Cheryl Burke Says Matthew Lawrence Is the 1st Man She Dated Who Wasn’t ‘Abusive’
Cheryl Burke opened up about her “pattern of dating abusive men” before she married husband Matthew Lawrence.The Dancing With the Stars pro, 36, shared a video titled “My Experience With Abusive Relationships” to YouTube on Friday, December 11, and looked back on her troubled past.Burke, who has previously spoken out about being sexually abused as a child, admitted that she lost her virginity to her first boyfriend at the age of 13 and it set her into “a pattern of moving just way too fast” and not associating “sex with intimacy or love.”“It was something that I did because I felt like I had to, in a way, just to keep a boyfriend,” she said.“Even after I graduated high school and into my professional dancing career, I was still into those