Cheryl Burke (born May 3, 1984) is an American dancer, model, and television host. She is best known for being one of the professional dancers on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, where she was the first female professional to win the show and the first professional to win twice and consecutively. She has participated in 23 seasons.
Cheryl Burke’s divorce
On February 23, 2022, after three years of marriage, it was announced that the pair were separating. She admitted to Good Morning America in October 2020 that she “was a party girl” when she first moved to Los Angeles. However, she has referred to Lawrence in the past as her “rock” and the person who has helped her sobriety. She credits Lawrence with helping her balance her schedule. Lawrence has appeared in a number of movies, and television shows, including the hit 1993 film Mrs Doubtfire and the series Boy Meets World.
The Dancing With the Stars pro and the Boy Meets World alum began dating in 2007 before going their separate ways a year later. The couple reconnected in February 2017 and quickly started planning their future together. The Mrs. Doubtfire actor asked Burke to marry him a month later, in May 2018, with the same diamond her late father, Steve Burke, gave to her mother.
Burke, who chose to become sober shortly after getting engaged, said that Lawrence had been her “rock” amid her sobriety journey. “I don’t know where I would be without him,” she said on an October 2020 episode of Good Morning America. She later reflected on her relationship with the Jumping Ship actor in a December 2020 YouTube video. The dancer noted that her history of “dating abusive men” stopped when she met Lawrence, whom she married in May 2019. Her relationship with Burke was the first relationship. Someone was nice to her and allowed her to feel comfortable. However, the couple filed for divorce in February 2022 and asked for privacy from her loyal fans as she dealt with her “personal issues”. According to a source, the divorce was due to disagreements over starting a family.
Her divorce has been ‘scary’
The Dancing with the Stars professional spoke about the new developments in her life in a video that was shared on her Instagram account on Thursday, where she expressed that she was growing more in tune with herself. She mentioned that she had been working with Kati Morton, a youtube therapist, to launch a program to help people understand their minds as she did.
Burke went on to admit that due to the physical nature of her competitive career, she is used to ‘pushing through’ her emotions but is now ready to ‘feel her feelings’ following her split from the Boy Meets World actor. The dancer also stated that she was attempting to be more honest with herself and to come to terms with her own thoughts.