June 10, 2024 • 57 mins
Actor, model, and season six DWTS contestant Cristián de la Fuente dazzled on the dance floor even after an injury forced him to dance with only one arm!
Cristián joins Cheryl to talk about his drama-filled time on the show, including being the first telenovela star to be on the show, what it was really like dancing with Cheryl, his tendon popping on live TV, the call he got from Sylvester Stallone, and why singer Mario was really upset at him.
Plus, the perks of making the finals, conspiracy theories, and the details of the bet he made with Cheryl that led to a memorable trip of a lifetime!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Sex Lies and Spray Tands with me Cheryl
Burke and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to Sex Size
and Spray Tans Today. I am so thrilled to introduce
a guest who not only wowed audiences with his talent
on Dancing with the Stars, but also showed incredible resilience
when he sustained an injury live on air during one
of our performances. Still going through PTSD amidst major media scrutiny,
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he also made me feel so safe and protected, and
true to his word, he treated us to an unforgettable
first class trip to his homeland, Santiago, Chile when we
made it to the finals because I won the bet.
An accomplished actor, producer, and television host, please join me
in welcoming Christian de la Fuente to the show. Christian,
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Welcome to Sex Life and Spray Tands. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You look like you're in a jail cell. Where are you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
In Mexico City. I just moved here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's six weeks that I moved here, Okay, so that's
why there's nothing in the walls.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I mean, I like it, but it's that a jail
it's simple. It's simple, bright and effective.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm here, and here I have all the things that
I have to do.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh oh my god, you're a posted sky. I love you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I'm a posted and I have my calendar in
the phone with different colors.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's why you were early to this interview. You were
never late on Dancing with the Stars, like for never,
not once, never ever.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You were like, even when I was under the influence
of icoding.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What don't say that when I tore when I tore
my muscle, Remember, they gave me the pain medication.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do I remember that?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I couldn't take it because then I would forget the
steps and the choreography and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I was like, okay, just deal with the pain.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Did you Did you face it like full eye to eye,
like you felt your feelings?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, I look, I look at the pain straight into
the eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, good, So.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm going to get you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Remember remember when they wanted me to quit?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no one wanted you to quit. Oh you mean
Conrad Conrad the producer.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, Christian, sorry you have to leave. No, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Good for you. No, that was thanks. Shout out to
Wendy Johnson. She was just here.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh yeah, oh, I love her. It was it was
all you and Wendy and you. Wendy asked you can
he next she asked me can you dance with one arm?
And I said yes? And then she asked you can
you do all the all the dances in reverse like
with the other arm? And you said yes. Why are
you laughing?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I say something, You're just so funny. No, this is
because it's funny now. But it wasn't funny then. That's
why it's either laughing or crying.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It was funny. It was funny then too.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, it was not funny.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Jason Taylor with Jason Taylor, we had the romance trailers
and we had that Yeah, the swimming pool, it was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It was fun We're going to go back to little
little Christian Okay, first, before we get to the juicy
gossip on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I've spent a lot of I've spent a lot of
time on money in therapy. Take care of that little Christianity.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh my god, I know so much. It's not even
a write off.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No, no. And then it gets to a point that
you know, especially in Chile, then it gets okay, you
have ten sessions a year to the psychologist and one
to the psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Dude, that's not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I need I need fifty six a year of each exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That is expensive, and there's insurance doesn't cover it either.
But everyone knows that we're.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Going to pay the first ten and then you get
a taste and then it's like then you have to
finish it because if not, you're gonna it's gonna be worse.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Who is Christian? Behind the telenovela?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who is Christian? Wow, that's the deep question. But I
know after after many years of therapy, h Christian is
a little kid looking for his dad's attention.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And law, yeah, did you find it within yourself?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes? I I go back.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Of course if we can relate because we've been in therapy,
and if anybody is anybody goes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
To therapy coming, No, it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, you're right, But but then if not, it's a
good friend, some somebody that listens to you. But when
you go back and you talk to that little you
and you say, hey, it's gonna be okay, and and
you say things are not gonna be that terrible and
you're gonna be able to survive. So we always since
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we're little, we look for happiness outside. We look for
happiness for making the football team, the soccer team, for
dating this girl, dating this guy, being popular, being successful,
having good grades. Everything is out out of and then
you grow up, and then publicity. If you buy this car,
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you're gonna be successful if you leave in this neighborhood,
and then you get into this craziness, and then you're
gonna be happy if you marry, and then when you marry,
if you have kids, and then but it's always outside,
and then it's gonna get to the point that it's
really inside and it's easier. It's so easy is here.
It's just look yourself in the mirror, and that's the
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person you have to love and you have to make happy.
Because you can't do that, then you can do anything else.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Amen, brother, Amen. I just really don't know if it's
easy though. For me it hasn't been that easy though.
I'm still working on it. I'm a work in progress forever.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's wow, it's so easy that it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The world is not easy.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's so simple mm hmm, because we're complicated.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Absolutely, it's not easy. It's it's simple. Yeah, it's simple.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The distance from the the shorter distance between two points
is the straight line. But we always go around and
ground and a round and never get to that point.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And and that's that's the big problem in life. That's
your that's that's your room. Your wait, what is where
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Often?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I miss your adhd? I really miss your adhd?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You have you have? You have your first trophy? There
a picture of the back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No, it's not. My first trophy has been eaten alive
by rats in my old house.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Do you do you have a picture of us to
your No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, I do, Actually I have, I have yours.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That you gave me A says two hearts, one arm.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Did I really say that?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah? It was nice.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It was pois.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's actually quite funny. I was funny back then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You're you're you're funny er.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
No, what do you think people's biggest misconceptions are about you? Christian?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That I'm not a nice guy?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Really?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah? Why a lot of people think a lot of
people think I'm not nice?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe because some big guy on my tone and the boys.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't know. And sometimes I say things that I
think is.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's in Spanish, and especially depending on the country.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That you are, because things that are really funny chiller
are not funny medical totally. And then things that I
think that are really funny in Spanish when I translated
into English and I say them, and then people look
at me like, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Your childhood, what was it like?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh? Family complicated?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Family complicated because my dad was married and had four kids,
but then he fell in love with my mom and
started dating my mom and then they had me. But
my dad was married, so then my mom and my
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dad had an argument that my mom said beautiful ah
phrase that she said, if I won't have you in
my life, I'm going to have your child la la
that's me.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Period.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So period, drama life.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then so then I grew up in this other family.
Always tried to get my dad's attention, Hey Dad, I'm here.
But my dad had a weird way. He was a charmer.
So I would be with my mom and my dad
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on Saturday and with my dad's wife and my brother
and sisters on Sunday, so both families, and then my
dad got along with everybody, and everybody knew the existence
of everybody, so it was different. It was different in
a very Catholic country many years ago. When being out
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being born outside the marriage with something, Oh my god,
so I couldn't say to anybody. I come up with, oh, no,
my dad was married, divorced, he married again. But so
why is he living with the first wife? I said, oh,
because he went back to her. Came up with this
whole story in order to to fit in a society
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that was very structured, and yeah, that was but I
grew up with a lot of love, especially with my mom.
My mom tried to overcompensate that my dad wasn't there
every day, and my dad make every every effort possible
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to be with me every day. So I knew that
my dad would after work would go to my house around.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The six seven pm.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So every social activity would finish at seven because my
dad would go home and I would hear his car
and then he would up, and then that was him arriving,
and then I had to be home.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I think a lot of people can relate to your stories.
Complicated family dynamics are very complicated. How did you get
into the entertainment industry? Like why did you want to
start acting? How did that all? What was that transition like, well, I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Remember when I saw Star Wars, the first Star Wars,
I wanted to be Luke Skywalker, okay, And I.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Had this big card boxes, cardboard boxes big, and then
I did one and I was in one spaceship, and
then my neighbor, my friend was in another spaceship, and
then we would travel galaxies for hours. And then that
feeling of playing somebody else and getting outside your reality
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in order to create an alternative reality that was acting.
So then I decided that I want to probably in
a way, there's two things that come here. First is
meeting people's approval, and then being an actor, you need
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people's approval, and that was something that was one of
the reasons. And the other reason is trying to in
one life through through playing other personalities and other characters,
doing the catharsis and the therapy way to get out
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some emotions that sometimes you don't let go. Sometimes we
have emotions that are very deep insight, and then when
you have to act and then you have to tap
into those emotions. You have to go and get and
get in touch with those emotions and let them out.
And that's why actors cry, you know, because they are
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able to connect to that memory of that pain that
is deeper, very deep insight ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So are you a method actor, Yes, you are.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Now are you a method dancer?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, I'm somebody that had the luck and the privilege
of dancing with a great dancer that was able to
make me look so good and make everybody believe that
I was leading her while she was back leading me.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Good answer.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, And it's funny. It's it's people.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sometimes you go in a place and say, oh, you're
a good dancer because because you.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did dancing when starts. I'm not a good dancer.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm somebody that if I repeat something two hundred times,
I'm gonna learn it. I'm a good learner, not a
good dancer. I will learn it, and then I'll repeat it.
And then after we did whatever, somebody it was gone.
Then it was the next one, and then it was
the next one, and then my brain had just the
space for that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Just a good learner, not not a good dancer.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
How consuming is dancing with the stars, Christian.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It's horrible, It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's horrid.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's so wait, why do you have to say more?
What do you mean horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, No, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Horrible in time consuming because I remember that once I
had the analogy that it was the same as for
running for a political job, you know, running for governor
of California and also competing into an endurance sport doing
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both at the same time, because it wasn't only okay,
you know you're gonna have to rehearse and do your best.
