Why Abby Lee Miller felt ‘like a whore’ on ‘Dance Moms’

nypost.com:

“Entertainment Tonight” showed Miller viral memes of herself so she could provide more context. In one instance, the outlet played an old clip of her crying and saying, “I feel like a whore.”“What the situation was is that the producers were asking me to do something, I didn’t want to do it,” Miller explained.She continued: “They said, ‘We’re not going to pay you, you’re going to be fined $80,000 or $10,000,’ And I said, ‘I’m not doing it.'” “They said, ‘Well, we’re going to fine you.’ So I probably did it, and I feel like a whore because I’m getting paid to do things I don’t want to do,” she added.The Post reached out to Lifetime, which airs “Dance Moms,” and Miller for comment.

The hit series premiered in 2011, following a group of moms whose kids were on a competition team at Miller’s dance company in Pittsburgh, called the Abby Lee Dance Company (ALDC).

Although Miller often discouraged the girls from crying, even after she yelled at them, she admitted to “ET” that she found herself tearing up many of the days they filmed.“I probably cried every day on set,” she said. “So I know that the producers used to really work me up.” Miller also claimed the producers wanted to “stir the pot” before she interacted with the moms and the students.“Dance Moms” came to a halt after eight seasons.

The final episode aired in September 2019, and nine months later, Miller was dogged by racism accusations in the wake of the George Floyd murder by Minneapolis police.In June 2020, Adriana Smith — whose daughter, Kamryn, filmed Season 8 — claimed Miller had made racist remarks.