker 1: Pasha's wife, who's dancing with Dwight, and she's been just
Speaker 1: it's been amazing becoming so close to her. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like you get the full package when you dance
Speaker 1: with Pasha or when you dance with Danny. They're just
Speaker 1: a team and talk about a couple goals. They are
Speaker 1: such an amazing couple. And she was like our biggest
Speaker 1: champion there like Danny was. Just so it was always her,
Speaker 1: you know, like the female perspective. You know, obviously Pasha
Speaker 1: can give me the male perspective. And he was always
Speaker 1: so great about He would joke that I got better
Speaker 1: as the weeks went on, but like he would say,
Speaker 1: it's like carrying a tray with glasses of water, you
Speaker 1: f you like balance them. That's me because you can't
Speaker 1: move too quickly. You gotta go slow sometimes and sometimes
Speaker 1: you can come in real confidently, like you know, so
Speaker 1: like because I'd be like panic about something and he'd
Speaker 1: be like it's fine, and he would talk me through
Speaker 1: it and I'd be like okay, okay, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, he just he got to know me so quickly.
Speaker 1: And someone asked last night on the press line, like
Speaker 1: what I'll miss working with him and doing and I
Speaker 1: was like, just having that connection because I can't believe
Speaker 1: in such a short amount of time, I said this, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I have best friends, I have family, I
Speaker 1: have personal relationships I've been in like this partnership, this
Speaker 1: dance partnership is so much more than a dance partnership.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had anyone in my lifetime
Speaker 1: get to know me and know me that quickly, Like
Speaker 1: it's insane to me how well he knows me, and
Speaker 1: that it's like a connection that you can't replicate, like
Speaker 1: you can't. I don't know. It was a connection that
Speaker 1: was meant to be, and I look forward to continuing
Speaker 1: a friendship with him in some sort of dance partnership.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, Danny, his wife came out
Speaker 1: and she like I just remember her running up to
Speaker 1: me and she just looked devastated, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but I hugged on my friends and I said,
Speaker 1: oh see soon, and I was like, oh it sucks, hey,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be human, I find say it sucks, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I handled it gracefully. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they cleared the ballroom and it's just gone.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gone. And I had this weird moment because when
Speaker 1: you're there in the inner workings of Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars and you know, like it's all like the back
Speaker 1: like they call it the breezeway, and it's all concrete
Speaker 1: and it's just huge set. And then you know the
Speaker 1: back breezeway before you go outside into the big studio lot.
Speaker 1: There's concrete floors everywhere and little like hallways and it's
Speaker 1: dark behind the set. Since all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: was just like people are always on you, like there's
Speaker 1: someone with you at all times because they're making sure
Speaker 1: you know, there's it's a well oiled machine. There's so
Speaker 1: many moving parts at all times, and timing is huge,
Speaker 1: whether it's rehearsal or on show day like everything, so
Speaker 1: there's always people like pulling you in a million different directions.
Speaker 1: And there was this one moment when it was all
Speaker 1: set and done that I was in the back and
Speaker 1: I'm going down this dark hallway, concrete everywhere, walled wall
Speaker 1: behind the set, and I looked over and it was
Speaker 1: just me and Anna and we're walking. There was no one.
Speaker 1: It's like, hello, guys, Wait, how do we get out?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna help us out. Wait, and I was
Speaker 1: like joking to her. I'm like, Anna, Yep, that's it.
Speaker 1: We're eliminated. Everyone's gone, they've left the building. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then Pasha and I had to do press, and
Speaker 1: it's so funny because there's a press line each week,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, are you okay to do press?
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, of course, like of course, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, like I want to be here for the
Speaker 1: show and support the show and support this journey and
Speaker 1: I'm happy. I had this amazing journey and it's assume,
Speaker 1: but I had a great journey and I want to
Speaker 1: do this with Pasha and be there, so of course
Speaker 1: I'll do press. And we were about to go do
Speaker 1: the press line and then my kids came backstage right
Speaker 1: before I went to do it, so and they as
Speaker 1: they're walking towards me, I just see all their little faces,
Speaker 1: little sad faces, and I said, no, it's okay. I said,
Speaker 1: you guys, it's okay. I said, don't be sad, don't
Speaker 1: be sad. It's okay. Well, and they're like, we're really
Speaker 1: we're bummed. We're really mad. It's not fair. And I
Speaker 1: said it's okay, though. This is life and this is
Speaker 1: the way it was supposed to play out. This is
Speaker 1: through I don't believe in coincidences. I believe everything happens
Speaker 1: for a reason. Everything happens in the right time and
Speaker 1: for some reason. And I don't know what it is yet,
Speaker 1: and we'll know some time in the future. We'll look
Speaker 1: back and be like, oh, that was supposed to happen
Speaker 1: at this time. This was my time to go home.
Speaker 1: And I said, but I got to have you guys
Speaker 1: here two weeks. This is the song I'm glad I
Speaker 1: went out on because this is our family song. And
Speaker 1: I did this for you guys, so I won. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to put the mirrorball somewhere in my house.
