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Dance helps to keepCheryl Burkegoing.
“It’s my 26th season, I’m 98 years old,” Burke, 38, joked with reporters of her tenure on the ABC-turned-Disney+ series. “This has been for many reasons. It always goes back to how dancing has saved my life, whether that’s my sobriety or divorce.”
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“This show has definitely helped me take the mind off of the stuff that’s been really hard to deal with emotionally,” she said. “It makes me get out of bed, it makes me have a purpose in life regardless.”
Continuing to rave about the long-running series, Burke added: “It’s easier for me to say that if it wasn’t for a show like this, a family like this, I probably would be really upset and depressed, but this show is something I’ve grown up doing. It’s been a part of my life forever.”
“It’s also been different chapters of my life for every time I’ve done the show, whether that be a celebration of my engagement, or getting married, being a newlywed, now being newly divorced,” she concluded. “There’s one common denominator here, and it’sDancing with the Stars.”
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