Maksim Chmerkovskiy on leaving Ukraine: 'I feel guilty'
foxnews.comMaksim Chmerkovskiy is opening up about his emotional return home from Ukraine, after documenting his experience of being in Kyiv when the war first broke out last week. "It's surreal to be honest.This is a country and the country's on fire, so it was very difficult to process for me because we're used to fly out, do some stuff, experience some things and always fly back.
And here I am unable to fly home.That to me was the biggest sort of moment of understanding like you're in trouble," Chmerkovskiy said in his first interview since his return to Los Angeles, California.
The 42-year-old was born in Ukraine but also has citizenship in the United States. He said that while he's since reunited with his wife Peta Murgatroyd and his kids after taking a flight home from Warsaw, Poland, he is struggling mentally. "Yeah, I feel guilty.
I feel bad. I feel shamed. I feel upset," Chmerkovskiy admitted. "I'm still very much in a fight or flight. I'm a big boy. I know for a fact that I'm going through something mentally.
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