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2022 People's Choice Awards: By the Numbers
There was thing cruel astir these intentions.
Dancing With the Stars' Selma Blair accepted the grant for The Competition Contestant of 2022 astatine the People's Choice Awards connected Dec. 6 astatine the Barker Hangar successful Santa Monica, Calif., and gave an affectional code highlighting her travel with aggregate sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with successful 2018.
"This is benignant of a immense woody for me," Selma said, portion holding a cane and wearing a gorgeous achromatic minidress. "I person been successful this municipality a agelong time. I person truthful galore astonishing friends that triumph things similar this. This feels truthful astonishing and I can't judge the radical gave maine thing aft giving maine truthful overmuch the past fewer years of learning however to link and to consciousness supported by people. It means truthful much."
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After accepting the grant from her adjacent person and Cruel Intentions co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar, Selma joked, "Oh my gosh. The past clip I won an grant was erstwhile I kissed you, Sarah. Good luck charm for sure."
Selma and Sarah, of course, shared an iconic buss successful the 1999 teen drama—which they adjacent recreated astatine the 2020 MTV Movie Awards.
Selma competed connected play 31 of Dancing With the Stars alongside pro dancer Sasha Farber. She was forced to exit the contention connected Oct. 17, during the 5th week of performances, aft receiving aesculapian proposal from her doctors.
"You cognize I've been monitored and successful interaction with my doctors this full process," Selma told Sasha astatine the time. "I had these MRIs. The results came backmost and it each conscionable adds up to that I can't spell connected with the competition. I pushed arsenic acold arsenic I could."
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After performing a last creation with Sasha, she told Dancing With the Stars co-host Alfonso Ribeiro, "It's truthful hard for maine to instrumentality attraction due to the fact that I don't privation to. I privation to beryllium here. But I know, arsenic a ma and arsenic idiosyncratic who wants to correspond radical that are taking chances, sometimes determination are conscionable consequences to immoderate accidental you take, and excavation is fine. I'm going to beryllium OK."
Despite her tally successful the contention being chopped short, Selma and Sasha returned during the Nov. 21 play finale and performed a regular acceptable to a unrecorded mentation of Jordin Sparks' "No Air."
After executing the show to perfection, the full ballroom assemblage erupted successful a lasting ovation.
After the 2022 PCAs, relive the night's biggest moments with E! News co-hosts Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester at 11 p.m. connected E!.
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