Selma Blair Reveals Why Performing On ‘DWTS’ Blindfolded Was Actually ‘Comforting’ To Her

Selma Blair took her latest show to a full caller level by being blindfolded passim her Dancing With the Stars routine. Selma and Sasha Farber stunned during Bond Night with their rumba, which earned a 28 retired of 40 from the judges. The 50-year-old wasn’t intimidated whatsoever and said performing blindfolded felt “amazing.” She told reporters, including HollywoodLife aft the show, “Sasha’s ne'er acold from me, similar astatine all, but it was a mode to not person arsenic overmuch sensory overload successful my caput due to the fact that it’s breathtaking and there’s truthful overmuch going connected and radical moving, truthful it was a mode to buffer it.”

Selma Blair performed blindfolded connected ‘DWTS.’ (Disney+)

Sasha explained that helium noticed Selma would “close her eyes a lot” and consciousness “a disconnection from her encephalon to her assemblage connected the near side” owed to her aggregate sclerosis battle. “Learning steps for Selma is challenging successful the consciousness wherever I tin spot her assemblage effort to bash it, and I cognize that she tin bash it, but it’s similar the connection stops,” Sasha said. “And it doesn’t let it to happen, and she closes her eyes. So I recovered that she would ever beryllium comfy successful that situation, and I wanted to spot however this would assistance the performance. I retrieve putting it [the blindfold] connected her, and she had goosebumps.”

Selma admitted that being blindfolded allowed her to get “in my assemblage for the archetypal clip due to the fact that sometimes I fto a batch get me, and it’s similar you’re conscionable benignant of going done it successful a small spot of a blackout due to the fact that I’m not truly trained yet and performing with MS, too. Whenever I effort and absorption and truly get intention, I get a small spot of a postulation jam. The blindfold was an ingenious mode to adhd a spot of style, but besides a situation that was benignant of comforting to maine and brought maine person to my partner.”

Sasha pointed retired that there’s thing astir this ballroom dancing acquisition that is “really helping Selma with the MS.” Selma “absolutely” agreed with her partner. Sasha added, “I deliberation it’s a connection and a transportation of having idiosyncratic determination to power her, truthful there’s little interest and, yes, determination are times but it’s little due to the fact that she’s really moving. She’s dancing. She wouldn’t beryllium capable to bash it alone, but with idiosyncratic there, it truly does activate…” The Cruel Intentions prima finished, “It allows maine to propulsion done without quitting.

Selma has been unfastened astir her conflict with MS. The histrion has experienced MS symptoms since childhood, but she wasn’t officially diagnosed since 2018. “It felt similar giving birth. The merchandise of it. The catharsis of it. But much than anything, I was overwhelmed by a consciousness of relief,” Selma wrote of her diagnosis successful her memoir, Mean Baby.

Selma Blair and Sasha Farber aft their Bond Night performance. (Disney+)

The Legally Blonde prima besides revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she does “pass retired a lot” owed to her MS. She even fainted earlier rehearsal but inactive came to signifier anyway. “The happening is, I walk retired a lot,” Selma said. “It’s portion of the crushed I person Scout [her work dog] and it doesn’t mean I suffer consciousness [or] it’s a full ambulance experience, it’s thing that I suffer my vision, gravity pulls maine down and I’m precise disoriented and gone for a spell. He’s benignant of determination to besides drawback me, you know, marque the crushed a small person with his back.”

Selma and Sasha survived different elimination and volition beryllium taking connected Disney+ Night adjacent week. Charlie’s Angels alum Cheryl Ladd and Louis van Amstel were sent home successful week 3. Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays connected Disney+.