Dancing With the Stars’ Elaine Hendrix Opens Up About Hospitalization and Missing Halloween Episode
Elaine Hendrix is on the mend.
Hours before she was supposed to take the stage alongside her professional partner Alan Bersten For Dancing with the stars‘On Halloween night, Parental trap The star was hospitalized during a dance rehearsal, forcing her to miss the October 28 episode.
“I injured my ribs during ‘Defying Gravity’ and today they seized up,” Elaine shared in a video posted to her Instagram. “I couldn’t move. They took me to the hospital.”
And even though her injury kept her out of the ballroom this week, the Dynasty one alumna insisted she would recover in time to compete next week.
“The doctor said that with a day or two of rest I should be able to continue and that’s exactly what I want to do,” Elaine continued. “I want to dance, I want to keep doing this.”
Thanking Alan for “holding down the fort”, the 54-year-old then encouraged her fans to vote for the pair this week using rehearsal footage shown during the episode, showing them performing the Argentine tango for George Thorogood and the Destroyers‘ song “Bad to the Bone”. The practice earned them 8s across the board from the judges, which counts toward this week’s score.
