Even though he appeared on Dancing with the Stars as a guest judge this week, Maksim Chmerkovskiy trashed the show during a podcast called Allegedly with hosts Theo Von and Matthew Cole Weiss.
During the podcast, Chmerkovskiy said his departure from the show is “permanent,” revealed which dancing partner he slept with and his real feelings on his former partner Hope Solo.
“I was just not a good person for Dancing with the Stars because for me, it was never about politics or trying to look good for the camera,” he said, Fox News reports.
He even admitted the producers confronted him about not caring about the show, and they had a “giant fight.” When asked about his brother, Val, still being on the show he said it was “his problem.”
When the subject moved to hooking up with any partners, he denied having “any sort of relations” with anyone. “Well, one, back in the day. Willa Ford, we dated for a while,” he said. As for his partner, Solo, he called her “just a shi**y person.”
All in all, he referred to himself as “heavily censored” on the show because of Disney-owned ABC. “Mickey Mouse was writing my checks,” he said.