Selma Blair’s ‘DWTS’ Castmates React To Her Sudden Exit: ‘Pure, Unadulterated Shock’

Selma Blair amazed everyone erstwhile she revealed during the unrecorded occurrence of Dancing With the Stars connected October 17 that she would beryllium exiting the amusement early owed to wellness concerns arsenic she continues to conflict multiple sclerosis. After the show, Selma told reporters, including HollywoodLife, that she “didn’t privation to leave” the show.

The histrion revealed during the occurrence that she had MRIs done and admitted that her assemblage “has taken a hit” since starting DWTS. “It’s mode excessively overmuch for the information of my bones. There’s conscionable intensive bony trauma and inflammation, among rips and tears, truthful I could bash extended harm that, of course, I bash not want,” she continued.

Selma Blair and Sasha Farber connected ‘DWTS.’ (Disney+)

Following the episode, Derek Hough praised Selma for her bravery and called her “the communicative of Dancing With the Stars play 31. I mean, rather simply put, and she inactive is. What she achieved successful the amusement was thing little than a occurrence and conscionable truthful sensational.” He called her exit “one of the astir beauteous sendoffs of Dancing With the Stars history.”

Wayne Brady admitted that helium was caught disconnected defender by Selma leaving. “It was shock. Pure, unadulterated shock,” Wayne said astir his reaction. “I heard thing astir it going into it, and she lights up this competition. When I said earlier that this is simply a precise quality show… Selma genuinely is the airy that we’ve each gravitated to. We’re each adjacent now, truthful it’s a loss.”

Selma was diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis successful 2018 aft years of having symptoms. “I americium disabled. I autumn sometimes. I driblet things. My representation is foggy. And my near broadside is asking for directions from a breached gps,” the histrion wrote connected Instagram erstwhile she announced her diagnosis. “But we are doing it. And I laughter and I don’t cognize precisely what I volition bash precisely but I volition bash my best.”

Emma Slater, who dances with Trevor Donovan, gushed that Selma “really is simply a airy to everybody. Derek said thing that was precise true. The constitution department, the wardrobe department, each section successful the amusement is touched by her. She has conscionable this highly affirmative energy, and she’s got clip for everyone. So seeing her permission astatine specified an aboriginal constituent of the contention is sad, but it’s 100% the close happening to do. She conscionable superseded each kinds of expectations. She got 40 from the judges, a lasting ovation, and she’s an implicit goddess. I deliberation her and Sasha unneurotic are the cleanable team. He did truthful good with her, and we’re each friends for beingness for sure.”

Selma Blair and Sasha Farber during their archetypal performance. (Disney+)

Joseph Baena noted that Selma has “such a lukewarm heart. It’s truthful bittersweet to spot her spell and it was precise affectional for everyone to spot her spell due to the fact that everyone loves hanging retired with her astatine rehearsals and everyplace astir the show.”

Selma was capable to creation 1 last regular astatine the extremity of the episode. She wowed with her touching waltz to “What The World Needs Now Is Love” by Andra Day. Selma and Sasha ended their DWTS tally with the archetypal cleanable people of the season.