Overview
- He reports icing his knees hourly and receiving injections during rehearsals, describing the push to keep performing as “borderline abuse.”
- Less than two weeks after his Nov. 11 quarterfinal elimination, he says his legs are still healing from the nine-week run.
- He trained at least four hours a day, seven days a week, working through bad knees and a bad hip, and he often wore knee braces.
- He credits the experience and partner Emma Slater with boosting his confidence and says he feels “rehearsal withdrawal” now that the show is over.
- He says his 25-year-old son attended most live shows and called him brave, and he has previously attributed part of his weight loss to the medication Zepbound.