Ezra Sosa is displaying his help for his Dancing with the Stars companion Anna Delvey.
Sosa — who was promoted to pro-dancer on the present for season 33 — opened up about the backlash that the convicted con artist, 33, has acquired since being solid on the present.
“I just want to come on here and just talk about my first official show as a professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars,” he shared on TikTok. “What is life? I cannot believe this is happening to me right now.”
He known as it the “best day ever” as he felt “so much love from literally every single person, including my partner.” However, he famous that Delvey didn't really feel the identical help.
“On my end, I was feeling so much positivity,” he defined as he teared up. “On my partner's end, she wasn't receiving the same. I think the hardest part of my day after [the] press line, she was reading the comments and we couldn't find her. They finally found her in the bathroom. She was crying. I've never seen her like that, and it broke my heart.”
“As her companion, I needed to provide her the greatest expertise she presumably may, and realizing that that is not the case, it actually did break my coronary heart,” he added.
The skilled dancer, nevertheless, famous that he couldn't defend Delvey’s felony previous.
Delvey, whose actual title is Anna Sorokin, gained notoriety for posing as a rich German heiress and used her social standing to defraud rich individuals, banks and inns. She was arrested in 2017 and convicted of grand larceny in the first, second and third diploma in addition to theft of companies in 2019.
That May, Delvey was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state jail (which was lower quick when she was launched in February 2021 for good habits), fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000. She paid restitution to her victims utilizing $320,000 she acquired from Netflix for rights to adapt her life story right into a TV collection (which was later titled Inventing Anna and launched in 2022), Insider reported.
Shortly after her launch, Delvey was taken into custody by ICE for violating the phrases of her visa. She has been dwelling below home arrest in New York City whereas combating her deportation case.
“I know what she did was really controversial and was not right,” Sosa shared in his video. “I can never justify that for her and for anyone in her life, it's really hard for me, because this person that I'm truly just falling in love with every single day in rehearsal isn't the person that everyone sees in the media.”
“No one deserves the amount of hate that she's getting right now,” he continued. “She deserves a second chance. She has stepped up to the plate, and I just cannot wait for y'all to see how much she has improved, so tune in this next Tuesday. Dancing with the Stars, and I'll see you there.”
Delvey made headlines when it was revealed on Good Morning America on Sept. 4 that she can be competing for the mirrorball trophy alongside 12 different celeb contestants. While chatting with PEOPLE moments after the information dropped, she revealed that she acquired particular permission from ICE to compete below the situation she would proceed carrying her ankle bracelet.
Earlier this month, Dancing with the Stars showrunner, Conrad Green, defended the collection choice to permit Delvey the alternative to carry out.
“We’ve always tried to be a very broad church when it comes to the types of people, the types of backgrounds, the types of stories we have on the show,” Green advised Variety. “Anna is fascinating to a lot of people, a lot of people have watched the dramas about her life and have followed her story, so I think there is an inherent curiosity about her.”
Noting how the convicted con artist is acquainted with the “world of fashion,” he added that he believes followers will “really want to see her” hit the dance flooring.
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Dancing with the Stars season 33 airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+, with the episode out there to stream the subsequent day on Hulu.
