‘I couldn’t move…’: DWTS fan-favorite rushed to hospital just hours before live show — actress breaks down in tears after terrifying rib injury leaves her ‘devastated’ and forced to miss Halloween performance… - suong
A DANCING with the Stars favorite contestant has been rushed to the hospital after suffering an injury hours before the live show.
Elaine Hendrix was noticeably missing from the ballroom on Tuesday night, and host Alfonso Ribeiro addressed her absence right away.
He revealed that the actress experienced a scary injury earlier that morning while rehearsing for the show.
She was taken to the hospital for treatment and was already cleared by her doctors to return to the competition soon.
Footage from the incident showed Elaine in tears on the DWTS stage, clearly in pain.
Her partner, Alan Bersten, was seen consoling the Parent Trap star, who was visibly upset about the ordeal before being carted off on a stretcher.
Alfonso encouraged fans to vote, as Elaine is still in the running and was judged on her last full rehearsal.
She and Alan, who held down the fort in Elaine’s absence, received scores of 8 across the board.
Elaine was a frontrunner in the competition and earned her highest scores ever during last week’s Wicked Night.
She was supposed to perform an Argentine tango to the song Bad to the Bone during this week’s Halloween Night.
Elaine revealed in an Instagram post that she was “devastated” to have to sit out the night’s show and hoped to be back next week.
“Halloween is my favorite, and I’m devastated,” Elaine wrote alongside a video of her lying in a hospital bed.
“I was beyond excited to share what we had worked so hard on, although you’ll see a version of it. With your support, I’ll be back in the ballroom next week. I want nothing more,” the 54-year-old continued.
Elaine also explained her injury in the clip, saying she hurt her ribs during last week’s performance and they “seized up” while rehearsing this morning and she “couldn’t move.”
However, the TV star said her doctors assured her she should be back on the dance floor after a couple of days of rest.
Fans shared their well-wishes for Elaine and prayed for a quick recovery.
“We are here cheering for you, Elaine!! I believe your recovery will be smooth and quick!! Sending tons of love your way,” one person wrote in the comments of Elaine’s Instagram post.
“Praying for u Elaine already voted,” said another.
“Wishing you a speedy recovery! We’ll miss not seeing you in the ballroom tonight but love ok forward to seeing you next week,” added a third.
“We got you! We love you!! Get rest, we’re gonna make sure you’re through!” chimed in a fourth.
Elaine is one of six celebrity contestants left in this season’s competition, which began with 14.
This week was a tough one for many of the contestants, as Dylan Efron also suffered an injury during rehearsals.
The Traitors champ revealed earlier this week that his partner, Daniella Karagach, accidentally broke his nose during a late-night practice.
The U.S. Sun exclusively learned from a production insider that Dylan was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment and was cleared to dance shortly after.
Melissa Gorga Reveals 'Nightmare' Experience on Wife Swap: Real Housewives Edition trucc
Find out what sent RHONJ's Melissa Gorga into "sensory overload" on Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition.
After jetting off to Georgia for Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition, Melissa Gorga instantly clocked some things that would never fly in her Garden State home.
As part of the social experiment, the perfectionist mom from The Real Housewives of New Jersey first stepped outside her comfort zone and adopted swap counterpart Michelle Clark's more free-flowing lifestyle, including lax rules for her three children (Sean Jr., 8, Phoenix, 7, and Maverick, 3), as well as a an emphasis on quality family time over household cleaning and organization.
After helping prepare a vegan meal for the kids — while she begrudgingly joined swap husband Sean Clark in a juice cleanse — Melissa encountered one of the experience's biggest challenges: going to bed with dirty dishes still in the kitchen sink.
Though Sean insisted they could just clean up later, Melissa still asked, "Really? Are you sure? I'm in sensory overload."
As the RHONJ 'Wife further declared to a producer, "Oh my god, this is my nightmare. I am in a different world right now. Like, we're just gonna go to bed and leave that all in the sink right now? None of what goes on in this house goes on in mine."
Melissa Gorga reflects on her Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition experience
Melissa noted that she joined Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition to learn "to just let some things go," after husband Joe Gorga said that her rigidity in their Franklin Lakes, N.J. home was "too much" to handle, at times. Post-filming, she opened up about the experience and what she learned in the process in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dish.
Referring to the Clark kids as "the sweetest, most polite, amazing children," the real-life mom to Antonia, 20, Gino, 18, and Joey Gorga, 15, said she "couldn't have gotten luckier" to be paired with the East Point, Georgia-based family. That's at least partly because seeing Sean's hands-on approach to fatherhood taught Melissa a valuable parenting lesson.
"Everything was a learning experience," she elaborated. "I'm like, wow, I spent a lot of time with my kids, but I don't make everything a learning experience when it really could be. ... So, I think just with motherhood, it gave me a lot of insight."
Though she still keeps her house "spotless," nowadays, Melissa "for sure" channels her swap husband when faced with parenting challenges. She added, "When something happens with my children, I think, like, 'What would Sean do? What would Sean have a conversation about right now?'"
Having introduced more structure and organization into the Clark family's highly intertwined lives on the show, Melissa, in turn, also hoped that she taught Sean and Michelle a thing or two about the importance of taking some alone time amid their daily "grind" as well.
"Divide and conquer does work," she remarked. "And you can think a little bit when you have some time on your own and you're not together 24/7."
Where Melissa Gorga stands with her Wife Swap family now
Even after filming wrapped, Melissa said she stayed in touch with the Clark family — and is still in close contact with them today.
"I talk to them all the time," she revealed. "They're an amazing family. They're trying to come out to New Jersey to hang out with us. They're originally from New York, so when they come to visit their family, we're going to see them."
After Melissa stepped in to finish off the couple's 10-day cleanse — and Michelle whipped up some healthy beverages for the Gorgas back in Jersey — on Wife Swap's Oct. 28 episode, the Clarks even shipped her an appropriate gift.
As Melissa further shared, "They sent me the most amazing juicer recently."
