Abby Lee Miller Talks JoJo Siwa & ‘Dance Moms’ Legacy _ Behind The Easel

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00:00Everyone's replaceable.

00:01Pay attention, kids.

00:02And there they were, outside, drunk, broke,

00:04bitching about everything.

00:06Had they told you what you're going to paint,

00:07I can tell you.

00:08I'm going to paint whatever I want.

00:09Jesus, this is like a real thing.

00:11I thought I was just pretending.

00:12Did I paint?

00:13Yes, now you can go ahead and start painting.

00:15Yes?

00:15OK.

00:21Dance Moms was stressful.

00:22I was at a competition and bumped into an old friend,

00:25a kid that had competed against my kids.

00:27Took him to a hotel where my kids were competing.

00:30I looked at him and his jaw was like this.

00:33And I said, what's wrong with you?

00:35And he said, Abby, these kids are adorable.

00:38They should be on television.

00:40I said, yeah, let me introduce you to the mothers.

00:43You're a liar.

00:44This is her real story.

00:45Lying for her teeth.

00:46Laurieann, this was not to get in the dance.

00:48This was actually to bring closure

00:50to what she was feeling.

00:52But do you hear how cuckoo for Coco Pebble Pops you sound?

00:56And there they were, outside, drunk, broke,

00:59bitching about everything.

01:00You had too much to drink.

01:01Oh, whatever.

01:02You better settle it down.

01:03Bitch.

01:06Stop, stop, stop.

01:07Stop, bitch.

01:08Stop.

01:09I'll kick your ass.

01:10Stop, stop.

01:12Sorry, I'm sorry.

01:13Go ahead, bitch.

01:15The biggest misconception is that the kids had a contract.

01:19Not true.

01:20Because it was supposed to be a six-week docuseries.

01:22The production company never put it through the courts.

01:25They didn't get it right the way

01:26they should have for the kids.

01:28So the moms were under contract, but not the kids.

01:30They could have walked at any time.

01:32But nobody walked until they had a better offer.

01:35Asia's been offered amazing opportunities back in LA.

01:38And I would be dumb not to take them.

01:41And I think her days here at ALDC are finished.

01:44You had some pretty iconic lines throughout Dance Mom.

01:48No, I never said that.

01:49Yes, you most certainly did.

01:50No, I didn't.

01:51Dang bat, listen.

01:52I want to sit back and relax and enjoy my evening

01:56when all of a sudden I hear this agitating, grating voice.

02:01Do you have a favorite signature catchphrase?

02:03Oh, well, everyone's replaceable.

02:05Everyone's replaceable.

02:06You know that.

02:08Yep, even dance teachers.

02:10There are also a lot of iconic scenes from Dance Moms.

02:13You preach theater etiquette to my kids.

02:15Put your phone away.

02:19You preach theater etiquette.

02:20Put it away.

02:21One of my personal favorites is when you tell the producers

02:24that you're leaving to Baskin-Robbins,

02:26but then you actually go to the police.

02:27I did go to Baskin-Robbins after that, though.

02:30Hi, Abby.

02:31Where are you going?

02:32I don't know.

02:33I think I'm going to go to Baskin-Robbins.

02:34What do you remember about trying to escape production

02:37in that moment?

02:38It was just getting out of the doors,

02:40because a lot of doors are not handicap accessible, right?

02:43We're going to have to speed up a little.

02:48She's zooming, dude.

02:49Abby, what are you doing?

02:50I'm filing a police report.

02:52Nobody is going to verbally assault me

02:55at a dance competition.

02:56So it was rough being alone.

02:59You have to count on other people

03:01to get out of the building.

03:03This dancer just messed up my big flower garden hair bun.

03:06OK.

03:07I have been dying my hair since I was like two,

03:10maybe one and a half.

03:11I'm not a natural blonde.

03:13I'm actually a natural brown.

03:14I get brown roots, so I have to dye it

03:16so it looks like I'm a natural blonde.

03:18JoJo has done other reality shows.

03:21She gets it.

03:22She gets that we were putting on a TV show.

03:25The other kids, I still sometimes think

03:28they don't realize that it was a TV show.

03:30It was their life.

03:31You know what I mean?

03:32They were just little girls.

03:33It was their life.

03:34JoJo came into it through Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition.

03:36They brought her on to Dance Moms.

03:38She's done all this stuff.

03:39And she knows half of it's making a TV show.

03:45You got to do what works.

03:46So she gets it.

03:47She learned.

03:48And she's also grateful.

