Selma Blair Says Joining DWTS Marks a "New Chapter" in Her Journey With Multiple Sclerosis

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Selma Blair is putting connected her dancing shoes up of Dancing With the Stars' 31st season, which volition watercourse connected Disney+ this fall.

Selma Blair Reveals Why DWTS Is Her "New Chapter"

Selma Blair is acceptable to get her creation on. 

The Legally Blonde actress is acceptable to vie connected play 31 of Dancing With the Stars this fall, alongside partner Sasha Farber. "I'm truthful excited," she told E! News exclusively connected Sept. 9. "I'm truthful happy, truthful invigorated by this. I'm idiosyncratic that historically mightiness person a small dread for things—no dread!"

Selma said she's motivated successful portion by the enactment of her friends, household and adjacent her Instagram followers, who person been cheering her connected arsenic she battles aggregate sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with successful 2018. "This is simply a caller section of increasing my stamina and truly healing," she added. "Not conscionable healing, but uncovering spot and support."

The actress continued, "It is for the viewer, due to the fact that that is what's fixed maine support. In acheronian times successful my life, determination person been radical that came forward—strangers connected the thoroughfare oregon Instagram... I'm doing it for them."

More than that, it's important for Selma that she represents radical with disabilities, particularly if it's connected a amusement arsenic large as Dancing With the Stars. "Kindness and visibility is truthful important, to explore, beryllium funny and exposure radical to differences of code oregon movement," she explained. "It's for everyone astatine location that it resonates with."

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And portion Selma is looking guardant to dancing herself, she's conscionable arsenic anxious to spot her competitors, including Jordin Sparks and Teresa Giudice, shingle and shimmy connected the floor. "I'm going to beryllium cheering radical truthful much," she said. "I deliberation I'm going to person to retrieve to prevention my vigor for everything that want to do."

Dancing With the Stars premieres unrecorded connected Disney+ Sept. 19.

-Reporting by Charles O'Keefe

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