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Cheryl Burke Shares Emotional Message connected Starting Over
Cheryl Burke doesn't request a partner.
The former Dancing With the Stars pro recently got candid about her dating beingness pursuing her divorcement from Matthew Lawrence and she's blessed dancing solo.
"I'm virtually dating myself," Cheryl exclusively told E! News astatine the Race To Erase MS 30th Anniversary Gala successful Los Angeles connected June 2 (see much of her interrogation connected the June 5 occurrence of E! News). "I cognize that sounds so, like, cliché, 'OK whatever.' No, but really, I'm not looking, I'm not funny astatine the moment."
For now, the two-time Mirrorball champion is focusing connected herself.
"I haven't been a large picker," she added. "But until I alteration that pattern—I person to truly authentically alteration the signifier oregon other I'll proceed to prime possibly not the bully ones for me."
Although, Cheryl made it wide she inactive has plentifulness of emotion successful her life, including for her canine Ysabella.
"I'm dating my canine for god's sake," she joked. "They person nary opinion, they're great, they're cute and they odor possibly a small spot but that's fine."
Cheryl filed for divorce from Matthew successful February 2022 aft astir 3 years of marriage, finalizing it aboriginal that year. Since the split, the Boy Meets World alum has recovered love with Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas from TLC.
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However, the breakup isn't the lone caller alteration successful Cheryl's beingness arsenic she left Dancing With the Stars successful November aft astir 17 years. Since then, she's pursued different endeavors (including the motorboat of a new, upcoming podcast). In summation to enactment life, the dancer shared she's focusing on internal work.
"For me, it's been much astir moving myself from the wrong out," she added, "and it's been an absorbing thrust the past mates years, but I've learned truthful much. It puts everything into perspective, beingness successful general. I defined myself by everything that I shouldn't have successful a mode due to the fact that it's truthful temporary—whether it's your job, oregon your matrimony oregon immoderate it is, right? At the extremity of the day, it truly starts with you, and you're stuck with you and you amended similar yourself. And I've done a batch of work, and yet I tin accidental I do."
And arsenic Cheryl continues to evolve, she hopes to walk on what she's learned and assistance others.
"I'm a enactment successful advancement forever, and it's been thing that has been, successful a way, enlightening that I privation to proceed to stock with the world," she said. "Because I think, I'm nary nonrecreational by immoderate means, but I person decidedly lived a batch already."
In addition, the 39-year-old is continuing to enactment with organizations adjacent to her heart— similar the Race To Erase MS. At the event, she spoke astir however she has a fewer "dear friends" who've been diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis, including Selma Blair, who competed connected season 31 of Dancing With the Stars and Jack Osbourne, who was Cheryl's creation spouse connected play 17.
"I've seen firsthand dealing with Jack Osbourne, being his creation spouse and person obviously, but it wasn't casual for him," she said. "And helium was capable to fight done this horrible illness and it's bad. It was atrocious astatine times, but it was besides beautiful. And conscionable to beryllium capable to beryllium that spokesperson for radical who endure from this, from MS, is—anything I tin bash to beryllium of assistance and beryllium of work really."
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