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Derek Hough Shares Family Plans With “Miracle” Wife Hayley Erbert (Exclusive)
Hayley Erbert is backmost successful the ballroom.
Nearly 1 twelvemonth aft a harrowing aesculapian emergency, the dancer gave an affectional show alongside her husband, Dancing With the Stars justice Derek Hough, connected the Oct. 15 occurrence of the competition, dancing to “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone arsenic portion of the season’s Dedication Night.
The brace took to the level barefoot, wearing roseate pinkish ensembles portion delivering a graceful and romanticist routine, embracing connected the lyrics "Oh I anticipation I don't suffer you." They finished their creation with a kiss.
The show marked Hayley’s triumphant instrumentality to the bid aft undergoing exigency surgery connected her skull past December to dainty a burst humor vessel. In a pre-recorded conception aired anterior to their performance, Derek opened up astir the scary incident, which occurred during the couple’s Symphony of Dance circuit halt successful Washington D.C.
“I was onstage and she was expected to travel out,” the 39-year-old recalled. “The signifier manager conscionable walked retired and said, ‘Hey, she’s not coming onstage.’ She was connected the broadside of the signifier having afloat seizures and fundamentally dying.”
He continued, "It's truly hard to enactment into words, different than conscionable axenic fear."
After being rushed to the hospital, the So You Think You Can Dance alum—who married Derek successful August 2023 aft 8 years of dating—was fixed a devastating prognosis.
“The doc came to maine and said, 'She has a terrible encephalon bleed, truthful we person to run close now.' He said that she mightiness not marque it,” Derek tearfully remembered, “and that adjacent if she does marque it, she won’t beryllium the aforesaid person.”
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He recalled being told, "You fundamentally mislaid the idiosyncratic that you knew."
The adjacent greeting erstwhile helium saw Hayley, she was missing 40 percent of her skull. And though Hayley was "unrecognizable" physically, she had immoderate of her representation and knew that they had been dancing earlier the accident.
"I can't adjacent archer you, conscionable knowing that she was there, she was successful there, the alleviation I felt," Derek explained portion crying. "She was Hayley. She was my wife. And past the travel began."
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Doctors told Hayley she whitethorn ne'er beryllium capable to locomotion again, but she said successful the DWTS video she was "stubborn" and "determined" to propulsion herself to creation erstwhile more.
"To accidental it was casual to get determination would beryllium a implicit lie," she noted. "He was my stone passim it all."
But pursuing months of recovery, Hayley, 30, was back successful the creation studio successful March, and was given aesculapian clearance to instrumentality to the Symphony of Dance tour successful April.
“What a blessing (and surprise) it is to beryllium capable to beryllium backmost connected signifier dancing with my emotion aft specified a brainsick past 4 months,” she wrote connected Instagram astatine the time. “My healing travel has been thing abbreviated of bonzer and being capable to creation again is igniting my psyche successful each the ways; speeding up my betterment adjacent more.”
For much connected Derek and Hayley’s emotion story, support reading.
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October 2015: Hayley Joins Dancing With the Stars
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert conscionable backmost successful 2014 erstwhile she performed connected his and sister Julianne Hough's tour. A Dancing With the Stars producer is impressed with Hayley and she is called to interrogation to articulation the show's troupe, getting the occupation the pursuing year, according to the Hutchington News. Also successful 2015, she and Derek statesman dating.
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July 2016: Derek & Hayley Step Out
The 2 statesman going retired to nationalist events, including astatine the 2016 premiere of the Tony Robbins Netflix documentary I Am Not Your Guru.
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September 2016: Creative Arts Emmys Governors Ball
The duo get glammed up for a star-studded nighttime out.
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August 2017: Red Carpet Debut
The dancers marque their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine the Television Academy's 2017 Choreography Peer Group Celebration astatine Saban Media Center successful North Hollywood, Calif.
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September 2017: Emmys Date
Hayley joins Derek arsenic his day for the Creative Arts Emmys, wherever helium was nominated for Outstanding Choreography for his enactment on Dancing With the Stars.
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October 2017: Happy Halloween
The 2 be the star-studded Casamigos Halloween Party.
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November 2017: Christmas Tree Lighting
Hayley joins Derek arsenic helium hosts The Americana astatine Brand buying mall's Christmas histrion lighting lawsuit successful Glendale, Calif.
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May 2018: May the Force Be With You
The 2 attend the Hollywood premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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September 2018: Emmys After-Party Date
The mates steps retired astatine HBO's post-Emmys celebration.
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October 2019: They Are the Ones Who Hug
They aren't pumping the brakes arsenic they be the premiere of Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
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February 2020: Oscars Party Date
The 2 airs for pics astatine the Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar viewing party.
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November 2020: Disney Holiday Singalong
Feeling festive, they creation connected the peculiar to ringing successful the Christmas season.
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August 2021: Respect Premiere
The 2 are each smiles astatine the premiere successful Los Angeles.
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August 2021: Emmy Winner
The partners look astatine the Creative Arts Emmys, wherever Derek wins Outstanding Choreography for Variety oregon Reality Programming for his enactment connected Dancing with the Stars.
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March 2022: Oscars Party Dance
The 2 creation arsenic they get astatine the 2022 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars viewing party.
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May 2022: Top Gun: Maverick Premiere
They look apical tier connected the reddish carpet.
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June 2022: Engaged
Hayley flashes her engagement ringing at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
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June 2023: Elemental Premiere
The 2 get cozy astatine the motorboat of the Disney-Pixar film.
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August 2023: Just Married and Honeymoon
The mates honeymoon successful Italy pursuing their Aug. 26, 2023 wedding successful California.
December 2023: In Sickness and successful Health
Derek was by Hayley's broadside arsenic she underwent exigency skull country owed to a burst humor vessel. "It was a clip filled with uncertainty and fear, going from surviving our dreams onstage, to a nightmare successful an instant," helium wrote connected Instagram implicit a week later. "Her betterment process has been thing abbreviated of a miracle."
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