Ilona Maher Does not ‘Really feel Dangerous for Crying’ on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ (Unique)

Ilona Maher received weak on Dancing with the Stars this week, and the Olympian has no regrets about it.

Maher is competing on season 33 of the hit competitors collection with associate Alan Bersten, and she broke down in tears after getting slightly off-beat throughout her jive on the Oct. 8 episode.

Days later, the 28-year-old instructed PEOPLE, “It felt very proper within the second.”

“I have been one who actually places issues in after which that was when it burst. After all it was on nationwide tv, so enjoyable for me, however I additionally didn’t really feel dangerous about it. I do not really feel dangerous for crying,” she stated on the opening day of the Delta One Lounge at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.

“I did not carry out how I knew I may and I did not wish to simply be like, ‘Oh, I will get it subsequent time,’ as a result of it was onerous,” she continued.

“I count on higher of myself and I do know I can do higher. And I believe it was simply additionally every little thing coming to mild, every little thing coming collectively.”

Maher additionally stated that the demanding schedule for DWTS hasn’t helped her with the comedown from the emotional evening.

“Tuesday was a extremely powerful evening after which as an alternative of — you’d like to have time to regroup — [but] I used to be again Wednesday. I used to be, at 11 a.m., doing an interview for Dancing with the Stars and I had coaching that subsequent day. So I’ll say it is powerful as a result of I cried in all of the interviews, I cried at coaching. It is like I hadn’t gotten all of it out but. I believe it was nearly only a buildup of a lot occurring.”

The rugby participant — who received bronze with the U.S. girls’s rugby sevens group in Paris this summer season — stated that she needs she had a bit extra time for a “reset” earlier than transferring into week 5 of DWTS.

“It is form of fascinating as a result of now it is like, ‘Okay, perhaps subsequent week you will do higher.’ So I do not know if I’ve totally reset, however I am simply going to attempt to, every day, take the moments that I can.”

In a video she shared as a joint submit with Bersten on Instagram after this week’s episode aired, Maher stated of her efficiency, “That was powerful for me, however I’ve an awesome associate, and we have now subsequent week — they spooked us there, they spooked us slightly bit — however we have now subsequent week to enhance, so thanks all on your help.”

“Please hold voting, I’ll get higher, I swear,” she stated as she ended the video.

Bersten, 30, shared a submit honoring his associate, too. “Phrases cannot describe how proud I’m of you. It takes a lot power to be weak. You have got proven me simply how a lot you care and I’m so grateful to have you ever as my associate,” he wrote on Instagram. “You might be an inspiration to hundreds of thousands, particularly me.”

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Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+ and streams the subsequent day on Hulu.