The actress also compared her experience on the dancing competition show to “The Hunger Games.”
I’ve had a baby."
Burke went even further.
Lea Thompson and Artem Chigvintsev on ‘Dancing With the Stars’.Adam Taylor/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“What is he talking about?”
“[Men] can’t even handle any pain whatsoever.”
A representative for Chigvintsev couldn’t be reached for immediate comment byEntertainment Weeklyvia phone or email Monday.
Neither Chigvinstev nor his wife, Nikki Garcia, have publicly spoken about the arrest.
Thompson and Chigvintsev also lacked a shared frame of reference when it came to dancing.
Although she trained in ballet for years when she was younger, he had only ever done ballroom.
“He was so intense.
It was so much more important to him than to me, honestly.
And so that made me really nervous.
Like, it made me crazy after a while…
He was implacable.”
Not all of Thompson’s challenges onDWTSstemmed from her pairing with Chigvintsev.
Last-minute changes from the TV production could also throw her off.
“Like one time, we were just about to shoot and Artem was wearing a powder blue coat.
EW has reached out toDancing With the Starsreps for comment on Thompson’s remarks.
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