Speaker 1: I would have been super creative with it. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: like an acrylic box and like something she can like
Speaker 1: maybe like in a corner on a pedestal, like really nice.
Speaker 1: I don't know, with some malachite stone. I don't know something, huh.
Speaker 1: But I said, at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 1: the winner here. I won because I got to do
Speaker 1: this for you guys. And then I went did the
Speaker 1: press line and then we left and I said to
Speaker 1: Ruth Anne, I think I want a drink my kids
Speaker 1: went home. So we went back to the house. Everyone situated,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, because I have not had
Speaker 1: one drink. And I'm not a big drinker, you guys,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm a mom. I you know, I
Speaker 1: have wine or sometimes of vodka, soda like whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: a social drinker, let's say that. But during this process,
Speaker 1: I haven't had one drink. So and like what a month?
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have a drink tonight. Let's go have a drink.
Speaker 2: And then it was so late, right.
Speaker 1: Ruth Anne, we couldn't find anywhere open to find a drink.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, so, La, you know, there's certain cities
Speaker 1: that are alive at night, and you know, Tuesday night
Speaker 1: nothing's open late. But like, like, if you're in New York,
Speaker 1: say that never sleeps, you can get a drink anytime
Speaker 1: of the night. La, not so much. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in like Hollywood, you can. I live in
Speaker 1: the Valley, which I love, but it's a little sleepier.
Speaker 1: You know, everything closes, you know, if you want to
Speaker 1: get a meal, good luck if it's after nine, like
Speaker 1: it's things like that. So we were like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: try to find a drink.
Speaker 2: And we're on Yelp?
Speaker 1: Was it or we were on Google? You were googling.
Speaker 1: I was literally not knowing what to do. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't go out like at night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was gurgling to see like what his open establishment
Speaker 3: was open that was close by because we literally, you guys.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that late.
Speaker 2: It was like what it was like ten fifty.
Speaker 1: It was like ten forty five, ten fifty, and it
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, And I'm on Yelp and I
Speaker 1: put in bar current location open now. So she finds
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, there's an Irish pub open. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that. Okay, fine, let's go.
Speaker 2: Oh oh.
Speaker 1: First we tried to go to canteen and it was closed.
Speaker 1: I was literally and You're like, it's open. It says
Speaker 1: it's open. And I got out of the car and
Speaker 1: I walked around and like the shades were drawn like down,
Speaker 1: and I'm like knocking, like hello, hello, is anyone here?
Speaker 2: Your hair still done from dancing with the full on?
Speaker 1: Like knocking, nobody's there. So then we tried to find
Speaker 1: this JJ Sullivan's. We couldn't find it. But we did
Speaker 1: find one place that was open, and it's one of
Speaker 1: those like open concepts, so it's like no front and
Speaker 1: like it's on the street and you can go right in.
Speaker 1: And we see the bar, so we park, but Ruth
Speaker 1: fancies them putting the stools the bar stools up on
Speaker 1: the counter and she's like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Run.
Speaker 1: So so I'm like, okay, I always take a cue.
Speaker 1: I'm good at following direction, asked Pasha. So I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: So we like run and there's two people sitting at
Speaker 1: the bar and we run up and Rithian says, are
Speaker 1: you are you still open? Can we order a drink?
Speaker 1: And they said, I'm really sorry, we have no ice left.
Speaker 1: We put everything away like we can't and you, guys,
Speaker 1: I never I'm not this person. I never pulled the
Speaker 1: celebrity card, never pulled the Tory spelling card. This flew
Speaker 1: out of my mouth. I go, please, I was just
Speaker 1: eliminated from dancing with First.
Speaker 2: I need a drink.
Speaker 1: He looked at me and he goes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: He goes, my mom used to be a makeup artist
Speaker 1: on that show. Well, we have wine or beer? And
Speaker 1: I said, please, yes, we'll take wine. This lovely bartender
Speaker 1: served us a glass of rose, and then the two
Speaker 1: people that happened to be there are only two people
Speaker 1: left there sitting next to us, finishing their drinks. She
Speaker 1: turns to me and she goes, oh my god, honey.
Speaker 1: She gets up, this lovely woman. She goes, I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry you went home tonight. I haven't seen it. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Me and an Anna Delby we went home in double elimination.
Speaker 1: And she hugged me and she because you were so good.
Speaker 1: And she said, oh my god, I'm gonna watch it
Speaker 1: when I get home.
Speaker 2: And what did you do?
Speaker 1: And I said, I did the rumba and she goes,
Speaker 1: this woman ends up being a ballroom dancer.
Speaker 2: What are the chances.
Speaker 1: She and I end up doing rumba moves as I
Speaker 1: drink my rose. It was an amazing moment, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Well, if you're gonna go out, this
Speaker 1: is the way to go out.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we gotta go. Sixteen minutes. It was
Speaker 2: returning my call.
Speaker 1: Wait seriously,