Cheryl Burke has a sophisticated relationship with Dancing With the Stars after 17 years of working as a professional dancer on the present. Throughout an look on Sharna Burgess, Brian Austin Inexperienced, and Randy Spelling‘s Outdated-Ish podcast, Burke opened up about how powerful it’s been to lose friendships with individuals she labored with on the present for thus lengthy.
“What actually hurts is when your previous costars and colleagues do interviews about you,” she admitted. Burgess, who can be not on the present after she stopped getting requested again following the delivery of her son, didn’t appear to have as harsh of a take. She performed satan’s advocate a bit, telling her pal, “We’ve all recognized one another for thus lengthy and we name it a household and it truly is, and there’s typically friction with household.”
Nevertheless, Burke mentioned she not felt that form of relationship with others who work on the present. “That’s the unhappiness, although. It was by no means a household, I suppose, for me,” she defined. “As a result of household … they don’t do this. They don’t abandon you when occasions are arduous, but additionally once you resolve to go away. What occurred to the household? A robust household is greater than ‘I really like you.’ Household is you’re caught collectively. Blood is thicker than water kind of factor. And that was the conclusion that was so painful, I believe.”
After her voluntary exit from DWTS in 2022, Burke started internet hosting the Intercourse, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast the place she mentioned the present. She usually obtained backlash for her seemingly adverse takes, though she’s insisted that her phrases had been usually taken out of context.
“When individuals label you as this adverse one that simply talks s**t in regards to the present, it’s form of such as you’re by no means going to alter their thoughts,” she informed Burgess. “I do really feel prefer it’s pure [that] individuals are likely to gravitate in direction of the adverse and that’s it. Whether or not it’s folks that work there and what they consider this podcast … I can by no means pressure anyone to take heed to it for them to get [all] the knowledge. They’re going to assume what they’re going to assume and I’ve to be OK with it.”
Burke didn’t deal with anybody by title in her newest interview. In October 2024, Maksim Chmerkovskiy was one of many former co-stars who slammed her for the Intercourse, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast, although. “I believe that Cheryl wants to sit down again and mirror on her stuff as a substitute of beginning a podcast that’s so vile and so soiled and so adverse,” he mentioned on Behind the Velvet Rope. “I believe Cheryl must do numerous soul looking out and numerous discovery. You’re not going to find your self sitting within the puddle of previous s**t. You’re not gonna transfer on. And he or she hasn’t.”
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In December 2024, Burke introduced that she was saying “farewell” to the podcast “for now.” After thanking her loyal listeners in her announcement, she addressed those that criticized the work she’d performed. “To anybody who might have misinterpreted this podcast or questioned my love for the present that formed me, I encourage you to take heed to the episodes,” she wrote. “My coronary heart has all the time been in the precise place, and I’ve seen so lots of your feedback affirming that. I’ll always remember the place I got here from, and my love for that chapter of my life won’t ever waver. Any adverse perceptions about me within the headlines couldn’t be farther from the reality. This podcast was all the time about reality, connection, and storytelling—not taking something down.”