Dancing With the Stars fans haven't see the last of Kim Zolciak-Biermann!
Though the Don't Be Tardy star was forced to withdraw from the ABC reality hit earlier this season after a mini-stroke prevented her from flying to Los Angeles to perform, Kim and her partner Tony Dovolani will return for the finale.
"I'll be back for the finale, which is so exciting," Kim tells E! News in an exclusive sit-down interview. "Nobody's told me what I'm doing. I gave them kind of a suggestion. I just love everybody on the show, I love the whole network, so hopefully they'll go with what I suggest!"
After their disqualification, Kim and Tony actively supported a fan campaign (which included a petition signed by over 20,000 people) to get the couple into the competition. But the DWTS lawyers didn't budge...and also vetoed another one of Kim's ideas: competing next season!
"I asked about that," Kim reveals to us. "I think was more heartbroken when I asked that question on Sunday, the day before the actual performance, well I can just come back another season, they said you can't because you've already learned the dances."
While Kim agrees with the rules, she admits to us, "I feel like you should have made some kind of adjustment because you've done it for other people in the past," using season 15 champion Melissa Rycroft as an example. "They made the exception for her," she says.
Cleared by doctors to dance but not to fly in time for the performance, Kim had learned her routine with Tony in Atlanta and was hoping the show's legal team would make an exception for her as well. "I thought, well, this is crazy, they're going to use my rehearsal tape," Kim says.
Still, despite her forced exit, Kim tells us she "really loved" her time on Dancing With the Stars.
"I'm not going to risk my life for anything, but it still doesn't make it any easier because I really loved the show," she says. "I love everybody on the show. I love everything about it. I didn't think I was going to love it. I think that's maybe why it's been so hard for me. They've asked me a number of times to do the show, and I always declined, and then I just really fell in love with it."
To hear more from Kim about her controversial exit from DWTS, watch our interview with her above!
DWTS airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on ABC, and Don't be Tardy airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on Bravo.
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