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Babyface on His Dancing With the Stars Exit: At Least I Got to Make My Mom Proud

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By Chris Harnick Oct 05, 2016 4:01 PMTags
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Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is done with Dancing With the Stars, but that's OK with him.

"I'm really looking back at the whole experience at this particular point and how amazing it was to be able to dance, to be able to fulfill my vision, my dream of dancing for my mom and making her proud," Babyface told E! News after his elimination.

Babyface and pro partner Allison Holker danced the tango to The Beatles' "Come Together" during week four, Cirque du Soleil week, and received an 18 out of 30. The singer credited his dance partner for making him look good.

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"Even though Allison made it look like I really had it, inside it was a scary thing for me and it was," Babyface admitted. "I just had to kind of keep facing it every day. Every time when it was time to do the performance I was like really scared and really nervous…"

He said muscle memory got him through the dances, but he hopes to one day get to a point where every part of him is dancing. The duo received their highest score of the competition while dancing to The X-Files theme in week two.

Vanilla Ice was also sent home during the double elimination. Week four also saw the first perfect score: Olympian Laurie Hernandez received 10s all around from the judges.

Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays, 8 p.m. on ABC.