Despite the drama that played out on the show, Abby emphasized that it wasn’t all bad for her girls.
“There were good times, and it was fun,” she added. “And they loved what they were doing.”
But she does feel that Dance Moms was ultimately detrimental to her career. “What the show did, and the moms did ruined my business,” she noted. “They destroyed by business.”
But for its young cast, amid the tears and the tension on the dance floor, the experience created bonds for life.
“I don’t think people know that we’re friends,” Kalani recently told E! News. “And there’s so many different storylines on the show between our mothers that people just tend to think that we all hate each other, or that we picked sides with different people. But we’re actually all super close.”
Adding, “It’s a trauma bond.”
And JoJo echoed the statement.
“It really is,” she said. “Whether that be a good trauma or a bad trauma. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a negative thing, but there’s just such a familiarity.”
Keep reading to find out what the former cast of Dance Moms is up to now.