Derek Hough, Hayley Erbert Perform on ‘DWTS’ After Brain Bleed

The Oct. 15 episode of “Dancing With the Stars” was “Dedication Night time,” which meant the tears had been already flowing… after which Derek Hough and spouse Hayley Erbert took the ground.

The married duo celebrated her return to the ballroom with an emotional routine to “Stunning Issues” by Benson Boone, marking Erbert’s first time again following her emergency craniectomy.

Forward of the routine, the “DWTS” decide defined that simply three months after the 2 acquired married in August 2023, whereas the pair had been on their joint Symphony of Dance tour, their lives “got here to a screeching halt in essentially the most devastating approach.”

“I used to be on stage, and he or she’s supposed to come back out. The stage supervisor walked out and simply mentioned, ‘Hey, she’s not approaching stage.’ She was on the facet of the stage having full seizures and, primarily, dying. It’s actually exhausting to even put into phrases different than simply pure worry,” the longtime pro-turned-judge mentioned in a video bundle that aired Tuesday night time.

Erbert was rushed into the hospital for an emergency cranial hematoma.

“The physician got here to me and he mentioned that ‘She has a extreme mind bleed, so we now have to function proper now,’” Hough mentioned, choking again tears. “He mentioned that she won’t make it and that even when she does make it, she received’t be the identical particular person. They informed me, you mainly misplaced the individual that you knew… I simply keep in mind laying on the hospital ground simply begging. I used to be like, please don’t go.”

He mentioned she was “unrecognizable” the subsequent morning and was lacking 40% of her cranium. Nonetheless, she remembered that the pair had been dancing earlier than she landed within the hospital, and he felt so relieved he had his spouse again.

After the pair carried out in the course of the newest “DWTS” episode, Hough shared that the pair had been truly capable of dance on stage in entrance of medical doctors and nurses in Washington, D.C. following her restoration.

“Afterward, the medical doctors got here as much as us and mentioned, ‘Hey Derek, it is a miracle.’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah it’s.’ He mentioned, ‘No Derek, it is a miracle,’” Hough shared on Tuesday night time. “He actually felt the load of simply how exceptional this lady is and her dedication and her spirit. You encourage me a lot. She’s unimaginable.”