‘Red Table Talk’ Exclusive Preview: Cheryl Burke Admits ‘Love Equaled Abuse’ For Her In Past Relationships

Cheryl Burke is coming to the reddish table. In this EXCLUSIVE preview of the all-new occurrence of Red Table Talk, the DWTS champion gets candid astir her past relationships. Jada Pinkett Smith asks Cheryl if she’s ever confronted wherefore she mightiness person gotten into relationships with abusive men.

“For me, emotion equaled abuse. Love equaled infidelity. Love equaled manipulating, narcissistic behavior,” Cheryl admits. “I conscionable was not attracted to the bully guy.”

She continues, “I’ll ne'er hide my archetypal competitory creation partner. So sweet. I was truthful disgusted by however saccharine helium was. I was lone attracted to chauvinistic men.”

Renowned scientist Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble tells Cheryl that what she’s “gravitating to is what feels familiar.” Jada wonders if astir radical are looking to person relationships that are fixing trauma. “It feels similar home,” Cheryl says.

In a teaser for the episode, Cheryl revealed that she had a first-hand acquisition with home unit arsenic a teenager. “Not to get excessively graphic, but successful precocious schoolhouse — I’ll ne'er forget, the idiosyncratic I was with connected and disconnected for astir 4 years whipped maine with a belt,” she said successful the preview. “And I had bruises each implicit my legs.”

She added, “I retrieve his parents were watching it, didn’t bash anything. And it wasn’t similar helium was hitting me, helium was whipping me.”

Cheryl Burke connected ‘Red Table Talk.’ (Jordan Fisher)

During the November 2 episode, the Dancing With the Stars pro reveals the devastating ways past wounds person affected her relationships, opening up astir her caller divorcement and wherefore her 4 years of sobriety is “not casual close now.” Cheryl and ex-husband Matthew Lawrence split successful January 2022 aft astir 3 years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized successful September 2022.

Dr. Breland-Noble besides reveals the astonishing ways our puerility experiences power our big relationships. Plus, the occurrence volition present 2 couples who are moving to unwind traumatic bonds of their own. The caller occurrence of Red Table Talk volition watercourse connected November 2 astatine 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET connected Facebook Watch.