Now you have interviewers at six am, seven am, eight am.
You have to rehearse, then you have to go to
the show. Then you have to promote. Then you have
to you know, go and take in very speech something
to promote the show, and then you have to go
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to a late night show and then rehearsed twelve hours.
It's horrible. It gets to a point that it's like
is this ever gonna end? But I enjoyed every minute
of it was it was crazy. But when it was gone,
I was like, oh my god, it's gone, and it
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missed it and it was so crazy that my body
fatigued and my tendon just gave up by gone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
When was the last time you saw our footage of
you of that happening in the samba? Did you just
watch it or have you it's been a while.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
No. No, every time I tell the story and I
showed the scars of the of the tender, I said, well,
I have this, and it's not because I fought on
a bar. It's not because I saved an old lady
from a burning building. It's because I was dancing somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, Okay, let's rewind. That's a lie. You keep lying
to people if you say that, because listen, what was
the one thing, what was the one thing Christian that
I told you not to do when we were rehearsing
and competing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Say it, go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Thank you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you just forgot that
very important note. What happens when you go to the
gym and rehearse twelve hours a day. Is your tendent
just pops on live television because you're overworked. Your body
is going through major physical fatigue. And at the end
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of the day, you don't need to be lifting weights.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You got me, Well you're not very heavy, so well
you shouldn't You shouldn't count as weight.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean, but like, this is the problem. I think
if Dancing with the Stars wasn't seven days a week,
it's one thing like, oh, I'm gonna be sleeveless. I've
got to like pump some iron. I get it. But
like now they have rules, Christian, there's no longer twelve
hour rehearsals. You only have four hours? What But hold
hold that thought. Everybody cheats and goes and does extra
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rehearsal because like, there's no way that you.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Book, we had twelve hours, we can do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
As much as we wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, yeah, it was crazy and we did everything it was.
It was crazy, really NonStop. It was the crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I said in my intro that I was so grateful
for you because during our time together there was a
lot of media scrutiny and I felt safe and I
felt protected by you. So I'm super grateful for that.
I'll never forget it. So thank you. If I've never
thanked you before, it really had helped me so much
get out of my own head because that was a lot.
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So with the aanscying with the stars, especially back then,
comes millions of viewers. I just talked to Oud and
just a few months ago I talked to Marissa jart
Winoker remember her, yes, and Adam Carolla. I talked to
him as well and nice yeah, and Christi Amagucci and
it's interesting because they always reference you. And well, Marissa said,
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well because of the pity vote. We weren't in the
finals thanks to Christiane breaking his arm. But there was
such a bond, right that.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The one that was really really upset was Mario.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, but no last name.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, and it wasn't Mario because r I, Oh it's Mario.
But remember she wanted to be called Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No I didn't. I don't remember that. That's weird.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah. Yeah, well one day say hey, hi, Mario because
it's Mario.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's just no, it's Mario.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like long a. He was really upset.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Why he was really really upset because he thought he
was gonna stay and I was gonna go, and we
stayed and he got by, especially because he danced.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He danced and he had like I don't know, nine
nine eight and we had six six.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was like, come on, we are ready, but shan
if somebody tears attend then on national television, people wanted
to go for the underdog.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Thank you. And by the way, just clear up any
rumors people think that you faked it. Was it a
fake injury?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Can't fake it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know what, you know what people think. You know
why people think it because I just saw the footage
when we walked as Tom and you just said I
just pulled it. I think I just pulled a muscle
really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I thought I thought it was because it's not that
you you popped the tendon every week and all that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I had to sound like.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's why I fell on my face.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, it was somebody. But then when I when I
tried to move the arm on, the arm was like this,
and then the bicycle went all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's like something was wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Remember that. We went straight from there to emergency and
then it was it was bad news. It was the tendon.
Guns by.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
How did Dancing with the Stars come into your life?
Who approached you?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Uh? Dina Dina cats And I said no, like two
times you did because I was afraid. I was afraid. Yes,
I was afraid because it's it's I'm a control freak.
I do everything that and I want to be in
control and if I'm not good at something, I'd rather
not do it. So I was I was like, I'm
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not a good dancer. I know that I'm not a
good dance, and then she said, but it doesn't matter.
You know, you're gonna have time to rehearse, and then
we're gonna pay you with a great dancer. And but
and it's going to be good. And even you know,
there's others that are worse than you. So at least
you're gonna be there two three weeks. You're gonna be there.
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You're gonna be there two three weeks. And all the
way to the final was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And then off to Santiago, Chili.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
When we went, it was so crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It was so crazy that I had no no faith
in me going to the finance. It's like, I said, oh,
let's go to the finance. But it's not that I
really that. I said, oh, if I get to the finals,
we all going to Chile.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And when he says, wait, hold on, let's just say
let's put everything into respective here. Okay. So this was
after your arm, your tendant broke. You didn't pull a muscle.
Then I said, how much do you want to bet
we make the final. You're like, oh, there's no way,
and I was like watch and I said, okay, well
let's make a bet. And normally when you make bets
with people, they don't follow through with them, like I'm
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I mean the bets I've experienced, no one follows through
with anything. So but with you, he said, if we
make the finals, I'll take you. Remember Jojo Jojo is
a makeup art. Wasn't make up artist for the judges,
Dan Martin, Wendy Wendy, Dan Martin and Howard and Howard San, Yes,
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that's and he said, not only will I take you
to Chile, but first class everything. And I was like,
you're right. I didn't believe anything you said. Then we
make the final and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Then I remember when we made the we were live.
We made the finals because it was it was elimination
and somebody else is Marissa.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We stayed Marisa, and then on.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
The back Howard was.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yet God, that was one of the best trips ever
from what I remember, it was.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It was fun. That was a good time. And thank
you for that, Like that was so memorable, it was
so fun. Like you were the best torque, You were
the best host ever when you met me. Had you
ever seen the show before? Did you have any idea
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about the answers?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Of course, but I've never seen the show. But I
googled you, uh coacht caption provided? No?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Great? Was there Google back then? Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Was there? There was no social media back then?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, but there was Google. There was like search engine.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Just starting, just started.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, can I look at you? Read something? And I
saw you starmaka.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Dancing and they saw everything?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Right, Okay, so you were the first telenovela started to
compete on dancing with the start. Did you have a
lot of pressure because you're Latin and they think that
you should be able to dance the Latin dances, Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Of course, and everybody everybody thinks that, oh, because it's Latino,
it's a good dancer. Right. Everybody forgets that I was
born in Chile, and in Chile's cold, cold countries, people
don't dance.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well that's not true me. First of all, you weren't bad.
You were not a bad dancer. No, you weren't.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
No. No. But but here's the thing, when when wherever
it's cold, people are not dancing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
People dance.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
When you go out in Cube.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And Colombia, no, no cold country, you wear so many
clothes that you can't move, or if you dance, you
dance like this. But when you really good dancers are Venezuela, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba. You know there's no clothes, like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, but wun't you think, wouldn't you? Why didn't you
think that would be even more motivation to dance when
you're cold, so that since you're dry humping each other,
you can get hot.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Because it's okay, no, no. And then I had the
pressure because Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Had been premidly on the show My say normal Mario, yes, yes, yes,
and he had a last name again, he had a
less name, and so it was a lot of pressure
and he was he was really good.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
So how was I as a dance coach? Was I strict?
Was I so sweet and full of affirmations? Don't lie?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, you're the closest to a Russian dancer? No, no,
but but but but Russian story. I have a friend
that is and he was training in Cuba the other
like very military driven, and yeah, all the Russians in
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the show that were very strict, very very very strict.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And then we yelled at you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I never yelled at Christian never. I never yelled I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Not but you were taught and I was silent, but
with but with love.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It was tough love exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
And then okay, goodbye cookie, here here cookie, and then
and then again and then okay cookie, good boy, good run.
It was a mixture of both.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
We were all sitting like on stage, and they asked
you about my teaching style, and you said, well, I
was trained for this because I went to the military,
so so it prapped me for dancing with the stars
and dancing with me. My drill sergeant was nice and
a woman.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
No, yeah, you're tough, but it's great.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Hold on, what did you just say. Your drill sergeant
was tougher.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, you were tougher than my search.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's shocking.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Really, yeah, he he you're tough. But then I'm used
to that. You know, when they.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yell at me, I'm like, oh my god, they yell
at me. Oh it's good.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There's some times that you deserve to be yelled.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
At, right, people, people every time.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
This crystal generation that you can't say anything, Hey, don't
be stupid.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh my god, they told you that I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, you did a stupid thing, equals you're stupid. Then
do something to get out of that soul. But but
you can't say anything now, people are.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Crystal.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You can't say and to me they said everything, and
then that makes you tougher, and then that makes me.
Love makes you grow exactly if you have if you
have a rough time and that it's filled with carbon,
you're not gonna get up to the diamond just by
saying O dime. No. You have to go with the
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drill and you have to put heat on it and
you have to go through a lot of changes in
order to get the diamond out.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, amen, I agree, Amen, no one freaking I mean,
I wouldn't say no one. I guess there are some
coaches that are you know, treat them with kindness, and
kindness is key all those sayings, you know. But like
I wasn't mean. I was just honest, and some people
can't take the honest.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Day. They didn't say mean, I didn't say mean.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's say tough exactly different.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I agree, you need tough.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Do you think the judges were too tough on you?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yes? Why I remember one day that we did something
exceptional with one arm. I was great, and then everybody carrying.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Out Michael Jackson tango.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, the other guy gave us ten and this gave
us a nine. Why because he wasn't perfect, because he
was only with one arm? Better give you ten.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Do you really think that it's up to the judges
when they score or is that scripted by the executives?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think it's all scripted. Come on, there's reality. TV
is not real because it's TV. There's two words that
cannot be in one sentence, real TV because it's TV.
