Hayley Erbert Hough is opening up about life since her medical scare.
Talking to Entertainment Tonight, the dancer, 30, spoke about caring for her well being following her emergency surgical procedure in December 2023.
“I simply take heed to my physique,” Hayley stated alongside her husband Derek Hough forward of their vacation tour, Derek Hough: Dance for the Holidays. “Being a dancer, I really feel like I’m actually in tune with my physique.”
She added, “I do have a medical group nonetheless round.”
Hayley’s emergency surgical procedure got here after she was hospitalized for a cranial hematoma, which is characterised by blood gathering within the cranium. She underwent an emergency craniectomy.
Talking about his considerations in relation to his spouse dancing, Derek, 39, informed ET, “I’m the one who I’m like, ‘What, what?’ ”
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“It’s true, he’s the one with the nerves,” Hayley added, to which her husband continued, “‘We don’t want to try this.’ ”
“And she or he’s like, ‘Babe, I can try this.’ However she places my thoughts comfy,” Derek informed the outlet.
The couple had been in the midst of their Symphony of Dance tour in Washington, D.C., when Hayley was rushed to hospital for a mind bleed.
Earlier this month, Derek recalled how his spouse was nonetheless in her dance costume when she was hospitalized as Hayley made her return to the Dancing with the Stars ballroom with an emotional efficiency with Derek on the Tuesday, Oct. 15 dwell present.
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“It simply all got here to a screeching halt in probably the most devastating manner,” Derek recalled of the second in a video package deal on the ABC present. “I used to be on stage, and she or he’s supposed to come back out. The stage supervisor walked out and simply stated, ‘Hey, she’s not approaching stage.’ She was on the facet of the stage having full seizures and, primarily, dying. It is actually laborious to even put into phrases different than simply pure concern.”
“We rush her to the hospital, she’s nonetheless in her costume, and the physician got here to me and he stated that, ‘She has a extreme mind bleed, so we’ve got to function proper now,'” the DWTS decide continued. “He stated that she may not make it and that even when she does make it, she will not be the identical particular person.”
The duo are set to open up extra about their story in an upcoming documentary, set to be launched in 2025.
“Jason Bergh, he’s an award profitable filmmaker,” Derek informed ET. “He got here into the studio, simply saved filming, saved coming with us to hospital visits, got here out on the highway with us and actually captured your complete journey ‘trigger it’s actually highly effective, it’s actually stunning and it’s wonderful.”
