Hope Solo Says Dancing With the Stars Partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy Slapped, Berated Her
“He was often nasty,” she writes, “swearing at me and being harshly critical. … I didn’t like being treated like that, but I could take it.”
She continues: “He manhandled me in rehearsals from the start, pushing me, whacking my stomach, bending my arms roughly. I thought that was just how it went – how dancers worked with each other. I was tough. I could take it.
“But it kept getting worse,” Hope continued. “One day, Maks was trying to put me in a certain position and hit my stomach so hard with his open palm that I had a red handprint there for the rest of the day.”
Chmerkovskiy didn’t respond directly to the allegations, but this tweet was probably in response to using these incidents to sell a book.
Always hated hypocrites and liars...but when someone is both AND an opportunist, I just feel bad for them. Can't win at someone's expense...
— Maksim Chmerkovskiy (@MaksimC) August 16, 2012
In addition to dancing with Hope (which would obviously be the name of a book Hope Solo wrote about dancing – subtitle “Solo”), Chmerkovskiy has been pared up with Willa Ford, Laila Ali, Misty May-Treanor and Erin Andrews. It should also be noted that Chmerkovskiy has never won the Mirror Ball Trophy. Dude’s a total hackfraud.