'Dancing With the Stars' Season 21 Cast: Paula Deen Thinks The Judges Didn't Even Like Her? [VIDEO]
Paula Deen thinks the Dancing With the Stars judges had it out for her from the start.
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Deen was eliminated Monday night from Dancing With the Stars after six weeks of competition. The celebrity chef received pretty low scores from the judges since the beginning and never really improved.
But while Deen herself would even admit she wasn't the best dancer in the competition, she suggested after Monday night's show that the judges didn't like her to begin with.
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"They have been [critical] from the start with me," Deen told E! News after receiving another hard critique from the judges. "It was apparent that they weren't crazy about me being here."
It doesn't seem to bother Deen much, though.
"That's alright. I wasn't dancing for them. I was dancing for all those women out there that are sitting on their sofa," she admitted. "Get up and dance! Get up and dance, girls!"
One thing Deen refused to tell the public was that she was secretly dealing with an injury while competing on the show. She has been dealing with a "meniscus issue," but her partner Louis van Amstel commended her refusal to play the vicitm.
"No one should know because we're not playing that card. We're not going to be the victim. We danced through it all, but now it's time to take care of health," van Amstel advised.
Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Watch Deen and van Amstel's final dance below:
