Dancing's Mya: I'm Not Mad at Len Goodman

Tue., Nov. 3, 2009 11:18 AM PST by Marc Malkin

It seems Len Goodman has it out for Mya and Dmitry Chaplin. Week after week, the resident grumpy judge of Dancing With the Stars always finds something wrong with their performance.

But Mya isn't letting it get to her. "If I fell on my face I might be embarrassed, but I'm happy and proud of myself for coming this far," she told me this morning. "I don't care what other people have to say."

Besides, Mr. Goodman isn't Mya's biggest concern right now—the flu is! It's already struck Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer. Donnie Osmond also talked last night about feeling a bit under the weather.

Yikes!

Find out what Mya has to say about staying healthy, meeting Cloris Leachman and next week's plan to perform two dances.

You must be pretty nervous about getting the flu.
I'm very nervous about it. Your immune system is down when you don't get any rest, and it's very demanding now and the pressure is so on. But they did give us B-12 shots last week.

How much fun was it when Cloris Leachman showed up at rehearsals?
Man, I had a ball with her. You didn't even get to see the bulk of what really went down.

Like what?
X-rated! [Laughs]. I can't even say, but it was pretty entertaining. She did a lot of interesting things.

What's up for next week?
We have a samba and a quickstep. It's two dances per couple. I'm not exactly sure how it's going to go down. You have to shut everything else down and learn the steps, perform it, make it look easy and then sit there and take the criticism.

Should we even talk about Len? Are you just so over him?
I'm not over him. He likes what he likes. I haven't figured it out yet, but I'm not mad at him.

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