It's not real. It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Can you please say more?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
All scripted? It's it's also I think it's scripted the
ones that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Are in the bottom two, because then you create oh
my god, we need to save them. So then the
fact that we were in the bottom two the first week,
it was the best thing ever because everybody, oh is
gonna save it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
We were in the bottom two the first week.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh yes we were.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, who went okay.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So there's no way, first of all, with your with
your fan base, there's no Even if we just decided
to do nothing when you know we were supposed to
be dancing, you would have still made it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, but you need to wake up that fan base.
If that fan base things that you're safe, then not
going to vote for you. But if that fan base
knows that you're in risk. Then you activate them and boom,
they vote for you and they say and then.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You So you understand the psychology behind the show then.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So with that being said, do you believe that the
executives were for you, like wanted Team Christian to continue
or did they not want you to continue?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Oh? Yeah, they wanted me to do. It was good.
I was a different I was a different demographic for
the show. It was at the beginning. It was one
of the first latinos. It was all the Spanial audience.
It was all the crossover, doing publicity and things in Spanish,
and it was good. It was a win win for both.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What did you learn from this whole experience about yourself?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Everything? Really, everything is possible? And then I'm not I'm
not afraid of any challenge anything. When I turned forty five,
I said I want to run half iron seventy point three,
not the full iron Man, but a half iron Man.
(31:28):
And a friend of mine was like, you have to
do it. Every say it's crazy. I weigh two hundred
and thirty pounds. I cannot run half a marathon. I
cannot buy fifty five miles and swim for two kilometers.
It's crazy. And then he said, you're gonna do it,
and then once you cross the finish line, they're going
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to give you a medal, and then you're going to
hand that medal to your daughter, and then you're going
to show her that everything is possible in life.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
After that, I've done eight.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Now. Really, really, the biggest obstacle that we have in
life is our brain, our head. Today today went biking
in the morning at five thirty am, and I had
to go all the way here in Mexico, nothing is flat,
so I had to go all the way two thousand
(32:20):
feet going uphill, and I was negotiating with my brain.
I was like, oh, half an hour, half an hour
is good. If I quit here is half an hour
and a half an hour, one hour is good. Now,
you can't do that. Okay, let's go all the way
to fifty minutes because there's the turning point and then
we're going to make it there. And come on, you
can't be a CC. Come on, you have to do
the whole thing. Okay, let's keep going. Let's go twenty
(32:42):
more minutes. And then I made it all the way
to the top hour and twenty minutes, all the way
up forty minutes back. I did the two hours that
I wanted, but it was a constant battle with my head,
because when we quit in anything in life, it's not
because we can't go on. The first is because we
keep up. And Dancing with the Stars was the first
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time that I had to really go over my fears
over obstacles, over pain, over an injury in order to
just keep going as an asker that I really love
and admires that nobody's going to hit you harder than life.
(33:26):
But it ain't a ball hard you can hit.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's a ball heard you can get hit and keep
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now that's so where it is done.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I know who you're talking about, but don't ask me who.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, I'm going to give you. I'm going to give
you a no.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I know, I know, I know who you're talking about,
but I don't remember day. I know Rocky, I get it,
I know, but it's not what was the actors? Thank you?
I just saw a documentary on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Say wait, hold on that.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Remember The first call that I got after the injury was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Him, wait what.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I told you?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Say it again. I was drunk.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I got the injury on a Monday on a Tuesday,
my phone rings.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I said, Hi, Hey, Christian, Stop, Yes, hey, it's live.
What Yeah, I saw you dancing with the start. Remember
I told you that.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Slide wasn't remember I don't.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I saw, I said, I saw what happened to
your arm, and I have the perfect guide to fix it. Stop.
Then his wife's sister, Jennifer's sister is married to Needle
Laprotch Neil Elapratch was the head doctor of the Dodgers,
expert in tendance. He makes my arm. He said, I'm
(34:57):
going to give you. I'm going to give you disguise
now where you're gonna call him. He's gonna fix your ale.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I went there.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
He fixed ther arm and then the last checkup was
smoking a cigar with Slai and Nileta Crutch and Kafel
Roma in Berverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Wait, Christian, were you friends?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I was in shock. I did a movie with him.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I did Driven, Driven.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
We always kept in touch.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So he was watching us on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I played, I played. I played his best friend in
the movie in Driven.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Then I went to his birthday in Vegas for the
sixtith birthday, and we would get together. But the funny
thing is that Rocky watched Dancing with Stars. That's funny,
the last guy in the planet.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And he said, yeah, it's so what helpened in Dancing
with the Stars?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
And then we would I would make fun and say
that because I would tell him that people were making
fun that, oh you're a tough guy, you're big, and
then you're ten and by.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Dancing, why don't they showed this in your package, in
the package that they are?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And then and then he said, yeah, people make fun
of me because I tore the pets. But you never,
you never what's what's what's the word in in.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
S and Spanish?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
The engine when you.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
When you're.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
He said, you never blow the engine of Toyota.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You blow the engine of a Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
So do you think the show? He was the one
that gave me nilela Truch's number.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So and so, how how soon after the finale did
you get surgery because you got it before we went
to Chili?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Right, yes, because I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I couldn't get surgery all after the finale. So we
had the finale, I don't know, made something. Then we
went all the way to New York for the morning show.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We stayed two days in New York.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Then I flew back and two days after I did
the surgery, right two days after.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
What was the camaraderie like on the show? Because your
season was very special, Like, it's very hard to It's
not hard, I guess it just sometimes you have it,
sometimes you don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, our season was the best.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Never. I haven't seen other seasons. But we knew from
day one that Christy Amagucci was going to win. So
it was Okay, it's her show, she's going to win.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
We're going to have fun and we're going to enjoy
the process. And the only thing that we wanted is.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
To get to the finals.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Jason. It was the plan, Jason, Christie on us to
get to the final because we wanted the ride on
this leak's jet.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
To New York and have that party totally.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And it was. It was a lot of fun and
we wanted that that that was it. We were for that.
That was the goal, that.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Was the end game, and in the process we had
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
How did you and Jason have a romance?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
What bonded you? Guys?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's it's very hard when you have two big guys
with you know, strong personalities.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You know that nobody wants to be like.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
The bigger male in the room. And with him that happened.
You know, we we got along. We always help each other.
The yard race that I use in rehearsals, he called
Miami and had somebody flight over in order for me
to wear it. It was it was just that I
(38:44):
think with when you get competition out of the equation,
life is better and you work together as a team
because everybody that we're competing against each other that we're
all gone, we all and even with Mark Mark Nilki
was going to win. With Christians, yeah, the six of us,
(39:07):
it's like, okay, let's make it to the finals. Livet
make it to the finals. Lift and then you have
all that energy together that that energy brought us all
the way to the final.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I think you're right because like when you take off,
like when you know the for the like you know
who's going to win, right, there's no way Christy Amagucci
was not going to win. Then I think it takes
off that edge where you know when you want something
so bad and you grip onto it too hard, it
never happens, right, Like it's just the opposite happens. And
you're right, A lot of the people that were on earlier,
previous to the final or the finale, got eliminated because
(39:38):
they were just like taking this so like as if
they were curing cancer. You know.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, And it's it's just the competition to have fun.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
And there's a lot of pain and things involved in
and on crazy hoties. But at the end of the day,
when when we were there, we have fun. When we
were live together, when we were geat and the group together,
and the day of the show we were there, we
were and after the show we went out and celebrate.
It was it was Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I think big, big challenges gives they give you big rewards,
and in order to get the rewards and the happiness
that we got, you needed to go and to face those.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Challenges rapid fire ready, Okay, I'm scared of that. Who
falls in love first the celebrity or pro dancer, a celebrity?
Who was your biggest competition on the show? Me your
left arm?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
My left arm.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Did any of the judges ever get feedback that you
completely disagreed with?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah? Rest in peace?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Do you remember what he said?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Never said something that I agree with.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I love him, but never he was the one you
should have listened to. Who was the most difficult celebrity
contest and to get along with? I think I know now,
but Mario with the long a Okay, Mario, what was
the most weird? Well, he was very quiet. I'll never
(41:19):
forget this. He would like from day one, this guy
came in with professional Latin pants, like up to his nipples,
you know, like like traditional, like what you would see
like two professionals. Like you know, if me and Max
were to dance together, he probably put on some Latin pants,
but not a celebrity who's never danced before. And he
had the Cuban heels on and he was ready with Karina.
But you know, those two personalities together, Like if you
(41:42):
were with Karina and I was Mario, it would be different.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
I think, yeah, Mario would have gone to the finals.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well and you would have quit. No, I'm kinda go Okay,
what was the most dramatic moment behind the scenes other
than your arm Mary's elimination, stop it stop? Well maybe
(42:09):
I guess maybe yeah, Other.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Other than my arm the army was like there was
nothing like the actually the army was there was the
whole thing that Karna was upset because all we were
better and sorry people voted this is half points half
both we got the boats.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Wait. I just had Apollo anton Ono on here and
he because he did All Stars with Karina, and he
was like, Karina never gets tired. She if I said
to her, let's for hers twenty five hours, she would
be like, yes, can you say more? How do you
know that she was upset? Did she tell you or
she showed it?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Remember that they.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Quit yelling, They walked out and yelling at and then
then they were all upset today the package.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
The next week Karina and Mario and then in the
package they were saying something.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
It was yeah, bad bad okay.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I mean you should have seen Mario Lopez and Krena.
