'Dancing with the Stars' pro Keo Motsepe talks Jodie Sweetin's injuries -- I felt tested and asked "What is going on?!"

Dancing with the Stars pro Keo Motsepe has revealed all the details on Jodie Sweetin's ankle injury and how she came to dance Monday night.


Keo and the Fuller House star performed a contemporary routine to Pink's "Try" during Monday night's show following days of speculation she might not be able to dance at all. The couple earned 25 out of 30 judges' pants for the routine, tying for fourth place on the judges' leaderboard.

Jodie hurt her ankle while practicing a lift with Keo in rehearsal last week, and she even paid a visit to the hospital. Cameras captured footage of her crying and telling Keo, "I don't want to be done," because the last thing she wanted to do was quit the competition.

During an exclusive interview with Reality TV World on Tuesday, Keo gave the play by play on Jodie's injury and recovery.

[The injury] happened last Tuesday, because I saw the music video that we had to recreate, and I thought, 'Wow, this is going to be fun and interesting with a lot of lifts.' I didn't have any questions about, 'Can Jodie do this?'... I was excited to do the dance.


And she said, 'Oh my God! I can't wait! No shoes, great!' And then we tried different lifts... and choreography... First, it was the nose. I flipped her over and she landed on my arm, hitting her nose on my arm. And I was like, 'No, you've only been back for one day!'... After explaining it in a different and better way, we tried the lift again and it worked.

And then we tried the main lift from the music video and then that didn't go well. I remember that moment. Everything just dropped, like, emotionally for me and physically. I didn't know what to do, where to go, where to start, how to make it feel better. And I ran, like, 'What do we need?! Ice?' I got ice and then I was like, 'Babe, I am here. I am so sorry.'

I kept apologizing and she kept apologizing to me, and I'm like, 'It's not your fault. It's not. It's me and you in this together. If we lose, we lose together. If we win, we win together. From the beginning to the end, it's together. There's no individual. And then I was like, 'I'm going to give her moral support. I'm going to be by her side when she goes to the hospital.'

And when she was on her way to the hospital in the ambulance, she was laughing and I was making jokes with her and laughing. I was also recreating the move in my head while I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Just be here in this moment and leave it.' The doctors came and said to us, 'There's no bones broken, so now you'll go to a specialist who will tell you if any ligaments are torn or anything.'

And then we called and we found a specialist and she went, and then they said, 'No ligaments torn, so you are prepared to dance. You just have a bruise that's going to irritate you when you keep on putting pressure on your foot, because it's painful.' And then she was like, 'Oh okay.'


She came to the studio and told me all this news, and then I was like, 'Okay, do you trust me again?' And she said, 'Yes, I definitely do.' But she was like, 'We're not doing that lift again.' And I was like, 'Babe, definitely not. We'll try something different, something powerful...' After going from [low scores during Switch-Up Week with] Kim to Jodie and all of these injuries, I was like, 'What is going on?!'

I think the thing that tested me more was like, 'Okay it happened. Get through it. Get through it with your partner, do something fresh and then come back even stronger -- come out on top.' And that's what we did. We came in and Jodie and I looked at each other, like, 'We've got this! Let's kill this. Let's go to the top. We can and we will.' And last night we killed that dance, which was awesome.






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