Cheryl Burke -- DWTS Partner Ian Ziering ... "Made Me Want To Slit My Wrists"
4/16/2016
by TMZ STAFF


Cheryl Burke's got a deep-seated hatred for her former "Dancing With the Stars" partner Ian Ziering.

Burke revealed being around Ziering 24/7 drove her so nuts it made her "want to slit her wrists." The grizzly confession went down on Matt Weiss and Theo Von's "Allegedly" podcast.



Burke and Ziering were eliminated in the semi-finals back in season 4 -- but according to Burke, she practically begged producers to give her the axe way before then.

The podcast will be released on iTunes Tuesday.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/16/cheryl-burke-ian-ziering-allegedly-podcast/

Cheryl Burke Says She was "Out of Line" for Past "Nasty" Comments about Former DWTS Partner Ian Ziering
by Naledi Ushe
April 20, 2021


Cheryl Burke is hoping to make amends with Ian Ziering – her former partner on "Dancing With the Stars".

In 2016, Burke, 36, made several "nasty" comments about Ziering, 57, calling him her "least favorite" pairing and that working with him in 2007 "made me want to slit my wrists." At the time, she apologized for her word choice, but not directly to him.




On Sunday's episode of the dancer's Pretty Messed Up podcast, Burke said she regrets saying the comments to this day and apologized to Ziering in the hopes of reconciliation.

"The one thing I truly regret and want to make amends with is Ian Ziering," she told her co-host AJ McLean shared. "I was completely out of line a few years ago, and I did a podcast where they were asking me who my favorite partner was and who did I hate the most. And I answered Ian Ziering, and I said something along the lines of 'I'd rather slit my wrists than dance with Ian Ziering again.'"




Burke continued, "I truly am so sorry for being so inconsiderate and just talking trying to get a reaction and putting him as my punching bag really. I took it to that next level of nastiness. I was so nasty, and I'm here to publicly apologize to Ian and his family."

Burke added, "I lost a lot of respect for myself. It haunts me till this day."

https://ew.com/syndication/cheryl-burke-apologizes-past-comments-dwts-ian-ziering/