They were really upset. Okay. Anyway, he won right, No,
me and Emmett.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Oh that's why the next year it was for revenge.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
It was PTSD.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
It was all because of you.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
What was the biggest fight or argument you saw between
contestants or between us? Did we ever fight?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
No? Never?
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I mean yeah, we did stop like, no.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Have an argument or it's cover us.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's not fighting okay, But the question is biggest fight
or argument?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
No, because there were bigger fights. Uh Jason. Jason fought
with editor, remember, really in the same room and sometimes
and sometimes we go to our in the rehearsal would
show up and say, Okay, I can't take it.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I can't take it, but she needs to relax. And
then Eddie I was, Oh, he has to do this
and you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I was.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It was was like and then it d Yeah, she was.
She was tough.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
She was really tough.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Do you remember when Tom Brasron made fun of my
silver dress when we danced to the song Satellite our costumes?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah, what's the name of this guy that got kicked
out the first of the Adam Carolla?
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Adam Carolla, he's tasting oh the sorrow? Yeah, not good.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I thought that was good for him, Adam Adam, Yeah,
Adam loved you, so don't don't don't be don't be
mean to him.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I love I love I love him too. But but
that outfit.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Did you ever feel that the judges were playing favorites?
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Oh? Yes, in a way because it sounds scripted, you know,
they had to be tough to some. But I the
fact that they were tough to us was good because
that woke up the people calling and supporting us. But
but yeah, there were some people that they were really
(45:30):
nice and they're giving you know, high scores.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
And yeah, like they're almost like what what did you
just see? Because that right, like you're like what is
going on here? Because like some couples mess up and
they give high scores, like it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Like really, and I remember you and I many times
like come on, that's not a nine, I know, not wed? Yeah,
and then we we kill ourselves.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
And we got to That's the problem is that if
it wasn't so consuming, fine, let's play this game called
a reality show. But the fact that it's so consuming,
like we get so invested in it and we take
it personal. Why do you think this show is so intimate?
Like why do you think people fall in love.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Because you see celebrities that are you know, supposedly be
glamorous and happy suffering?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Do you think Donald Trump should do Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
I had you can survive it, but not me?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Can you more? You know I was also supposed to.
I don't think it was the same year as you,
or maybe it was but I also dropped out of
I was going to co host miss one of his pageants,
and I just have been seeing well recently because I've
been researching you obviously, but like, what is your feeling
with the current news of Trump and do you feel
(46:56):
like he's going to serve time or no?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Well, I always suppose him from the moment he called
you know, all the Mexicans and that includes all the Latinos.
You know, drug dealers and grape piston. You know, it's bad,
and especially because what Latinos do in the American economy.
(47:21):
And I don't think somebody as divisive as him is
good for a country in times that we need unity,
we need to heal, we need to come together, we
need to, you know, forget about differences and try to
(47:41):
find things that bring us together and unify. And then
if you see all the countries, many leaders are either
right wing or left wing. Are people that are dividing
the country that they're talking to one part of the population,
that is the majority that are the ones that elect them.
But then at the end they are being only their present.
(48:05):
And when you're president, you're the president of the whole country.
You have to you're elected by one group. But you
have to serve everybody, not just the voters that voted
for you. And I think that's a big problem that
you know.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
That's why I never agree with him.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
That's why I never voted for him, because I don't
think he's he's working our country and I can say
our country is a US citizens.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Our country needs do you believe? So Tom Bergeron got
really upset, and he has said this openly on this
podcast as well, but he when Sean Spicer was cast
on Dancing with the Stars, he had a problem with
it because it was at a time where, like you said,
we you know, we were divided, and he didn't feel
like even if Obama was going to president Obama wanted
(48:53):
to do it. He would also disagree because like we
don't need to remind people when they watch Dancing with
the Stars of what's going on politically in this world.
Like this is a show that people should be using
to keep their mind off of all of that shit,
right do you agree?
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah? For that you have the news, you know, the
news or reality and then you get into politics and
to this guy fighting with the other guys. But I
don't think you should put politics into television into the
part that is entertaining. That is the one window that
the family has to turn on the TV and get
(49:30):
out of the problems that they have and just create
that fourth wall into the fantasy of something different and
then okay, the show is over. Okay, let's get back
to paint the bills and dealing with this and all
the problems that we have, and you know, all the
problems that we deal with, you know, violence, terror, the inflation, economics,
(49:55):
the world is going through, I think through a phase
that we need to change. And if we don't change,
more things are going to happen in order for us
to change, because you either changed because you want by
the will or because you're forced to, and we need
(50:18):
We had a pandemic and we didn't get the message,
and then more things are going to get happened, are
going to happen in order for us to change. So
we better, you know, step up to the plate and
start changing.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Kind of speaking of I guess what happened with you
and your daughter? And I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
I was. I was.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Yeah, it was two years ago, yes, two years ago.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
For my birthday. I went celebrating my birthday in a restaurant,
and I went to pick her up at the school,
and then a couple of guys were following me because
they wanted to steal my watch. And when I stopped
at a friend's house to drop her, the guy knocked
on the window with the gun and then I saw
(51:11):
the gun and then I run away, but then he
fired and trying to kill me. The bullet was three
centimeters passed through my face and then it hit my
daughter in the legs.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
And then and then I drove straight to the closest
hospital and then, thank god, it was a miracle.
Speaker 5 (51:31):
Nothing happened well, the bullet went in one leg, got out,
and then he'd ended up in the other leg, but
nothing serious happened in the way that there was no
bone or no arteries broken.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
So then she.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Was in a wheel She couldn't walk for months.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
She was in a wheelchair for two months, and then
we did all this therapy in order for her to
go back to walking, running and then playing sports.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
And this year, when.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
I run the Iron Man in there's a race that
it's it's done two days before. It's called the promotional,
so people get a taste of the race and then
she did it, and then she swam amazing and yeah,
and she's playing soccer and she's healthy and the guys,
thank god, are in jail good and they're going to
(52:24):
be there for a while.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Where did this happen in Mexico City or no, it's Chile.
Oh so it was just the watch. It wasn't deeper
than that, obviously. It was just like they were trying
to literally just steal your watch.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
Wanted yea, they wanted to steal the watch. So since then, plastic.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Watches, Oh my god, yes, smart, Yes, well, you must
have gone through a lot of PTSD. I mean, seriously,
that must have been I mean, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I'm so happy that you guys are okay.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
But since since then, it's nice because for my birthday
March tenth, we celebrated my birthday and she has another
birthday because it's one year of another chance of living. Right.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Well, I'm happy you guys are safe and that she's running.
That's great, that's great. She's just like nothing's getting her done.
That's where she gets it from from you. I guess
that mentality.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
Yeah, well it's it helped it help Coen and also
all the all the therapy I tried to focus into.
I said, Okay, think about a challenge. You want to
run a half marath or a ten k, or you
want to play soccer. What do you want to do
that it's beyond walking. And then she said, I want
(53:41):
to run a ten k. Okay, so let's prepare for that,
not for walking, because going back to walking is different
than preparing for an event totally. So that gave us,
gave her the courage and the energy to do it,
and she did it. And the happish guy in the planet.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
That's so sweet. I want to see her. I mean,
I knew her when she was three and a half.
I cannot It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
A couple of fan questions before I let you go
at the James Bennett is asking you did Dancing with
the Stars increase your popularity in the United States?
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Of course? Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Wait you did dvis mates with Gille Marini.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yes I did, But but I did it I did
it afterwards?
Speaker 1 (54:28):
Right, But so I danced with Gille Oh really?
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Oh yes, but I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
I wasn't with Jillian in the same in the same season.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Okay, I thought I saw you guys on a talk show.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Way, we are friends. We are friends. We are friends
in Instagram because of you.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
Oh, I'll see dancing stars brings people together.
Speaker 3 (54:48):
Yes, togetherness.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Okay, wait so it has so how what what's next
for you?
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Like?
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Are you in the United States a lot?
Speaker 4 (54:55):
Or No?
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I'm between here and there.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
I just I just did a movie with Jeffey and
Julia that we premiered in the in Austin.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
In the what's it called again? Yeah? I saw your
press interview on that.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
I did that.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Now I'm in Mexico. I'm going to shoot the TV
show here in Mexico in a month. So that's why
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (55:24):
And the would you do Mira con baila?
Speaker 3 (55:28):
No? No, never?
Speaker 1 (55:31):
Last question from ad Julian Boogery Inc. Just these names
are killing me. Why do you think you're dancing improved
so much after your injury? What about it? I know
the answer, but do you.
Speaker 3 (55:44):
It's because we wanted to make it to the finals.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
No, it was the technical what's the technical answer, Christian?
Speaker 3 (55:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
Remember what what arm is the leading arm for the man?
The right one?
Speaker 3 (56:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (56:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (56:02):
Oh, because I started using my right You're right.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
You see remember now you do good that I have
you by my side always from a different even via zoom.
Speaker 3 (56:13):
Seeing this is crazy.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
What do you want to promote anything? What's next for you?
Where can people find you? Not your home address, but
like where can people find you online?
Speaker 3 (56:24):
Oh? My Instagram? I I I use my Instagram myself.
Nobody goes in.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Can you do some English speaking Instagram posts?
Speaker 2 (56:31):
Please?
Speaker 1 (56:32):
Because I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
There's the thing that says translate. There is Yeah, there's.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
A bottom you put translate and it turned into English.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
But that means you have to read it right because
I'm doing my makeup.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Okay, I'm going to start doing things in English.
Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yes, don't forget about your United States fans, like we love.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
You here just just for you, just for you.
Speaker 1 (56:56):
No for for your fan base that you're completely abandoning.
You're right, You're right, Thank you, Christian, thank you, Thank
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This is Sex Lies and Spray Tands with me Cheryl
Burke and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to Sex Size
and Spray Tans Today. I am so thrilled to introduce
a guest who not only wowed audiences with his talent
on Dancing with the Stars, but also showed incredible resilience
when he sustained an injury live on air during one
of our performances. Still going through PTSD amidst major media scrutiny,
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he also made me feel so safe and protected, and
true to his word, he treated us to an unforgettable
first class trip to his homeland, Santiago, Chile when we
made it to the finals because I won the bet.
An accomplished actor, producer, and television host, please join me
in welcoming Christian de la Fuente to the show. Christian,
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Welcome to Sex Life and Spray Tands. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You look like you're in a jail cell. Where are you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
In Mexico City. I just moved here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's six weeks that I moved here, Okay, so that's
why there's nothing in the walls.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I mean, I like it, but it's that a jail
it's simple. It's simple, bright and effective.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm here, and here I have all the things that
I have to do.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh oh my god, you're a posted sky. I love you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I'm a posted and I have my calendar in
the phone with different colors.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's why you were early to this interview. You were
never late on Dancing with the Stars, like for never,
not once, never ever.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You were like, even when I was under the influence
of icoding.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What don't say that when I tore when I tore
my muscle, Remember, they gave me the pain medication.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do I remember that?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I couldn't take it because then I would forget the
steps and the choreography and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I was like, okay, just deal with the pain.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Did you Did you face it like full eye to eye,
like you felt your feelings?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, I look, I look at the pain straight into
the eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, good, So.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm going to get you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Remember remember when they wanted me to quit?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no one wanted you to quit. Oh you mean
Conrad Conrad the producer.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, Christian, sorry you have to leave. No, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Good for you. No, that was thanks. Shout out to
Wendy Johnson. She was just here.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh yeah, oh, I love her. It was it was
all you and Wendy and you. Wendy asked you can
he next she asked me can you dance with one arm?
And I said yes? And then she asked you can
you do all the all the dances in reverse like
with the other arm? And you said yes. Why are
you laughing?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I say something, You're just so funny. No, this is
because it's funny now. But it wasn't funny then. That's
why it's either laughing or crying.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It was funny. It was funny then too.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, it was not funny.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Jason Taylor with Jason Taylor, we had the romance trailers
and we had that Yeah, the swimming pool, it was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It was fun We're going to go back to little
little Christian Okay, first, before we get to the juicy
gossip on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I've spent a lot of I've spent a lot of
time on money in therapy. Take care of that little Christianity.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh my god, I know so much. It's not even
a write off.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No, no. And then it gets to a point that
you know, especially in Chile, then it gets okay, you
have ten sessions a year to the psychologist and one
to the psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Dude, that's not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I need I need fifty six a year of each exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That is expensive, and there's insurance doesn't cover it either.
But everyone knows that we're.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Going to pay the first ten and then you get
a taste and then it's like then you have to
finish it because if not, you're gonna it's gonna be worse.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Who is Christian? Behind the telenovela?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who is Christian? Wow, that's the deep question. But I
know after after many years of therapy, h Christian is
a little kid looking for his dad's attention.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And law, yeah, did you find it within yourself?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes? I I go back.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Of course if we can relate because we've been in therapy,
and if anybody is anybody goes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
To therapy coming, No, it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, you're right, But but then if not, it's a
good friend, some somebody that listens to you. But when
you go back and you talk to that little you
and you say, hey, it's gonna be okay, and and
you say things are not gonna be that terrible and
you're gonna be able to survive. So we always since
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we're little, we look for happiness outside. We look for
happiness for making the football team, the soccer team, for
dating this girl, dating this guy, being popular, being successful,
having good grades. Everything is out out of and then
you grow up, and then publicity. If you buy this car,
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you're gonna be successful if you leave in this neighborhood,
and then you get into this craziness, and then you're
gonna be happy if you marry, and then when you marry,
if you have kids, and then but it's always outside,
and then it's gonna get to the point that it's
really inside and it's easier. It's so easy is here.
It's just look yourself in the mirror, and that's the
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person you have to love and you have to make happy.
Because you can't do that, then you can do anything else.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Amen, brother, Amen. I just really don't know if it's
easy though. For me it hasn't been that easy though.
I'm still working on it. I'm a work in progress forever.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's wow, it's so easy that it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The world is not easy.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's so simple mm hmm, because we're complicated.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Absolutely, it's not easy. It's it's simple. Yeah, it's simple.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The distance from the the shorter distance between two points
is the straight line. But we always go around and
ground and a round and never get to that point.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And and that's that's the big problem in life. That's
your that's that's your room. Your wait, what is where
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Often?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I miss your adhd? I really miss your adhd?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You have you have? You have your first trophy? There
a picture of the back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No, it's not. My first trophy has been eaten alive
by rats in my old house.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Do you do you have a picture of us to
your No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, I do, Actually I have, I have yours.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That you gave me A says two hearts, one arm.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Did I really say that?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah? It was nice.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It was pois.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's actually quite funny. I was funny back then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You're you're you're funny er.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
No, what do you think people's biggest misconceptions are about you? Christian?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That I'm not a nice guy?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Really?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah? Why a lot of people think a lot of
people think I'm not nice?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe because some big guy on my tone and the boys.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't know. And sometimes I say things that I
think is.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's in Spanish, and especially depending on the country.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That you are, because things that are really funny chiller
are not funny medical totally. And then things that I
think that are really funny in Spanish when I translated
into English and I say them, and then people look
at me like, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Your childhood, what was it like?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh? Family complicated?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Family complicated because my dad was married and had four kids,
but then he fell in love with my mom and
started dating my mom and then they had me. But
my dad was married, so then my mom and my
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dad had an argument that my mom said beautiful ah
phrase that she said, if I won't have you in
my life, I'm going to have your child la la
that's me.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Period.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So period, drama life.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then so then I grew up in this other family.
Always tried to get my dad's attention, Hey Dad, I'm here.
But my dad had a weird way. He was a charmer.
So I would be with my mom and my dad
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on Saturday and with my dad's wife and my brother
and sisters on Sunday, so both families, and then my
dad got along with everybody, and everybody knew the existence
of everybody, so it was different. It was different in
a very Catholic country many years ago. When being out
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being born outside the marriage with something, Oh my god,
so I couldn't say to anybody. I come up with, oh, no,
my dad was married, divorced, he married again. But so
why is he living with the first wife? I said, oh,
because he went back to her. Came up with this
whole story in order to to fit in a society
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that was very structured, and yeah, that was but I
grew up with a lot of love, especially with my mom.
My mom tried to overcompensate that my dad wasn't there
every day, and my dad make every every effort possible
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to be with me every day. So I knew that
my dad would after work would go to my house around.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The six seven pm.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So every social activity would finish at seven because my
dad would go home and I would hear his car
and then he would up, and then that was him arriving,
and then I had to be home.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I think a lot of people can relate to your stories.
Complicated family dynamics are very complicated. How did you get
into the entertainment industry? Like why did you want to
start acting? How did that all? What was that transition like, well, I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Remember when I saw Star Wars, the first Star Wars,
I wanted to be Luke Skywalker, okay, And I.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Had this big card boxes, cardboard boxes big, and then
I did one and I was in one spaceship, and
then my neighbor, my friend was in another spaceship, and
then we would travel galaxies for hours. And then that
feeling of playing somebody else and getting outside your reality
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in order to create an alternative reality that was acting.
So then I decided that I want to probably in
a way, there's two things that come here. First is
meeting people's approval, and then being an actor, you need
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people's approval, and that was something that was one of
the reasons. And the other reason is trying to in
one life through through playing other personalities and other characters,
doing the catharsis and the therapy way to get out
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some emotions that sometimes you don't let go. Sometimes we
have emotions that are very deep insight, and then when
you have to act and then you have to tap
into those emotions. You have to go and get and
get in touch with those emotions and let them out.
And that's why actors cry, you know, because they are
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able to connect to that memory of that pain that
is deeper, very deep insight ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So are you a method actor, Yes, you are.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Now are you a method dancer?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, I'm somebody that had the luck and the privilege
of dancing with a great dancer that was able to
make me look so good and make everybody believe that
I was leading her while she was back leading me.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Good answer.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, And it's funny. It's it's people.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sometimes you go in a place and say, oh, you're
a good dancer because because you.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did dancing when starts. I'm not a good dancer.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm somebody that if I repeat something two hundred times,
I'm gonna learn it. I'm a good learner, not a
good dancer. I will learn it, and then I'll repeat it.
And then after we did whatever, somebody it was gone.
Then it was the next one, and then it was
the next one, and then my brain had just the
space for that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Just a good learner, not not a good dancer.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
How consuming is dancing with the stars, Christian.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It's horrible, It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's horrid.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's so wait, why do you have to say more?
What do you mean horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, No, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Horrible in time consuming because I remember that once I
had the analogy that it was the same as for
running for a political job, you know, running for governor
of California and also competing into an endurance sport doing
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both at the same time, because it wasn't only okay,
you know you're gonna have to rehearse and do your best.
Now you have interviewers at six am, seven am, eight am.
You have to rehearse, then you have to go to
the show. Then you have to promote. Then you have
to you know, go and take in very speech something
to promote the show, and then you have to go
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to a late night show and then rehearsed twelve hours.
