Though she was forced to drop out of the most recent season ofDancing with the Stars,Jeannie Maiis still the winner in her mom’s eyes.
“You are the one and only, you can do anything,” the inscription on the trophy read. “Mom’s so proud of Jeannie — the winner in my heart.”
Though there was only one trophy, Mai’s mom promised Armstrong that she would cook for him, in addition to helping him find a date for Mai’s upcoming wedding to fiancéJeezy. Armstrong also said he would choreograph a special dance for the couple.
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Maihad to withdraw fromDWTSin early November toundergo emergency surgery on an abscess in her throat. Now that she’s recovered, she and Armstrong spent some time recounting their last rehearsals together, and expressed their confidence that Mai would have won if not for the medical emergency.
“We really thought we could take that mirrorball down,” said Mai, 41.
“One hundred percent,” Armstrong agreed. “I thought she could win like, a week into it.”
Brandon Armstrong and Jeannie Mai onDWTS.Eric McCandless /ABC via Getty Images
The professional dancer went on to share that their final rehearsal — days before Mai’s surgery — was “garbage” because she was so sick.
“I was like, ‘Okay, why are we here?'” he recalled, expressing that he wanted her to take care of her health. “We were trying to do a stupid Viennese Waltz and a stupid Charleston.”
“Which would have been my first Charleston, [and] which guys, I was about to body,” Mai added. “She was about to smash the Charleston,” Armstrong confirmed.
“I was almost dying in that room but I didn’t know because I was pushing through it and I was hyped up on steroids,“The Realco-host continued, admitting that when she made the call to Armstrong letting him know she would have to drop out of the competition she “was absolutely just enraged” and “kept picturing the other contestants that would be in my place.”
Armstrong, however, said he was less upset, instead focused on his partner’s recovery. “I wasn’t upset at this point,” he said. “I just wanted her to be healthy.”
Brandon Armstrong, Jeannie Mai.Kelsey McNeal/ABC via Getty Images
Speaking to PEOPLE last month, Mai credited Jeezy, 43, forpushing her to seek the medical attention she needed.
“I am very thankful for J, my fiancé, because it was his firmness in, ‘No, you’re going to the ER. We’re not turning the other way,’ where I was like okay — I obliged,” she said. “Because if it were just me, I wouldn’t have made my way to the ER. I would have made my way out to the parking and to go home to just, I don’t know, take something to suppress it to get through another day.”
source: people.com
