Selma Blair Leaves ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Due to Health Concerns: ‘I Can’t Go On’

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A hard decision. Selma Blair announced that she’s leaving Dancing With the Stars due to health concerns amid her ongoing battle with Multiple Sclerosis.“We need to talk,” the Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane alum, 50, said to her partner Sasha Farber during the Monday, September 17, episode of the Disney+ reality competition series.

Blair revealed that her doctors had been monitoring her throughout the competition and recent tests found that her body was under significant stress. “It just all adds up to … I can’t go on with the competition,” she said, before adding that she wanted to have “one last gentle dance” with Farber, 38.The duo performed a Waltz to “What the World Needs Now Is Love” by Andra Day.

The song came out in 2017, the year the Cruel Intentions actress received her MS diagnosis.“I was sick for so many years. I was searching and searching for how to help myself,” Blair said in a pre-taped package.

She shared that when her 11-year-old son Arthur was young, she would look at other mothers who were active and wonder why she couldn’t be more like them. “I just thought, ‘Oh, I’m a failure as a mom,’” she said, adding that getting diagnosed was “a huge relief” and “the beginning of recovery as a person.”After the Michigan native’s final moments on the ballroom floor, the judges congratulated her for making it this far. Len Goodman told her, “This competition is hard for everyone, but If the others have climbed hills, you have climbed mountains.” Derek Hough called the Legally Blonde actress “a beacon of light” and said that she had an “impeccable “reputation” for being kind to everyone involved with DWTS.