It's horrible. It gets to a point that it's like
is this ever gonna end? But I enjoyed every minute
of it was it was crazy. But when it was gone,
I was like, oh my god, it's gone, and it
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missed it and it was so crazy that my body
fatigued and my tendon just gave up by gone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
When was the last time you saw our footage of
you of that happening in the samba? Did you just
watch it or have you it's been a while.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
No. No, every time I tell the story and I
showed the scars of the of the tender, I said, well,
I have this, and it's not because I fought on
a bar. It's not because I saved an old lady
from a burning building. It's because I was dancing somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, Okay, let's rewind. That's a lie. You keep lying
to people if you say that, because listen, what was
the one thing, what was the one thing Christian that
I told you not to do when we were rehearsing
and competing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Say it, go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Thank you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you just forgot that
very important note. What happens when you go to the
gym and rehearse twelve hours a day. Is your tendent
just pops on live television because you're overworked. Your body
is going through major physical fatigue. And at the end
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of the day, you don't need to be lifting weights.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You got me, Well you're not very heavy, so well
you shouldn't You shouldn't count as weight.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean, but like, this is the problem. I think
if Dancing with the Stars wasn't seven days a week,
it's one thing like, oh, I'm gonna be sleeveless. I've
got to like pump some iron. I get it. But
like now they have rules, Christian, there's no longer twelve
hour rehearsals. You only have four hours? What But hold
hold that thought. Everybody cheats and goes and does extra
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rehearsal because like, there's no way that you.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Book, we had twelve hours, we can do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
As much as we wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, yeah, it was crazy and we did everything it was.
It was crazy, really NonStop. It was the crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I said in my intro that I was so grateful
for you because during our time together there was a
lot of media scrutiny and I felt safe and I
felt protected by you. So I'm super grateful for that.
I'll never forget it. So thank you. If I've never
thanked you before, it really had helped me so much
get out of my own head because that was a lot.
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So with the aanscying with the stars, especially back then,
comes millions of viewers. I just talked to Oud and
just a few months ago I talked to Marissa jart
Winoker remember her, yes, and Adam Carolla. I talked to
him as well and nice yeah, and Christi Amagucci and
it's interesting because they always reference you. And well, Marissa said,
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well because of the pity vote. We weren't in the
finals thanks to Christiane breaking his arm. But there was
such a bond, right that.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The one that was really really upset was Mario.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, but no last name.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, and it wasn't Mario because r I, Oh it's Mario.
But remember she wanted to be called Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No I didn't. I don't remember that. That's weird.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah. Yeah, well one day say hey, hi, Mario because
it's Mario.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's just no, it's Mario.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like long a. He was really upset.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Why he was really really upset because he thought he
was gonna stay and I was gonna go, and we
stayed and he got by, especially because he danced.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He danced and he had like I don't know, nine
nine eight and we had six six.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was like, come on, we are ready, but shan
if somebody tears attend then on national television, people wanted
to go for the underdog.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Thank you. And by the way, just clear up any
rumors people think that you faked it. Was it a
fake injury?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Can't fake it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know what, you know what people think. You know
why people think it because I just saw the footage
when we walked as Tom and you just said I
just pulled it. I think I just pulled a muscle
really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I thought I thought it was because it's not that
you you popped the tendon every week and all that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I had to sound like.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's why I fell on my face.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, it was somebody. But then when I when I
tried to move the arm on, the arm was like this,
and then the bicycle went all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's like something was wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Remember that. We went straight from there to emergency and
then it was it was bad news. It was the tendon.
Guns by.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
How did Dancing with the Stars come into your life?
Who approached you?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Uh? Dina Dina cats And I said no, like two
times you did because I was afraid. I was afraid. Yes,
I was afraid because it's it's I'm a control freak.
I do everything that and I want to be in
control and if I'm not good at something, I'd rather
not do it. So I was I was like, I'm
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not a good dancer. I know that I'm not a
good dance, and then she said, but it doesn't matter.
You know, you're gonna have time to rehearse, and then
we're gonna pay you with a great dancer. And but
and it's going to be good. And even you know,
there's others that are worse than you. So at least
you're gonna be there two three weeks. You're gonna be there.
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You're gonna be there two three weeks. And all the
way to the final was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And then off to Santiago, Chili.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
When we went, it was so crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It was so crazy that I had no no faith
in me going to the finance. It's like, I said, oh,
let's go to the finance. But it's not that I
really that. I said, oh, if I get to the finals,
we all going to Chile.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And when he says, wait, hold on, let's just say
let's put everything into respective here. Okay. So this was
after your arm, your tendant broke. You didn't pull a muscle.
Then I said, how much do you want to bet
we make the final. You're like, oh, there's no way,
and I was like watch and I said, okay, well
let's make a bet. And normally when you make bets
with people, they don't follow through with them, like I'm
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I mean the bets I've experienced, no one follows through
with anything. So but with you, he said, if we
make the finals, I'll take you. Remember Jojo Jojo is
a makeup art. Wasn't make up artist for the judges,
Dan Martin, Wendy Wendy, Dan Martin and Howard and Howard San, Yes,
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that's and he said, not only will I take you
to Chile, but first class everything. And I was like,
you're right. I didn't believe anything you said. Then we
make the final and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Then I remember when we made the we were live.
We made the finals because it was it was elimination
and somebody else is Marissa.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We stayed Marisa, and then on.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
The back Howard was.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yet God, that was one of the best trips ever
from what I remember, it was.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It was fun. That was a good time. And thank
you for that, Like that was so memorable, it was
so fun. Like you were the best torque, You were
the best host ever when you met me. Had you
ever seen the show before? Did you have any idea
(23:30):
about the answers?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Of course, but I've never seen the show. But I
googled you, uh coacht caption provided? No?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Great? Was there Google back then? Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Was there? There was no social media back then?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, but there was Google. There was like search engine.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Just starting, just started.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, can I look at you? Read something? And I
saw you starmaka.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Dancing and they saw everything?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Right, Okay, so you were the first telenovela started to
compete on dancing with the start. Did you have a
lot of pressure because you're Latin and they think that
you should be able to dance the Latin dances, Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Of course, and everybody everybody thinks that, oh, because it's Latino,
it's a good dancer. Right. Everybody forgets that I was
born in Chile, and in Chile's cold, cold countries, people
don't dance.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well that's not true me. First of all, you weren't bad.
You were not a bad dancer. No, you weren't.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
No. No. But but here's the thing, when when wherever
it's cold, people are not dancing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
People dance.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
When you go out in Cube.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And Colombia, no, no cold country, you wear so many
clothes that you can't move, or if you dance, you
dance like this. But when you really good dancers are Venezuela, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba. You know there's no clothes, like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, but wun't you think, wouldn't you? Why didn't you
think that would be even more motivation to dance when
you're cold, so that since you're dry humping each other,
you can get hot.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Because it's okay, no, no. And then I had the
pressure because Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Had been premidly on the show My say normal Mario, yes, yes, yes,
and he had a last name again, he had a
less name, and so it was a lot of pressure
and he was he was really good.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
So how was I as a dance coach? Was I strict?
Was I so sweet and full of affirmations? Don't lie?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, you're the closest to a Russian dancer? No, no,
but but but but Russian story. I have a friend
that is and he was training in Cuba the other
like very military driven, and yeah, all the Russians in
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the show that were very strict, very very very strict.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And then we yelled at you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I never yelled at Christian never. I never yelled I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Not but you were taught and I was silent, but
with but with love.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It was tough love exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
And then okay, goodbye cookie, here here cookie, and then
and then again and then okay cookie, good boy, good run.
It was a mixture of both.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
We were all sitting like on stage, and they asked
you about my teaching style, and you said, well, I
was trained for this because I went to the military,
so so it prapped me for dancing with the stars
and dancing with me. My drill sergeant was nice and
a woman.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
No, yeah, you're tough, but it's great.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Hold on, what did you just say. Your drill sergeant
was tougher.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, you were tougher than my search.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's shocking.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Really, yeah, he he you're tough. But then I'm used
to that. You know, when they.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yell at me, I'm like, oh my god, they yell
at me. Oh it's good.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There's some times that you deserve to be yelled.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
At, right, people, people every time.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
This crystal generation that you can't say anything, Hey, don't
be stupid.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh my god, they told you that I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, you did a stupid thing, equals you're stupid. Then
do something to get out of that soul. But but
you can't say anything now, people are.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Crystal.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You can't say and to me they said everything, and
then that makes you tougher, and then that makes me.
Love makes you grow exactly if you have if you
have a rough time and that it's filled with carbon,
you're not gonna get up to the diamond just by
saying O dime. No. You have to go with the
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drill and you have to put heat on it and
you have to go through a lot of changes in
order to get the diamond out.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, amen, I agree, Amen, no one freaking I mean,
I wouldn't say no one. I guess there are some
coaches that are you know, treat them with kindness, and
kindness is key all those sayings, you know. But like
I wasn't mean. I was just honest, and some people
can't take the honest.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Day. They didn't say mean, I didn't say mean.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's say tough exactly different.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I agree, you need tough.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Do you think the judges were too tough on you?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yes? Why I remember one day that we did something
exceptional with one arm. I was great, and then everybody carrying.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Out Michael Jackson tango.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, the other guy gave us ten and this gave
us a nine. Why because he wasn't perfect, because he
was only with one arm? Better give you ten.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Do you really think that it's up to the judges
when they score or is that scripted by the executives?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think it's all scripted. Come on, there's reality. TV
is not real because it's TV. There's two words that
cannot be in one sentence, real TV because it's TV.
