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Cheryl Burkeis letting the tears flow.
This New Year’s Eve, the formerDancing with the Starspro may be crying — but not over the things she’s lost. Burke, 38, explained via TikTok on Wednesday why she’s expecting waterworks as the clock strikes midnight.
“When you see me crying at 11:59pm on NYE don’t think it’s because I’m sad. It’s because i fking MADE IT through the year that did everything it could to try and break me,” she wrote on the screen, which featured a video of Burke strutting backstage. “And there were a lot of moments I thought it would but here I AM.”
Burke announced herofficial retirement fromDWTSin November — 17 years after she first joined the show.
“I have beencrying nonstop,“she told PEOPLE at the time. “It has been very emotional. There [are] a lot of emotions and there’s lots of excitement, but there’s also lots of fear.”
She added in a chat withEntertainment Tonight: “What is up to me is my future, and I do know that it is time for me to evolve and see what else there is. Because there is life afterDancing with the Stars, so I’ve heard. I don’t know yet. I’ll let you know.”
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Burke also parted ways withMatthew Lawrence, her husband of three years, earlier this year. The divorce wasfinalized in September, though the couple are still resolvingwho will keep their shared dog, Ysabella.
Burke has often likened herDWTSexit to a divorce, telling PEOPLE: “At the end of the day, this is actually maybe another divorce in a way that I’m going through in one year.”
TheBoy Meets Worldalum still has yet to publicly comment on the split.
source: people.com
