Dance Moms' Cast Wanted to Take Back the 'Narrative' With 'Healing' Reunion

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00:00I feel like it's been a long time coming. I mean, we've talked about doing the

00:04reunion for years, but there's never been a time where we were all free and

00:09available and willing to do it. Yeah, it's been what, a decade since we

00:15left? I think everyone had to heal in their own way and it's, we've all had

00:19time to process, so now it's kind of nice to rekindle and talk about that and have

00:24that kind of therapeutic moment.

00:28I would say having to revisit a lot of memories that I've locked away, because a

00:34lot of them are trauma or something that I don't want to talk about, so I think

00:38that's the hardest part. And I think we can all say it was physically and

00:42mentally draining after filming it. I mean, as much as we had fun, obviously it

00:47was really hard to have to look back on your childhood and be like, wow, that was

00:50not a normal childhood. The most daunting part, I think, was as much as we knew

00:57what we were gonna be watching and what we're gonna be seeing, it also was kind

01:02of like the unknown of what, you know, we were gonna be seeing, because I haven't

01:07really watched anything. Yeah, no, we've only seen the trailer. Yeah, I mean, well

01:11no, not that, but I'm saying from the show. Oh. Like, I haven't really watched

01:15the show, like, from when I was a kid, so to go back and kind of see everything, I

01:20just didn't know how I was gonna react or how everybody was going to react, so

01:25it was just kind of like an unknown feeling of what we were gonna be seeing.

01:29Yeah, like the clips that they would show us, or the moments that they wanted us to

01:32talk about, like, we didn't really get a big heads up, so we kind of had to

01:35prepare for anything. The worst. I mean, I think at first we were both very hesitant.

01:40Luckily we had each other, so it was like, if you do that, I'll do it, like, that

01:45kind of situation. You have to be extremely vulnerable to go and talk

01:49about these things, and they were things that have never been discussed before.

01:52It's kind of a chapter we closed, so to open that back up was a lot that we had

01:57to process and make sure we were ready and comfortable to open that back up.

02:01Yeah, so I, yeah, I guess I kind of, like, put it on the, like, yeah, closed it out,

02:08blocked it out of my mind, so I was like, okay, I have to go back and think about

02:12it and talk about it. Do I really want to do that? But I was like, it'll be healing,

02:16it'll be therapeutic, we should do it. And Chloe was saying this yesterday, but

02:21if we didn't go, like, people were just gonna talk about us regardless, so at

02:26least we can be there to speak up for ourselves and voice our opinion and how

02:30we felt and why we did what we did in those moments. Yeah, we never had a voice

02:34on the show, so I feel like to be able to say what we want and show the world who

02:38we are now was necessary because, like she said, if we didn't, they would have

02:43made their own narrative about us.