Dancing With the Stars” fan favorite Sherri Shepherd, who was sent home Tuesday night in the most-shocking elimination of the season, called the experience an “amazing adventure” and urged her fans to take risks and keep challenging themselves.
“If you don’t go towards the thing you fear, you won’t be able to say you lived. Even if you fail, I got voted off, I wanted the ride to continue, but I got to say, I did it,” Shepherd said today on “Good Morning America.” “The thing that you fear in your stomach … run towards it. I absolutely believe that.”
“The View” co-host, who had been a long-time fan of the ABC show and campaigned to be a contestant on season 14, said you can’t really understand “Dancing With the Stars” until you experience it yourself.
“It pushes you mentally and physically and it is a life-changing experience, I have to say,” Sheppard said. “So I have to say thank you. … I’m so grateful to God for the ride I got to take, the friendships I got to make, the people I get to keep in touch with.”
Shepherd had earned 21 points – the second-lowest score of the night – for her tango on Monday. Judges told her it wasn’t sharp enough and lacked her usual spark.
Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower were the other couple in danger of elimination, despite earning the second-highest scores on Monday night’s show.
Elimination in the competition results from a combination of judges’ scores and audience votes. The couple with lowest combined total goes home.
For Shepherd, who traveled back and forth from Los Angeles to New York to keep up with “The View” throughout the competition, all of the travel on top of the grueling rehearsal schedule was worth it.
“I’m a mother. Mothers multi-task. We’re used to doing more than one thing at once, so … I was in that mother mode,” she said about juggling it all during her four-week “Dancing” stint. “It wasn’t work to me. I loved ‘Dancing,’ that whole process, I love ‘The View,’ so when you’re living the dream, it’s not work.”
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