The song Danielle Fishel and Pasha Pashkov danced to for their Dancing with the Stars Season 34 premiere has even more meaning behind it now. They did a terrific Tango to Kelly Clarkson’s Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You), and it turns out that she wowed us all while dealing with a pretty painful injury.
On a new episode of her podcast, Pod Meets World, Danielle opened up about her DWTS experience so far. She revealed, “So my hamstring actually has a minor tear.”
Danielle Fishel explains her injury and how she’s coping
“Right before I went out for the live show, after having gone all out for five other runs for dress rehearsal and practice, my legs really started getting tight and I was like, ‘What am I going to do?'” Danielle explained. ”And I kept trying to stretch a little bit, wasn’t really working. It was really cramping and then adrenaline just took over in the middle of the dance and I was able to do it.”
To help ease the hamstring pain, Danielle has been icing her leg and soaking it with Epsom salt.
While Boy Meets World fans are raving about her performance, that she claims she was able tp pulling off because “adrenaline kicked in,” she hasn’t watched it back yet.
“I still haven’t been able to watch it, so I don’t know exactly what it looked like,” Danielle confessed. “I know it felt good, I trust Pasha implicitly, I trust him with everything and he swears that this was the best performance we’ve ever done an we’ve now done it over 1000 times in the last couple of weeks.”
On to the next week on Dancing with the Stars: One-Hit Wonders Night
The first week’s theme was anthems, and that one hit the mark for Danielle and Pasha. They scored 12 out of 20 for the first night, with only two judges sharing scores as Carrie Ann Inaba was out. Next week is crucial, as someone will be going home. The theme is One-Hit Wonder Night, which should be a lot of fun.
Right now, the frontrunner seems to be Robert Irwin and his pro partner Witney Carson, who had the Dancing with the Stars audience on their feet at the end of his lively Jive to Steppenwolf’s Born to Be Wild, even though Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas’ Tango to Golden by HUNTR/X, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters tied Robert and Witney for the top spot on the leaderboard with a score of 15 out of 20.
Dancing with the Stars airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC and Disney+.
