Dancing With the Stars’ Elaine Hendrix Speaks Out on Hospitalization, Missing Halloween Episode
Elaine Hendrix is on the mend.
Hours before she was supposed to take the stage alongside her pro partner Alan Bersten for Dancing With the Stars‘ Halloween Night, the Parent Trap star was hospitalized during a dance rehearsal, forcing her to miss the Oct. 28 episode.
“I injured my ribs during ‘Defying Gravity’ and today they just seized up,” Elaine shared in a video posted to her Instagram. “I couldn’t move. They brought me to the hospital.”
And while the injury prevented her from entering the ballroom this week, the Dynasty alum insisted that she will recover in time to compete next week.
“The doctor has said that with a day or two of rest, I should be able to continue and that’s exactly what I want to do,” Elaine continued. “I want to dance, I want to keep doing this.”
Thanking Alan for “holding down the fort,” the 54-year-old went on to encourage her fans to vote for the pair this week using rehearsal footage that aired during the episode, showing them doing the Argentine tango to George Thorogood & The Destroyers‘ song “Bad to the Bone.” The practice earned them 8s across the board from the judges, which counts toward this week’s score.
