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After being identified with a number of sclerosis in 2018, the Legally Blonde actress shared her well being journey with the world when she joined the forged of Dancing With the Stars‘ thirty first season.

“It is a new chapter of rising my stamina and actually therapeutic,” Blair advised E! Information of becoming a member of the Disney+ competitors sequence in September. “Not simply therapeutic, however discovering power and assist.”

She added, “It’s for the viewer, as a result of that’s what’s given me assist. In darkish occasions in my life, there have been those that got here ahead—strangers on the road or Instagram… I am doing it for them.”

Although she was pressured to exit the competitors early per her docs’ suggestions, noting she might threat in depth injury to her physique if she continued, Blair delivered one final “lovely dance” together with her accomplice, Sasha Farber, fittingly set to “What the World Wants Now.”

And in December, Blair gained Competitors Contestant of 2022 on the Individuals’s Selection Awards, the place she delivered an emotional speech.

“That is sort of an enormous deal for me,” the 50-year-old stated. “I’ve been on this city a very long time. I’ve so many superb mates that win issues like this. This feels so superb and I can not imagine the folks gave me one thing after giving me a lot the previous couple of years of studying join and to really feel supported by folks. It means a lot.”