WEBVTT - Danielle Dances! (Week 2) 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.759 Hello everyone. It's Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director and mom 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.520 of two, but forever known to most as Topanga from 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.440 the nineties family sitcom Boy Meets World. Currently, though, I 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.560 am competing on season thirty four of Dancing with the 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.080 Stars as one half of Team Topasha, and I am 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.560 having the time of my life, and throughout the journey, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.559 I'm going to keep you updated in the form of 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.560 this here podcast, Danielle with the Stars, all in hopes 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.120 of being one of the chosen few who wins a 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:56.320 Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy. So I have just completed 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.400 the press line for week two's live show was one 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:06.679 Hit Wonders Week. This week felt so different from the 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.440 first week. That first week we had three full weeks 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.399 of rehearsal, of getting to know each other, of getting 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.560 to know the other contestants, of spending time with the song, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.800 which of course I was already such a fan of, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.840 you Know Stronger by Kelly Clarkson, but still knowing a 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.600 song and having steps in your mind and choreography in 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.280 your mind that you can count to having three weeks 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.480 with it, you just really settle in and you feel comfortable, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:38.200 and even though my performance wasn't like you know, Tens, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:43.800 I felt really comfortable and confident. And then you do 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.920 the live show at the end of week one and 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.920 the next morning you're in and you're learning a totally 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.160 different dance. And in this case you really only have 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.640 about five days. You go from about three weeks of 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:03.840 time rehearsing to having five days because you rehearse Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.800 and then Monday is camera blocking. By the time you 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.359 get to this stage and you are camera blocking and 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.959 showing the cameras what you've got, not much is really 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.280 going to change. Your performance can be adjusted. You can 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.120 start amping things up on your face. You can remind 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.720 yourself to put your shoulders down, which apparently I am 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.600 not doing enough. You know, you can make little tweaks, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.800 but like you better be pretty locked in by the 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.000 time you get to Monday. On Saturday night, I left 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:39.320 rehearsal four hours of straight rehearsal, and I called Jensen 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.880 and I said, I am so far from where I 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.680 want to be with this dance. I don't feel comfortable, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.560 I'm making mistakes, I'm not able to perform because I'm 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.200 so in my head about the steps, and there's just 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.040 things that Pasha is saying to me that I want 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.560 to understand that like I see him do them, and 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.680 I'm like, yes, that looks nice and well done, and 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.000 I just try to replicate it and I can't, and 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.720 I was so nervous. I was like, this is Saturday night. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.960 I have to be ready to perform basically by Monday morning, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.440 and I'm nowhere near it. And then I went home. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:21.240 I did all my self care, body care stuff, icing, heating, EPSOM, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.360 salt bath, cold plunge, heating again, sleeping with my foot, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.640 elevated all the stuff I'm having to do. And I 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.000 woke up on Sunday and I showed up at rehearsal, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:37.280 and I swear overnight my brain just absorbed all of 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.400 the things Pasha had said to me the day before, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.200 all of the notes I wanted to give myself about 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.240 straightening my leg and what I wanted to do with 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.440 my energy through my fingertips and making sure my hips 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.200 were moving and pulling my toes back through my shoes 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.760 and all the things that I didn't feel like I 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.240 was doing on Saturday I was now doing on Sunday. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.560 And the difference between how I felt Saturday night and 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.680 how I felt Sunday night was Likeday night, I was like, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.560 I'm at about ninety percent, and that on Saturday I 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:08.000 was like at twenty. So it's pretty crazy, how just 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.600 thinking about something giving your brain a break and sleeping 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.760 if you just you know, if you just trust the process. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.559 I've been saying trust the Pasha, and Pasha now says 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.440 trust the process. So he really said that that is 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.560 exactly how it works. That when you only have five 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.480 days to learn a dance by Saturday, you're not going 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.720 to feel confident. And he said you may not ever 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.719 feel confident again the way you did the first week 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 because you just had more time with it. And so 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.320 nobody really ever goes out there after week one and 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.880 is like, yeah, I'm one hundred percent. I know what 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.800 I'm supposed to be doing. So it's very it's thrilling, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.520 it's kind of a roller coaster. You have to be 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.560 a bit of an adrenaline junkie to handle it. I man, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.880 I get out there though, and the live studio audience 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:02.760 just feeds my soul. I feel exactly like I did 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.960 doing Boy Meets World back in the nineties, exactly like 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.960 I did doing Girl Meets World. You just the audience 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.440 is there. You know you're there to entertain them. You 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.800 know they're there, You're there to make them have a 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.520 great time, and I just love it so much. With 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.160 that said, it's great that I can give a good 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.839 performance on show night, but I know that for Pasha. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.640 He explained this really well to me because I kept saying, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.440 why do I have to give one hundred percent five 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.680 times before the live show? I do camera blocking three times. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.840 You want one hundred percent for all three of those. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.400 Then on the actual tape day, we do two more 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.080 rehearsals in the morning. You want one hundred percent for those. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 Then we do a dress rehearsal. You want one hundred 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.320 percent of those. That's six full times of going a 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:56.040 hundred percent in your routine before you do it live 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.760 for the studio audience and millions of people watching on TV. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.800 As an actor from the time I was ten years old, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.680 we never give one hundred percent until you're rolling. That's 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.520 something you save because once you really deliver something, you 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.320 can't recapture it. You can't do it again. So I 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.480 really just one day when he was asking me to 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.800 really be going out, full out. In rehearsal, I said, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.719 I'm just can you explain it to me? Because I 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.960 want to do it for you, but it's going against 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.520 thirty years of training for me. Can you explain to 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.880 me why you want it a full out? And he said, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:36.480 unlike with acting, when you fully commit and you fully perform, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.320 and you turn it on and there's a brightness to 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.440 you and you've got an energy, everything about your physical 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.560 body also changes. You spin into me faster, you hit 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.479 lines differently, And he as a person who's guiding me 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.080 and coaching me through the dance, He's like, if I 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.280 need to whip you into a turn in order to 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.640 give you speed, I will do that, but if I 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.840 don't need to, and I think I need to because 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.960 during rehearsal you needed me to, but now in the 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.039 live show you don't. If I go to whip you 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.760 into a turn, I could actually screw up the dance 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.920 or I could make you look bad, and that's never 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.960 what I want to do. And I was like, right, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.440 our physical bodies are relying on each other to communicate 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.760 for the entire minute, and it's not like that in acting. Obviously, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.200 in acting, I give you a reaction or a response, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.160 and you just have to respond to it, and as 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.480 long as it's natural, you're accomplishing the goal. So hearing 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.280 him say that made perfectly good sense to me. It's 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.360 still very difficult for me to do. I want to 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.160 get better at it because I know that it's important 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.280 to him, and I'm just I'm struggling with it. I 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.960 don't you know, there is there. It is not even 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.119 something I can plan for. I can think I'm turning 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:50.720 it on, but then when there's a crowd there, it's 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.760 just totally different energy. So I don't know. I absolutely 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.800 love it, and I forgot how much I loved it, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.520 to be honest. We had two eliminations tonight, double elimination, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.800 which made the competition aspect of this feel very real. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.640 Up until this point, it has just felt like we 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.320 were all on a journey to dance our hearts out 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.120 every week and to be there celebrating each other and 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.760 supporting each other. We said goodbye to Corey Feldman and 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.680 his partner Jenna Johnson, and we said goodbye to Baron 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:28.400 Davis and his partner Britt Stewart. I am very, in particular, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.760 very sad to see Baron go. Baron and I have 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:36.160 become very close. We're close in age. I know how 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:41.560 hard he's working, I know how badly he wanted to 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:48.520 perform the way he wanted to for brit and it's hard. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.440 It's hard to say goodbye to people. It just felt 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.719 very real tonight, and we Pasha and I were the 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.880 first names to be called as being safe, which was 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.679 obviously such a relief. But then I had to stand 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.800 back there and wait and see who was gone. And 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.320 I ran out the second I could and gave Baron 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.080 a big hug, and I told him he's stuck with 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.600 me because he made the terrible mistake of giving me 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.800 his phone number, and so now he's stuck with me. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:31.559 So I'm sad about him, especially being gone. I did 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.960 the Cha Cha tonight. It was a total departure from 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.120 Week one with the tango week one, even though I 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.080 didn't do the tango super intense, it is a more 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.959 intense dance. But I figured Week one was my opportunity 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.120 to show a little bit of my personality and who 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.240 I am to America, and so there may have been 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.320 bigger smiles than you would normally see during a tango, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.600 but I was honestly just having so much fun. I 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.000 could barely contain it. This cha cha this week, Pasha 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.880 was like, let's show a completely different side of your personality. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.439 Let's turn the sexy meter up, let's turn the flirty 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.560 meter up, and let's just really go for it. I 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:15.040 can definitely say it has been a long time since 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.240 I have ever done something like that. But it was 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.000 really fun. And you know, I have always been a 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.839 person who's believed that like age isn't anything but a 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.800 number and all of that. But like when it's you, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.319 sometimes it feels different. Like I can look at other 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.840 people and be like, yes, you go, queen, like I 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.199 can be that person. But when it's me, I'm like, oh, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.400 come on, you know, you got two small kids and 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.600 you're in your mid forties, like settle down. But then 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.200 I got out there and I actually felt really good 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.360 about myself. I felt really good. It helps that, you know, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.040 the wardrobe here is amazing. We actually completely changed my 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.000 dress right before the live show. So this is my 0:10:54.520 --> 0:11:01.880 public apology to Daniella, the wardrobe master. Daniella wanted to 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.880 design this dress exactly like this with these straps. She said, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.000 your promo dress was a halter this. I want to 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.360 feel more clubby. I want to have these straps. And 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.440 I was like, yeah, that sounds great, and then I 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.360 slept on it and I woke up the next day 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.040 and I was like, you know, the dance is really sexy. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.880 I think a halter neckline is sexier. I want to 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.120 do a halter, And so I texted her. I said, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.480 I've been thinking about it and I really want to 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.920 do a halter. She was like, okay. I really liked 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.840 the first idea of us doing the straps and making 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.000 it more clubby, and I was like, let's go halter, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.920 and she said, okay, you got it. Then they made 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.960 it a halter, and then they had to rhinestone it 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.880 and fringe it, and the dress legitimately weighs seven to 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.120 ten pounds more than it did without all that stuff 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.160 on there, and with the fringe and all of that, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:56.760 the tiny little halter straps made the dress not fit well. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.640 Even though it fit perfectly in the fitting, it did 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.679 not fit well tonight and we did our dress rehearsal 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.320 and the dress felt like it was hanging on me. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.360 It felt very unsexy. I did the first dip that 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.720 we do and When I came up, the double sided 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.199 tape they had put to keep my dress down above 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.920 my bra was just out. My braw was showing, and 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.120 I was like, oh no, no, no, this is not 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.600 going to work. And so after dress rehearsal, I took 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.320 my dress off and I said, can you guys, I 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.880 need this thing yanked up about three inches and it 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.920 came back with the straps that she originally wanted to do. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.680 It also came back with some more rhinestones on the mesh. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.240 The dress originally didn't have any of these rhinestones. It's 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.520 so much prettier with the rhinestones. But literally they changed 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.920 the straps and the entire dress changed. And so I 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.560 just want you guys to know that they know what 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:57.000 they're doing and I should keep my mouth shut so 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.080 I will not be making that mistake again and I 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:05.080 will be apologized to Danielle tomorrow morning. Overall, I think 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.800 the dance tonight went very well. I did not have 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.920 great dress rehearsals, unlike last week where my dress rehearsals 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.559 went pretty well. My main dress rehearsal, I guess I 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.600 should say rehearsals went pretty well, and then the dress 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.840 rehearsal last week did not go great, but I thought 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.439 the overall performance went well. This week, I did not 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.800 have a single rehearsal that felt like they're nailed all 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.920 of those, And then tonight, other than that last little 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.640 sneaky trick, it felt like most of the things I 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.600 wanted to do I did. I feel really good about it. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.959 I Also, I think the thing I'm the most proud 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.680 of tonight is that Pasha and I did have that 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.440 little slip up with the last trick. We watched the 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.720 tape back to see what happened, and I released his 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.960 hip too early, like I'm holding onto him with my 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.000 arm while he's reaching for my other arm, and I 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.880 let go to early, so I was on the floor 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:02.760 and we just missed the handkin. So that's what happened. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.439 Of course, it was my fault. And when I came 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.240 into this, I said, I really just wanted to give 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.880 myself more grace. I'm you guys have heard me talk 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.920 about being a perfectionist, and I really just wanted to 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.640 have more fun. Honestly, even after it happened, I just laughed. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.520 It was just so funny and like the dance had 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.760 gone so well and then for that to kind of 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.520 be the last moment, and the way Pasha was like 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.160 determined to get me out between his legs, it was 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.240 like he was shoving a baby deer out of like 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.120 he was birthing a fawn. It was just so funny. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.080 And then immediately we walked off and we just started 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.600 making memes, just meme after meme after meme. You guys 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.400 are gonna be sick of the memes. I love making them. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.240 I woke up before this morning and started making the 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.600 memes and so we've already been hard at work with 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.760 the rest of them for tonight because they make me laugh. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.760 My body now that the adrenaline is out of my system, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:08.440 my body is very achy. So last week, during the tango, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.480 I was supposed to drop into a lunge at the 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.360 very end of the dance, and I did it a 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.280 bunch of times, but my quad got tired from all 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.880 the squatting, like all that, you know, squatting down, squating down, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.760 squatting down, and so without realizing it, in order to 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.600 give my quad a break, I started sliding with my 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.840 back foot my left foot. I started sliding into the 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.200 lunge so that my right leg could just drop down, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.840 my left leg would slide, but then in order to 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.080 not go into a split, I'd have to use my 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.800 right foot to grip the ground and therefore my hamstring 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.240 to grip the ground really tight so that I wouldn't 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.480 go into a split. And in that process, I snapped 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.160 attendant in my hamstring. I did not know that I 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:58.960 snapped attendant. I just thought, ow, that hurts. And then 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.920 I left rehearsal and I said, you know what, you 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.600 know what I need. Everyone keeps telling me to take 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.360 care of myself. I need a deep tissue massage so 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.800 that this sore hamstring feels better in the next couple 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.520 of days. So I went and had a ninety minute 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.400 deep tissue massage where someone used their elbow into my 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.000 torn hamstring. It was not comfortable in the moment, but 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:25.080 I thought, but it'll feel better later. And then, unbeknownst 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.520 to me, the medication that I am on for my cancer, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:33.800 meds to moxifin, can increase bruising and slow healing. So 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.040 I had the ninety minute deep tissue massage. I also 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.280 then had like a shockwave therapy called a piazzo, which 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.880 went really deep. Again, not knowing that my tomoxofin would 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.560 make me bruise, and within forty eight hours, I had 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.120 every single capillary from my upper inner thigh all the 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:58.200 way down to my calf had burst and it looked awful. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.360 The swelling got really bad, and I was it was 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.360 just kind of a mess. And I was still rehearsing 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.200 four hours a day, and I was now in hyperbaric oxygen, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.040 and I was in cryotherapy and I was cold plunging, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.160 and I was doing all of the things just trying 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.280 to bring down the inflammation. I went for an MRI, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:24.119 and the MRI determined that I had a pretty severe tear, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:29.199 and the radiologist who read the MRI actually said I 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:34.919 was definitely going to need surgery. And I kind of 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:41.440 panicked because the idea that anything was going to take 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.000 me out of this competition other than just not having 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.639 the votes was like just I couldn't even I couldn't 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.240 even fathom that I would have to drop out. I 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.000 was like, m mmm, they can take me out on 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:56.320 a stretcher. Otherwise, no way I'm sticking around. So I 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.720 met with an orthopedic surgeon who deals with a lot 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.800 of athletes, because girls an athlete. Now I don't know 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.119 if you know that, but I'm your girl. I'm an athlete. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.040 So I met with an orthopedic surgeon who works with 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.080 a lot of athletes, and he thankfully reviewed all of 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:16.200 my images and said, zero percent, I'm going to recommend surgery. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.919 There's just no reason you need to have surgery. With 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.879 that said, the only way you're going to start to 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.199 feel better is with rest. And he said, but I 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.240 understand that you want to stay in this competition that 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.880 you are having the time of your life. And when 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.920 athletes snap these tendons, and we you know they're in 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.200 the playoffs, we treat them like they're in the playoffs. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:35.800 So we're going to manage your pain. We're going to 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.360 make sure you get into c apt two to three 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.080 times a week. We're going to do all of that. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.880 So I am considering this Dancing with the Stars playoffs 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.040 and I'm doing everything I possibly can in order to 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.479 stay healthy and to stay well, and that as long 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.680 as you guys continue to vote for me, I'm going 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.000 to be here. I am not letting this stop me. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.680 So that's where we're at with the injury. And yeah, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.760 I did the cartwheel into splits. Uh, Pasha asked me 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.680 during week one. He was like, can you do a cartwheel? 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.159 And I said, well, I used to be able to 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:11.960 do a cartwheel. And I thought to myself, when was 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:13.919 the last time we did a cartwheel? And I was like, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.040 I was probably eight, like eight years old. I did 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.200 gymnastics for a couple of years before I started acting 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.359 at ten, so I knew that I used to know 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.840 how to do a cartwheel. And I just blindly said, yeah, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:26.840 if I could do it at eight, I could do 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.199 it at forty four. Why not. I said, yes, I 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.119 sure can. And he said, great, could you do a 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:32.840 cartweell with your left hand? And I said, you know 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.960 what's funny. I can only do a cartwheel with my 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:36.560 left hand. Have you ever tried to do a carwell 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.320 both ways? For some reason, I can't do it both ways, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:40.879 but I can do one with my left hand. So 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.439 I practiced that. I felt pretty confident. And then he 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.520 was like, how about the splits, And again I was like, 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.480 I could when I was eight. Man, if I could 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:48.600 do it when I was eight, I could do it 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.080 when I was forty four. So I started working on that. Thankfully, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.080 it needed to be a left handed cartwheel and it 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.080 needed to be a left legged split because let me 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.840 tell you, whichever leg is in front when you do 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:04.639 that splits, that's the one where your hamstring is taught. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:09.240 And so it would have been zero out of a 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.520 hundred that I could have done a right legged split, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.600 but I was able to do a left legged split 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.720 because of my injury. We took it real easy with 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.439 the cartwheel because that does definitely use my hamstring. We 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.080 took it easy with the cartwheel all week and then today, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.080 right down to the last second, Pasha was like, Danielle, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.480 it's four counts. I can change it if you don't 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.119 want to do it. I said, no, I want to 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:30.439 do it, and I did one, and I was like, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.840 I feel great. I think I've got this. Next week 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.920 we are dancing a fox trot, which is not going 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.960 to have any splits or any cartwheels. It's still going 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.639 to be wonderful and we're going to find ways to 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.840 make it really fun. But I'm going to consider it 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.439 a break for my right hamstring and I'm going to 0:20:49.119 --> 0:21:04.320 let it heal everyone this week, going into week two, 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.800 was was pretty stressed. You could see it on all 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.040 of our faces. We'd run into each other in the halls, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.520 and we'd say how's it going, and everyone be like 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.320 it's okay, it's okay. You know, first week everyone was 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.440 like how's it going? It was like great, we feel great. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.760 Isn't this amazing? And second week everyone's just like okay, yeah, yeah, 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:26.520 this came up real quick, even Robert, who you know. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.280 I saw him leaving his rehearsal. I mean, gosh, that 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.800 guy is a charmer, is he not? I just love 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:35.880 him so much. I saw him leaving camera blocking last 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:37.520 night and I said how did it go? And I 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.359 was expecting that he was just gonna be like, great, 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:41.920 we nailed it, and he was like, you know what, 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.920 it was okay, I feel like it could have been better. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.600 There's just some things I'm not nailing. And we talked 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:49.520 it out. We talked out. You know how much when 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.159 you sleep, it settles in, and we talked about what 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.159 he was going to go home and do, and you know, 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.080 sure enough, he just came out and absolutely killed it. Again. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.120 I don't think there's anything I can't do. And he's 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.760 also does every single thing with a smile on his face, 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.200 and he is a true gem of a human being. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.520 I love him forever. We had one hit Wonders Week, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.800 our song Rhythm of the Night. I absolutely love. I've 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.240 been a fan, I truly when I hear it, I 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.719 think of the year nineteen ninety four. I had been 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.120 on Boy Meets World for you know, a little less 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.400 than a year. My mom and I would drive back 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.119 and forth from Calabassis to Burbank and it would come 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:27.560 on the radio and we'd sing it at the top 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:32.720