03:49And she knows that being on Abby's Ultimate

03:53and Dance Moms created a platform

03:55for her to take off with.

04:01She's grateful.

04:02As I think everyone should be.

04:03Have you spoken to Maddie and her mom recently?

04:05No.

04:06No.

04:07No, no, no.

04:08You're really talking about the bad subjects.

04:10No, we're-

04:11Let's talk happy and good.

04:12I'm turning.

04:13You're doing scandalous stuff here.

04:15On the bottom.

04:17Paige.

04:18You were good.

04:19I'm waiting for you to be great.

04:20Next.

04:23Nia.

04:24You're third on the pyramid.

04:25You were third overall high score.

04:27And on top of the pyramid,

04:28going three for three,

04:31once again,

04:33is Maddie.

04:34So you are known for the pyramid.

04:36I have to ask.

04:37Who are your top three celebrities that you're loving?

04:39And how would you rank them on your pyramid?

04:42Oh my god.

04:43Robert Redford in the way we were.

04:45I want that guy in that military,

04:47sailor, navy uniform.

04:49That officer uniform.

04:51In that bar.

04:52Sleeping.

04:53Move over Barbra Streisand.

04:54Let me at him.

04:55Tom Cruise.

04:56All the right moves.

04:58George Clooney

04:59in something

05:0120 years ago.

05:02How about current celebrities?

05:03Top three.

05:05Oh god.

05:06I don't even know any current celebrities.

05:08Me?

05:09Timothee Chalamet.

05:10Do you know who that is?

05:11Oh my god, yes.

05:12He was wonderful in the-

05:13The Bob Dylan movie.

05:14Bob Dylan movie.

05:15I loved him in that.

05:16Yeah, but he's kind of a little guy.

05:17What celebrities do you think are the best dancers?

05:20Billie Eilish was a competition dancer.

05:22Contemporary.

05:23Zendaya.

05:24Definitely.

05:25But we don't see her dance a lot.

05:26They don't utilize her dancing at all.

05:28J-Lo.

05:29Do I get in trouble for that?

05:30Shakira.

05:31Nah.

05:32Shakira kind of does what Shakira does.

05:34I don't know if I gave her a lyrical,

05:36she could whip it out.

05:37Beyonce.

05:38Yeah, yeah.

05:39I'm going to get in trouble

05:40if I say people are pigeon-toed.

05:42So I can't.

05:43I need all these celebrities to quit sickling their feet,

05:46learn how to bevel that ankle,

05:48and pose correctly.

05:49How about the kids?

05:50Why aren't I working with Northwest?

05:53Why aren't I working with Blue?

05:56Pay attention, kids.

05:57Blue Ivy.

05:58Northwest.

05:59A great dancer was Heidi Klum's daughter.

06:02Fabulous.

06:03She was on my competition team here in L.A.

06:05when I first opened my studio.

06:07Wonderful child to work with.

06:08Just in the family.

06:09Seal.

06:11When he comes in to talk to you,

06:13there is nobody else in the room.

06:14He looks at you like you are the only woman

06:17that's ever mattered.

06:19He's quite charismatic, that man.

06:22Shiloh, yes.

06:23I mean, Shiloh, Blue Ivy, and Northwest.

06:27Give me that trio.

06:28Five, six, seven, eight.

06:41Some incredible dancing.

06:43I feel like the mentors that came on

06:45to put the kids through their paces were excellent.

06:47The season one reunion was insane.

06:50How was it for you,

06:51kind of literally being in the middle of these dancers

06:54going at it,

06:55and how were you as mediator, do you think?

06:59I just let them go at each other.

07:00I don't know.

07:01A lot of the things they were talking about

07:03happened in the house without me.

07:05So sometimes I didn't even know

07:06what they were talking about.

07:07We're doing a time check.

07:08How's it looking so far?

07:09Oh, like a big hot mess, but it's okay.

07:12I was talking.

07:13I was talking, sweetie.

07:15This is my recovery, redemption, relive.

07:21We have flowers, we have sun,

07:22and we have the Abby Lee Dance Company

07:24logo dancer in the background.

07:26It would have been better

07:27without the cameras in the conversation.

07:29So we have grass, we have big plants,

07:33beautiful flowers, kind of.

07:35And then we have my logo dancer,

07:37and that girl is actually Amanda Stiletto.

07:39Madhouse season two is out February 27th

07:43on Brandon TV.

07:44And that season nine you've been waiting for,

07:48Abby Lee Dance With Me,

07:49is out on my YouTube the first two episodes

07:53on April 1st.

08:07And I'll see you next time.

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