'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Charity Lawson says she got death threats, 'went through hell' on show
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"Bachelorette" star Charity Lawson opened up about receiving death threats for just "existing" during her time on "Dancing with the Stars."
Lawson, who starred on season 20 of "The Bachelorette" after appearing on Zach Shallcross' season of "The Bachelor," says the criticism and bullying she endured on the dance competition show "hit me like a ton of bricks." "For not performing enough, for being conceited, for being entitled, for being the biggest b--- on the cast. No, it’s crazy. Like I'm telling you this and for anyone that doesn't know I'm saying this too, this is like the first time I'm openly talking about it…The only thing I've ever shared in terms of like the treatment I got on the show was the statement my brother put out at the end of the season." "It's almost like skewing the viewers to perceive me in this way of like, 'All she cares about is scores … She thinks she's better than everyone.' But I'm like, at the end of the day, I don't think I'm better than anyone, I'm just trying to get to the point where I feel like I should be, or honestly, where my handwork has taken me." Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.
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"I came into the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ fan base, and I was like, ‘This is gonna be a piece of cake,'" she recounted. "Only to be, like almost to the point where it was so much worse than ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette,’" she shared. "I was getting death threats for like, existing."