Daniella Karagach Danced With 2 Fractured Heels on Last Season of 'DWTS'

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00:00Pasha, what was it like for you watching her go through that last season?

00:03Like you said, injured almost every other week and, you know, just your mind was there,

00:08but your body maybe was like, maybe we should have taken a step back.

00:12Honestly, no, because I know with Dani, there is like, it doesn't matter.

00:16I wouldn't be able to convince her otherwise.

00:18And honestly, I didn't want to because I know that if somebody can handle it, it's her.

00:23She's just very, very strong physically, mentally.

00:27She ended up having two fractured heels at the end of the season,

00:31like her bones, the heels gave out and cracked by the finale.

00:36But I was wrecked.

00:39But honestly, it's looking back, you know, it's amazing, you know, to say that, you know,

00:48you were this active, you know, with your baby still so, so little.

00:54And then right after that, you know, going through all together as a family and our baby

00:59has already traveled, I don't know, three countries, 30 states, 70 cities, you know,

01:06so it's, I don't know, it's, none of it is easy.

01:10It's not easy.

01:10But it is, I don't know, I think it's just so important and so exciting and so fulfilling

01:16that wouldn't change a thing and wouldn't want her to change a thing.

01:21How did you dance with two fractured heels?

01:23That's insane.

01:25Oh, I mean, I...

01:28Shots.

01:29Yeah, I had to get shots during the finale because

01:33leading up to the finale, we were training this...

01:36Basically, my freestyle in the show was a crazy lindy hop,

01:41which means I have a lot of tricks that were, I'm landing, I'm landing on my own.

01:45There's no one there to catch me.

01:47So every day that week, I was practicing that dance, landing, landing, landing.

01:52And because my joints were so fragile,

01:56every time I was landing, I was like getting like stress fractures in my heels.

02:01And came the finale, I was just in excruciating pain and I couldn't do it.

02:06I was like, I don't know what to do anymore.

02:09I was like, I have to get something.

02:10And a doctor came during the finale and gave me shots

02:16and was like injecting me right before the live show.

02:20Like minutes before the live show.

02:21And that got me through half the show.

02:26And then he came again and he had to give me more to get me through the show

02:30because it was just excruciating pain.

02:32And the day after, Plush was like, I think it's time to get an MRI.

02:36We need to go see what's happening.

02:38And we went and they told me I have to be off my feet for six weeks

02:43because I have fractured heels.

02:45She was wobbling.

02:46She had two boots on and she was wobbling in two boots around the house.

02:51And with those two boots, I came into rehearsals for tour.

02:55And I was like, I'll be back in two weeks.

02:57I'm going to be back in two weeks.

02:58And our choreographer, Amanda Moore, she's like, I love you so much.

03:02But you are not coming back until you're healed

03:04because if God forbid you don't heal well, there goes your career.

03:08And she was like my mom at the time.

03:10She was so good to me.

03:11And she was like, you need to heal before you can even come back.

03:15And she made my comeback into tour so smooth.

03:18Like she was the best.

03:19So yeah, a long journey.

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