Cheryl Burke is “setting the record straight.”
Two weeks after social media users called out the former “Dancing With the Stars” pro’s “new face,” she addressed the “wild” and “challenging” rumors in a candid TikTok video.
“Let’s just address the elephant in the comment section,” the dancer, 41, told her followers on Sunday.
“I’m not on Ozempic. I’m not sick,” she clarified over the weekend. “I didn’t get a face transplant, and no, I didn’t get a brow lift.
“The level of projection that is happening and that I’m witnessing is wild,” Burke continued, blasting haters for gossiping about her as if she isn’t “a person” — and for comparing her current looks to her younger self.
“I hate to break it to you, but that Cheryl doesn’t exist anymore,” the choreographer declared. “The assumptions are just exhausting as hell.”
She went on to call comments “completely cruel,” especially the “shocking and hurtful” digs from other women in the online “firing squad.”
The “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast host requested those who wish to “speculate, compare, or demand answers that [they are] just not entitled to” leave her page.
“My face has changed because I’ve changed. I’ve experienced so much trauma, divorce, and this is by no means a pity party,” Burke noted, referencing her split from Matthew Lawrence. “Sobriety, burnout, reinvention, I’ve healed, I’ve lost, I’ve grieved like anybody else.”
“Maybe it shows, but I’m not sorry for it,” she quipped.
Burke concluded, “This is me at 41, I am still healing, still growing and still choosing to show up. … If you’re here to evolve, unlearn, to support, welcome.”
The “Dance Moms” alum summed up her lengthy statement in the caption, which read, “Stop dissecting women’s bodies like they belong to you. This is YOUR reminder: I don’t owe you an explanation for my healing or for anything quite frankly. Let this be the last time I have to say it.”
Burke was labeled “unrecognizable” earlier this month after posting makeup-free footage.
She also hit back at trolls in April over claims she looked “too thin” despite previously being branded “too heavy.”
Burke insisted last month that she has “never felt more alive,” ” more grounded” in herself and “more at peace” in her body.”
She said, “People will watch a 30-second video and think they know everything about you, your health, your worth [and] your story.”
