Witney Carson was fighting her own battle during her debut season on "Dancing with the Stars." Carson, 28, shared with People magazine that she almost missed out on her "dream" opportunity when she discovered she was diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer, weeks before she was set to arrive in Los Angeles in 2014. "I finally got this call that was going to just skyrocket my career," she told the outlet. "It was my dream." "Dancing with the Stars" Witney Carson was diagnosed with melanoma cancer when she was 19. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer) Before she knew it, here world was turned upside down. "All of a sudden I get diagnosed with melanoma and, of course, being myself, I'm like, 'It's fine.
I can still go on the show,'" she said of the season she starred alongside Cody Simpson. The "DWTS" vet noted she was "embarrassed" to reveal her diagnosis because she wanted people to think she was healthy. "I think I was embarrassed only in the fact that I was an athlete and I was supposed to be encompassing everything healthy and fit.
I was supposed to be doing all the right things to be an athlete, and so it was embarrassing for me to be like, ‘Yes, I had, I was sick.
I was literally sick,'" she said. "The producers didn't know. My partner didn't know. I wanted people to think I was perfectly healthy." Witney Carson starred alongside Cody Simpson in her debut season in 2014. (Photo by Adam Taylor) To Carson, there was no way she was missing out on the opportunity, even if that meant she would dance before doctors cleared her. "I walk in my first day of rehearsals, I'm just going full force," Carson said. "The doctor has not cleared me for any active anything.
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