Although Dance Moms is classified as an unscripted reality television show, viewers have been skeptical of that claim for some time. The play is full of drama as the players often clash with their peers. Former Dance Moms students, including Maddie Ziegler, have revealed whether the show was written in the past few years.
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Is Dance Moms a scripted show?
Although none of the alumni have specifically stated that Dance Moms is the screenwriter, several have confirmed the fact that what is shown in the film is not how things really are.
Ziegler previously revealed to USA Today that much of the conflict between the moms on the show is fictional.
“It’s hard to produce a reality show when there’s so much moaning and drama.” “The producers set it up so that we were all yelling at each other,” she explained.
“Remember what I said about that mom fight? Moms fake fights here and there. After that they just start arguing and laughing about it.”
The real story of dance moms
Payton Ackerman, as well as Dolph Ziggler, spoke about it. She told how she ended up in the show in a video published on her YouTube page.
Ackerman explained that she was at the facility taking a dance class when people from the show invited her and her mother to come back so they could film the Lifetime reality show.
But because Ackerman and her mother drove an hour to get to her class. Her mother refused and became irritated.
“She went downstairs and opened the studio door … and it started to sound like it was going to activate,” she recalled. “She said, ‘You’re not going to waste my money, you’re not going to waste my time, you’re not going to waste her time.’
Throughout the incident, behind Ackerman’s mother was a cameraman who “loved the drama.” The next day, Ackerman and her mother were invited to the taping of an episode of Dance Moms. Several other alumni also stated that while not everything mentioned on the show was true, sometimes people meant every word they said.
In the aforementioned video, Ackerman also discussed how her portrayal on the show hurt her image in real life.
When she competed in the first episode, the producers asked her if she believed she was better than the other contestants (other groups).
Ackerman agreed
However, when the show aired on television, it was manipulated to appear. It was like she was making a statement about the other girls she danced with.
“Everyone who saw the episode after that hated me,” she explained. “The women from the series turned on me. In preparation for the show. The other mothers turned against my mother. It was a really crazy race.”
The abuse she was subjected to continued until she finished filming the series. People were ringing her home phone in the middle of the night. Several of them knocked on her family’s door.
Her situation worsened to the point where she received death threats. However, this is not the only topic that former members of the show spoke about. Many others also commented on how aggressively Abby Lee Miller, the show’s dance instructor, yelled at them, suggesting her behavior was even worse off camera.
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Source: HIS Education