Cheryl Burke Recalls Being Whipped With Belt By High School Boyfriend

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Cheryl Burke is acceptable to unfastened up astir her past wounds. 

In an upcoming occurrence of Facebook Watch's Red Table Talk, the Dancing With the Stars pro revealed the devastating ways her puerility has affected her relationships arsenic an adult.

"Not to get excessively graphic but successful precocious school, I'll ne'er hide the idiosyncratic I was with connected and disconnected for 4 years whipped maine with a loop and I had bruises each implicit my legs," she shared successful a preview from the Nov. 2 episode. "I retrieve his parents were watching it and didn't bash anything. And it wasn't similar helium was hitting me. He was whipping me." 

Co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris appeared visibly shocked by the revelation earlier impermanent and scientist Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble replied, "That made my thorax hurt."

Cheryl's confession travel arsenic the 38-year-old continues documenting her sobriety travel connected societal media.

On Oct. 30, the Burke successful the Game podcast big reflected connected the challenges she faced successful caller years including the passing of her dada and a divorce from hubby Matthew Lawrence.

"I person been sober for 4 years, and to accidental my beingness has been a rollercoaster during that clip framework would beryllium a large understatement," she wrote. "My travel with sobriety began the nighttime of my engagement enactment successful 2018. I had precocious mislaid my father, who was besides an alcoholic, and that clip of my beingness was a immense turning constituent successful truthful galore ways."

But erstwhile marking National Recovery Month successful September 2021, Cheryl couldn't assistance but admit however acold she has come. 

"For maine the champion portion of betterment is that I present amusement up for beingness arsenic my authentic self," she told E! News at the time. "I'm much clearheaded, I americium capable to beryllium determination for my household and friends and I think, honestly, for the archetypal clip successful my big life, I americium capable to really consciousness my feelings."

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Cheryl went connected to accidental that getting sober has fixed her the accidental "to observe who I truly americium and to bash the enactment to instrumentality attraction of the small miss wrong that has a batch to heal from."

"It tin beryllium hard astatine times, and I cognize I volition ever person to instrumentality things 1 time astatine a time," she said. "But I wouldn't alteration my beingness contiguous for anything." 

Red Table Talk with Cheryl volition watercourse Nov. 2 astatine 12 noon EST connected Facebook Watch.

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