Carrie Ann Inaba is speaking out about critique of her judging and scoring on Dancing with the Stars.
She told Variety, “I don’t really understand it, but I’ve come to terms with it. Now that I’ve come to terms with it, now I can speak about it. Sometimes, I’ve looked at the scores that are given, I read the comments back and think, ‘Well, what did I do? Let me see.’ Sometimes I check! Like people blamed me about Danielle Fishel going home, and I had to look back at the scores. My scores were not the lowest scores. So, that’s fans passionate for Danelle, and I can see the positive in that. And if they come at me for scoring Whitney and Mark Ballas well, it’s because they love Alix Earle. There’s always a positive to even the most negative comments.”
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About if she’s harsher on women than men, which is a narrative that can sometimes be seen online, she responded, “I think that it is partly true. I am the woman on the panel, and I understand what it is to be a woman, so I can get into more detail about what I’m seeing. Because I support women so much, I let them know what I see, because they are working so hard, I always feel it’s my responsibility if I sense somebody hasn’t given it their all, because I don’t want them to walk away with regret. I’m not saying I always know right, because none of us are ever 100% right. But I’m willing to risk that, and speak to them so that they have the opportunity to grow. And when I speak woman to woman, I’m maybe a bit more frank. Maybe because I feel like women are tougher than men in some ways. This is how I speak with my girlfriends — very blunt and to the point, because I know they want the information. I think there is some truth to what they’re saying, but it’s not exactly what they’re saying.”
She continued, “But I have read the comments, and I have always taken them into consideration. I go back and I review, and I try to understand why it feels that way. But in general, I think people are tougher on women. And what’s funny is they’re accusing me of being tougher on women while they’re being tougher on a woman.”
And how this all impacts her, she shared, “It has definitely made me struggle with mental health. I’ve spoken to therapists about it. I remember when I first went to therapy about it, I said, ‘How do I approach this?’ And she’s like, “Well, what do you believe in?” I said, ‘I believe in truth.’ She helped me figure out how I was going to show up, and said I should just always step into my truth each time. And so by doing that, it makes the online hate and vitriol that comes at me feel less like it can hurt me, because I’m very true to myself. When you’re true to yourself, it doesn’t matter as much what everybody else is saying about you.”
Source: justjared.com
