Whitney Leavitt got emotional following her recent elimination from Dancing With the Stars season 34.
“I’m just gonna speak from the guts and share what I’m feeling. I share the nice, I share the bad, I share the ugly, so I’m just gonna keep doing that,” the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 32, said in a Thursday, November 20, TikTok video. “While you’re forged on Dancing With the Stars, you might be seeing these people [for] hours each day. Then it just stops. It genuinely appears like a breakup. It appears like I’m going through withdrawals straight away.”
Leavitt was eliminated from the ABC dance competition show throughout the Tuesday, November 18, episode. She and partner Mark Ballas, who were frontrunners on the judges’ leaderboard, were one week away from making it to the finale.
“Today just felt so weird. It felt so weird not going into the studio and meeting with Mark and learning a dance,” she continued while getting visibly upset. “It just felt weird and it made me sad.”
While fighting back tears, Leavitt shared that she got to “grow real friendships” and make “real connections” along with her fellow competitors.
“You learn a lot about yourself, and folks have uplifted you consistently,” she reflected. “And also you challenge yourself like you only feel so loved.”
On top of learning recent dances every week, Leavitt also shared her “key takeaways” from her time within the competition.
“It’s so vital to surround yourself with individuals who imagine in you, who need to see you achieve your delusional dreams, as cheesy as that sounds,” she said while crying. “Mark is that friend to me. I’ll perpetually be so grateful for that friendship.”
While Leavitt “loved acting on that stage” and “wearing the costumes” for her dances, she never thought she’d leave with such a powerful bond with Ballas.
“I loved every little bit of [the experience], however the one thing that I actually have loved probably the most that I wasn’t expecting was getting a lifelong friend,” she continued. “A friend who makes fart noises each day. I’m just so grateful.”
Leavitt concluded her video by sharing the identical sentiment that she did in her final episode.
“I really like you guys, I f***ing love this show,” she said.
Jordan Chiles, Robert Irwin, Alix Earle, Dylan Efron and Elaine Hendrix will compete for a probability to take home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy within the finale next week.
Leavitt’s exit from the show comes shortly after she revealed during a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3 confessional that she returned to the fact show simply to have a probability to audition for DWTS.
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, with recent episodes streaming the following day on Hulu.
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