It's not real. It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Can you please say more?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
All scripted? It's it's also I think it's scripted the
ones that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Are in the bottom two, because then you create oh
my god, we need to save them. So then the
fact that we were in the bottom two the first week,
it was the best thing ever because everybody, oh is
gonna save it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
We were in the bottom two the first week.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh yes we were.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, who went okay.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So there's no way, first of all, with your with
your fan base, there's no Even if we just decided
to do nothing when you know we were supposed to
be dancing, you would have still made it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, but you need to wake up that fan base.
If that fan base things that you're safe, then not
going to vote for you. But if that fan base
knows that you're in risk. Then you activate them and boom,
they vote for you and they say and then.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You So you understand the psychology behind the show then.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So with that being said, do you believe that the
executives were for you, like wanted Team Christian to continue
or did they not want you to continue?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Oh? Yeah, they wanted me to do. It was good.
I was a different I was a different demographic for
the show. It was at the beginning. It was one
of the first latinos. It was all the Spanial audience.
It was all the crossover, doing publicity and things in Spanish,
and it was good. It was a win win for both.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What did you learn from this whole experience about yourself?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Everything? Really, everything is possible? And then I'm not I'm
not afraid of any challenge anything. When I turned forty five,
I said I want to run half iron seventy point three,
not the full iron Man, but a half iron Man.
(31:28):
And a friend of mine was like, you have to
do it. Every say it's crazy. I weigh two hundred
and thirty pounds. I cannot run half a marathon. I
cannot buy fifty five miles and swim for two kilometers.
It's crazy. And then he said, you're gonna do it,
and then once you cross the finish line, they're going
(31:49):
to give you a medal, and then you're going to
hand that medal to your daughter, and then you're going
to show her that everything is possible in life.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
After that, I've done eight.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Now. Really, really, the biggest obstacle that we have in
life is our brain, our head. Today today went biking
in the morning at five thirty am, and I had
to go all the way here in Mexico, nothing is flat,
so I had to go all the way two thousand
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feet going uphill, and I was negotiating with my brain.
I was like, oh, half an hour, half an hour
is good. If I quit here is half an hour
and a half an hour, one hour is good. Now,
you can't do that. Okay, let's go all the way
to fifty minutes because there's the turning point and then
we're going to make it there. And come on, you
can't be a CC. Come on, you have to do
the whole thing. Okay, let's keep going. Let's go twenty
(32:42):
more minutes. And then I made it all the way
to the top hour and twenty minutes, all the way
up forty minutes back. I did the two hours that
I wanted, but it was a constant battle with my head,
because when we quit in anything in life, it's not
because we can't go on. The first is because we
keep up. And Dancing with the Stars was the first
(33:05):
time that I had to really go over my fears
over obstacles, over pain, over an injury in order to
just keep going as an asker that I really love
and admires that nobody's going to hit you harder than life.
(33:26):
But it ain't a ball hard you can hit.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's a ball heard you can get hit and keep
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now that's so where it is done.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I know who you're talking about, but don't ask me who.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, I'm going to give you. I'm going to give
you a no.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I know, I know, I know who you're talking about,
but I don't remember day. I know Rocky, I get it,
I know, but it's not what was the actors? Thank you?
I just saw a documentary on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Say wait, hold on that.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Remember The first call that I got after the injury was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Him, wait what.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I told you?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Say it again. I was drunk.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I got the injury on a Monday on a Tuesday,
my phone rings.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I said, Hi, Hey, Christian, Stop, Yes, hey, it's live.
What Yeah, I saw you dancing with the start. Remember
I told you that.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Slide wasn't remember I don't.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I saw, I said, I saw what happened to
your arm, and I have the perfect guide to fix it. Stop.
Then his wife's sister, Jennifer's sister is married to Needle
Laprotch Neil Elapratch was the head doctor of the Dodgers,
expert in tendance. He makes my arm. He said, I'm
(34:57):
going to give you. I'm going to give you disguise
now where you're gonna call him. He's gonna fix your ale.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I went there.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
He fixed ther arm and then the last checkup was
smoking a cigar with Slai and Nileta Crutch and Kafel
Roma in Berverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Wait, Christian, were you friends?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I was in shock. I did a movie with him.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I did Driven, Driven.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
We always kept in touch.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So he was watching us on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I played, I played. I played his best friend in
the movie in Driven.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Then I went to his birthday in Vegas for the
sixtith birthday, and we would get together. But the funny
thing is that Rocky watched Dancing with Stars. That's funny,
the last guy in the planet.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And he said, yeah, it's so what helpened in Dancing
with the Stars?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
And then we would I would make fun and say
that because I would tell him that people were making
fun that, oh you're a tough guy, you're big, and
then you're ten and by.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Dancing, why don't they showed this in your package, in
the package that they are?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And then and then he said, yeah, people make fun
of me because I tore the pets. But you never,
you never what's what's what's the word in in.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
S and Spanish?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
The engine when you.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
When you're.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
He said, you never blow the engine of Toyota.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You blow the engine of a Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
So do you think the show? He was the one
that gave me nilela Truch's number.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So and so, how how soon after the finale did
you get surgery because you got it before we went
to Chili?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Right, yes, because I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I couldn't get surgery all after the finale. So we
had the finale, I don't know, made something. Then we
went all the way to New York for the morning show.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We stayed two days in New York.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Then I flew back and two days after I did
the surgery, right two days after.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
What was the camaraderie like on the show? Because your
season was very special, Like, it's very hard to It's
not hard, I guess it just sometimes you have it,
sometimes you don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, our season was the best.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Never. I haven't seen other seasons. But we knew from
day one that Christy Amagucci was going to win. So
it was Okay, it's her show, she's going to win.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
We're going to have fun and we're going to enjoy
the process. And the only thing that we wanted is.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
To get to the finals.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Jason. It was the plan, Jason, Christie on us to
get to the final because we wanted the ride on
this leak's jet.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
To New York and have that party totally.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And it was. It was a lot of fun and
we wanted that that that was it. We were for that.
That was the goal, that.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Was the end game, and in the process we had
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
How did you and Jason have a romance?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
What bonded you? Guys?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's it's very hard when you have two big guys
with you know, strong personalities.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You know that nobody wants to be like.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
The bigger male in the room. And with him that happened.
You know, we we got along. We always help each other.
The yard race that I use in rehearsals, he called
Miami and had somebody flight over in order for me
to wear it. It was it was just that I
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think with when you get competition out of the equation,
life is better and you work together as a team
because everybody that we're competing against each other that we're
all gone, we all and even with Mark Mark Nilki
was going to win. With Christians, yeah, the six of us,
(39:07):
it's like, okay, let's make it to the finals. Livet
make it to the finals. Lift and then you have
all that energy together that that energy brought us all
the way to the final.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I think you're right because like when you take off,
like when you know the for the like you know
who's going to win, right, there's no way Christy Amagucci
was not going to win. Then I think it takes
off that edge where you know when you want something
so bad and you grip onto it too hard, it
never happens, right, Like it's just the opposite happens. And
you're right, A lot of the people that were on earlier,
previous to the final or the finale, got eliminated because
(39:38):
they were just like taking this so like as if
they were curing cancer. You know.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, And it's it's just the competition to have fun.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
And there's a lot of pain and things involved in
and on crazy hoties. But at the end of the day,
when when we were there, we have fun. When we
were live together, when we were geat and the group together,
and the day of the show we were there, we
were and after the show we went out and celebrate.
It was it was Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I think big, big challenges gives they give you big rewards,
and in order to get the rewards and the happiness
that we got, you needed to go and to face those.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Challenges rapid fire ready, Okay, I'm scared of that. Who
falls in love first the celebrity or pro dancer, a celebrity?
Who was your biggest competition on the show? Me your
left arm?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
My left arm.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Did any of the judges ever get feedback that you
completely disagreed with?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah? Rest in peace?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Do you remember what he said?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Never said something that I agree with.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I love him, but never he was the one you
should have listened to. Who was the most difficult celebrity
contest and to get along with? I think I know now,
but Mario with the long a Okay, Mario, what was
the most weird? Well, he was very quiet. I'll never
(41:19):
forget this. He would like from day one, this guy
came in with professional Latin pants, like up to his nipples,
you know, like like traditional, like what you would see
like two professionals. Like you know, if me and Max
were to dance together, he probably put on some Latin pants,
but not a celebrity who's never danced before. And he
had the Cuban heels on and he was ready with Karina.
But you know, those two personalities together, Like if you
(41:42):
were with Karina and I was Mario, it would be different.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
I think, yeah, Mario would have gone to the finals.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well and you would have quit. No, I'm kinda go Okay,
what was the most dramatic moment behind the scenes other
than your arm Mary's elimination, stop it stop? Well maybe
(42:09):
I guess maybe yeah, Other.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Other than my arm the army was like there was
nothing like the actually the army was there was the
whole thing that Karna was upset because all we were
better and sorry people voted this is half points half
both we got the boats.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Wait. I just had Apollo anton Ono on here and
he because he did All Stars with Karina, and he
was like, Karina never gets tired. She if I said
to her, let's for hers twenty five hours, she would
be like, yes, can you say more? How do you
know that she was upset? Did she tell you or
she showed it?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Remember that they.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Quit yelling, They walked out and yelling at and then
then they were all upset today the package.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
The next week Karina and Mario and then in the
package they were saying something.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
It was yeah, bad bad okay.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I mean you should have seen Mario Lopez and Krena.
They were really upset. Okay. Anyway, he won right, No,
me and Emmett.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Oh that's why the next year it was for revenge.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
It was PTSD.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
It was all because of you.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
What was the biggest fight or argument you saw between
contestants or between us? Did we ever fight?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
No? Never?
