Selma Blair Reveals When She Knew She Had to Leave ‘DWTS’ as Derek Hough Brainstorms Her Finale Return

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An abrupt end. Selma Blair detailed her decision to leave Dancing With the Stars after she exited the show during the Monday, October 17, episode.“I didn’t want to leave,” the Cruel Intentions star, 50, exclusively told Us Weekly after the show on Monday, adding that a doctor’s visit last week was the moment she “knew” she’d have to go. “I had an MRI on my knee, and the doctor was like, ‘Ugh, if you can choreograph it in the pool or do something, you know, not weight-bearing.'”The Legally Blonde actress hoped that she would improve before the episode, so she continued to monitor her symptoms. “I was like, ‘Oh, but maybe I feel better.

Let me check stuff, and then if that’s OK, then I’ll continue,'” Blair recalled to Us. “It wasn’t great, but nothing horrible.

But I was like, ‘Oh, OK. I’m not prepared for horrible, but [the idea of] leaving was horrible enough last week.’ I felt last week would be our last dance.

But I was like, ‘No, no way.'”During the October 10 episode, however, the Mean Baby author and her partner, Sasha Farber, were safe after dancing the quickstep to “The Muppet Show Theme” on Disney+ Night. Sam Champion and Cheryl Burke, meanwhile, went home after finishing in the bottom two alongside Trevor Donovan and Emma Slater.For Blair’s final number on Monday, she and Farber, 38, performed a waltz to Andra Day‘s cover of “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Contestants had been asked to choose a song released during the most memorable year of their life.