Hayley Erbert Hough opens up about living with her medical scare.
Speaking with Party tonightThe 30-year-old dancer opened up about taking care of her health after emergency surgery in December 2023.
“I just listen to my body,” Hayley said alongside her husband Derek Hough ahead of their holiday tour, Derek Hough: Dance for the Holidays. “Being a dancer, I feel like I’m really in tune with my body.”
She added: “I still have a medical team.”
Hayley’s emergency surgery came after she was hospitalized for a cranial hematoma, which is characterized by a pooling of blood in the skull. She underwent an emergency craniectomy.
Speaking about his concerns when it comes to his wife’s dancing, Derek, 39, said yes ET“I’m the one who’s like, ‘What, what?’ ”
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Hayley Erbert Hough and Derek Hough perform on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on October 15, 2024.
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“It’s true, he’s the one with the nerves,” Hayley added, to which her husband continued, “‘We shouldn’t be doing that.’ ”
“And she’s like, ‘Honey, I can do that.’ But she calms me down,” Derek told the newspaper.
The couple were in the middle of their Symphony of Dance tour in Washington, DC, when Hayley was rushed to hospital with a brain haemorrhage.
Earlier this month, Derek recalled how his wife was still in her dancing costume when she was hospitalized while Hayley returned to Dancing with the stars ballroom with an emotional performance with Derek on the live show on Tuesday, October 15.
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Hayley Erbert Hough in April 2024.
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“Everything just stopped in the most devastating way,” Derek recalled of the moment in a video package on the ABC show. “I was on stage, and she was about to go on stage. The usher came out and just said, ‘Hey, she’s not going on stage.’ She was on the side of the stage in full fits and basically dying, it’s really hard to describe in other words than sheer fear.”
“We took her to the hospital, she’s still in the costume, and the doctor came to me and said, ‘She’s got a serious brain bleed, so we have to operate right away,'” DWTS the judge continued. “He said he might not make it and even if he did, he wouldn’t be the same person.”
The duo are set to open up more about their story in an upcoming documentary set to be released in 2025.
“Jason Bergh, he’s an award-winning director,” Derek said ET. “He came to the studio, just kept recording, kept coming to hospital visits with us, went on the road with us and really captured the whole journey because it’s really powerful, it’s really beautiful and it’s amazing.”
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