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I mean yeah, we did stop like, no.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Have an argument or it's cover us.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's not fighting okay, But the question is biggest fight
or argument?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
No, because there were bigger fights. Uh Jason. Jason fought
with editor, remember, really in the same room and sometimes
and sometimes we go to our in the rehearsal would
show up and say, Okay, I can't take it.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I can't take it, but she needs to relax. And
then Eddie I was, Oh, he has to do this
and you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I was.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It was was like and then it d Yeah, she was.
She was tough.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
She was really tough.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Do you remember when Tom Brasron made fun of my
silver dress when we danced to the song Satellite our costumes?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah, what's the name of this guy that got kicked
out the first of the Adam Carolla?
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Adam Carolla, he's tasting oh the sorrow? Yeah, not good.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I thought that was good for him, Adam Adam, Yeah,
Adam loved you, so don't don't don't be don't be
mean to him.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I love I love I love him too. But but
that outfit.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Did you ever feel that the judges were playing favorites?
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Oh? Yes, in a way because it sounds scripted, you know,
they had to be tough to some. But I the
fact that they were tough to us was good because
that woke up the people calling and supporting us. But
but yeah, there were some people that they were really
(45:30):
nice and they're giving you know, high scores.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
And yeah, like they're almost like what what did you
just see? Because that right, like you're like what is
going on here? Because like some couples mess up and
they give high scores, like it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Like really, and I remember you and I many times
like come on, that's not a nine, I know, not wed? Yeah,
and then we we kill ourselves.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
And we got to That's the problem is that if
it wasn't so consuming, fine, let's play this game called
a reality show. But the fact that it's so consuming,
like we get so invested in it and we take
it personal. Why do you think this show is so intimate?
Like why do you think people fall in love.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Because you see celebrities that are you know, supposedly be
glamorous and happy suffering?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Do you think Donald Trump should do Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
I had you can survive it, but not me?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Can you more? You know I was also supposed to.
I don't think it was the same year as you,
or maybe it was but I also dropped out of
I was going to co host miss one of his pageants,
and I just have been seeing well recently because I've
been researching you obviously, but like, what is your feeling
with the current news of Trump and do you feel
(46:56):
like he's going to serve time or no?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Well, I always suppose him from the moment he called
you know, all the Mexicans and that includes all the Latinos.
You know, drug dealers and grape piston. You know, it's bad,
and especially because what Latinos do in the American economy.
(47:21):
And I don't think somebody as divisive as him is
good for a country in times that we need unity,
we need to heal, we need to come together, we
need to, you know, forget about differences and try to
(47:41):
find things that bring us together and unify. And then
if you see all the countries, many leaders are either
right wing or left wing. Are people that are dividing
the country that they're talking to one part of the population,
that is the majority that are the ones that elect them.
But then at the end they are being only their present.
(48:05):
And when you're president, you're the president of the whole country.
You have to you're elected by one group. But you
have to serve everybody, not just the voters that voted
for you. And I think that's a big problem that
you know.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
That's why I never agree with him.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
That's why I never voted for him, because I don't
think he's he's working our country and I can say
our country is a US citizens.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Our country needs do you believe? So Tom Bergeron got
really upset, and he has said this openly on this
podcast as well, but he when Sean Spicer was cast
on Dancing with the Stars, he had a problem with
it because it was at a time where, like you said,
we you know, we were divided, and he didn't feel
like even if Obama was going to president Obama wanted
(48:53):
to do it. He would also disagree because like we
don't need to remind people when they watch Dancing with
the Stars of what's going on politically in this world.
Like this is a show that people should be using
to keep their mind off of all of that shit,
right do you agree?
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah? For that you have the news, you know, the
news or reality and then you get into politics and
to this guy fighting with the other guys. But I
don't think you should put politics into television into the
part that is entertaining. That is the one window that
the family has to turn on the TV and get
(49:30):
out of the problems that they have and just create
that fourth wall into the fantasy of something different and
then okay, the show is over. Okay, let's get back
to paint the bills and dealing with this and all
the problems that we have, and you know, all the
problems that we deal with, you know, violence, terror, the inflation, economics,
(49:55):
the world is going through, I think through a phase
that we need to change. And if we don't change,
more things are going to happen in order for us
to change, because you either changed because you want by
the will or because you're forced to, and we need
(50:18):
We had a pandemic and we didn't get the message,
and then more things are going to get happened, are
going to happen in order for us to change. So
we better, you know, step up to the plate and
start changing.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Kind of speaking of I guess what happened with you
and your daughter? And I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
I was. I was.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Yeah, it was two years ago, yes, two years ago.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
For my birthday. I went celebrating my birthday in a restaurant,
and I went to pick her up at the school,
and then a couple of guys were following me because
they wanted to steal my watch. And when I stopped
at a friend's house to drop her, the guy knocked
on the window with the gun and then I saw
(51:11):
the gun and then I run away, but then he
fired and trying to kill me. The bullet was three
centimeters passed through my face and then it hit my
daughter in the legs.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
And then and then I drove straight to the closest
hospital and then, thank god, it was a miracle.
Speaker 5 (51:31):
Nothing happened well, the bullet went in one leg, got out,
and then he'd ended up in the other leg, but
nothing serious happened in the way that there was no
bone or no arteries broken.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
So then she.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Was in a wheel She couldn't walk for months.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
She was in a wheelchair for two months, and then
we did all this therapy in order for her to
go back to walking, running and then playing sports.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
And this year, when.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
I run the Iron Man in there's a race that
it's it's done two days before. It's called the promotional,
so people get a taste of the race and then
she did it, and then she swam amazing and yeah,
and she's playing soccer and she's healthy and the guys,
thank god, are in jail good and they're going to
(52:24):
be there for a while.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Where did this happen in Mexico City or no, it's Chile.
Oh so it was just the watch. It wasn't deeper
than that, obviously. It was just like they were trying
to literally just steal your watch.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
Wanted yea, they wanted to steal the watch. So since then, plastic.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Watches, Oh my god, yes, smart, Yes, well, you must
have gone through a lot of PTSD. I mean, seriously,
that must have been I mean, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I'm so happy that you guys are okay.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
But since since then, it's nice because for my birthday
March tenth, we celebrated my birthday and she has another
birthday because it's one year of another chance of living. Right.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Well, I'm happy you guys are safe and that she's running.
That's great, that's great. She's just like nothing's getting her done.
That's where she gets it from from you. I guess
that mentality.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
Yeah, well it's it helped it help Coen and also
all the all the therapy I tried to focus into.
I said, Okay, think about a challenge. You want to
run a half marath or a ten k, or you
want to play soccer. What do you want to do
that it's beyond walking. And then she said, I want
(53:41):
to run a ten k. Okay, so let's prepare for that,
not for walking, because going back to walking is different
than preparing for an event totally. So that gave us,
gave her the courage and the energy to do it,
and she did it. And the happish guy in the planet.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
That's so sweet. I want to see her. I mean,
I knew her when she was three and a half.
I cannot It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
A couple of fan questions before I let you go
at the James Bennett is asking you did Dancing with
the Stars increase your popularity in the United States?
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Of course? Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Wait you did dvis mates with Gille Marini.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yes I did, But but I did it I did
it afterwards?
Speaker 1 (54:28):
Right, But so I danced with Gille Oh really?
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Oh yes, but I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
I wasn't with Jillian in the same in the same season.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Okay, I thought I saw you guys on a talk show.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Way, we are friends. We are friends. We are friends
in Instagram because of you.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
Oh, I'll see dancing stars brings people together.
Speaker 3 (54:48):
Yes, togetherness.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Okay, wait so it has so how what what's next
for you?
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Like?
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Are you in the United States a lot?
Speaker 4 (54:55):
Or No?
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I'm between here and there.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
I just I just did a movie with Jeffey and
Julia that we premiered in the in Austin.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
In the what's it called again? Yeah? I saw your
press interview on that.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
I did that.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Now I'm in Mexico. I'm going to shoot the TV
show here in Mexico in a month. So that's why
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (55:24):
And the would you do Mira con baila?
Speaker 3 (55:28):
No? No, never?
Speaker 1 (55:31):
Last question from ad Julian Boogery Inc. Just these names
are killing me. Why do you think you're dancing improved
so much after your injury? What about it? I know
the answer, but do you.
Speaker 3 (55:44):
It's because we wanted to make it to the finals.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
No, it was the technical what's the technical answer, Christian?
Speaker 3 (55:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
Remember what what arm is the leading arm for the man?
The right one?
Speaker 3 (56:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (56:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (56:02):
Oh, because I started using my right You're right.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
You see remember now you do good that I have
you by my side always from a different even via zoom.
Speaker 3 (56:13):
Seeing this is crazy.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
What do you want to promote anything? What's next for you?
Where can people find you? Not your home address, but
like where can people find you online?
Speaker 3 (56:24):
Oh? My Instagram? I I I use my Instagram myself.
Nobody goes in.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Can you do some English speaking Instagram posts?
Speaker 2 (56:31):
Please?
Speaker 1 (56:32):
Because I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
There's the thing that says translate. There is Yeah, there's.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
A bottom you put translate and it turned into English.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
But that means you have to read it right because
I'm doing my makeup.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Okay, I'm going to start doing things in English.
Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yes, don't forget about your United States fans, like we love.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
You here just just for you, just for you.
Speaker 1 (56:56):
No for for your fan base that you're completely abandoning.
You're right, You're right, Thank you, Christian, thank you, Thank
you guys so much for listening. Make sure to rate
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