Abby Lee Miller Talks JoJo Siwa & ‘Dance Moms’ Legacy _ Behind The Easel
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00:00Everyone's replaceable.
00:01Pay attention, kids.
00:02And there they were, outside, drunk, broke,
00:04bitching about everything.
00:06Had they told you what you're going to paint,
00:07I can tell you.
00:08I'm going to paint whatever I want.
00:09Jesus, this is like a real thing.
00:11I thought I was just pretending.
00:12Did I paint?
00:13Yes, now you can go ahead and start painting.
00:15Yes?
00:15OK.
00:21Dance Moms was stressful.
00:22I was at a competition and bumped into an old friend,
00:25a kid that had competed against my kids.
00:27Took him to a hotel where my kids were competing.
00:30I looked at him and his jaw was like this.
00:33And I said, what's wrong with you?
00:35And he said, Abby, these kids are adorable.
00:38They should be on television.
00:40I said, yeah, let me introduce you to the mothers.
00:43You're a liar.
00:44This is her real story.
00:45Lying for her teeth.
00:46Laurieann, this was not to get in the dance.
00:48This was actually to bring closure
00:50to what she was feeling.
00:52But do you hear how cuckoo for Coco Pebble Pops you sound?
00:56And there they were, outside, drunk, broke,
00:59bitching about everything.
01:00You had too much to drink.
01:01Oh, whatever.
01:02You better settle it down.
01:03Bitch.
01:06Stop, stop, stop.
01:07Stop, bitch.
01:08Stop.
01:09I'll kick your ass.
01:10Stop, stop.
01:12Sorry, I'm sorry.
01:13Go ahead, bitch.
01:15The biggest misconception is that the kids had a contract.
01:19Not true.
01:20Because it was supposed to be a six-week docuseries.
01:22The production company never put it through the courts.
01:25They didn't get it right the way
01:26they should have for the kids.
01:28So the moms were under contract, but not the kids.
01:30They could have walked at any time.
01:32But nobody walked until they had a better offer.
01:35Asia's been offered amazing opportunities back in LA.
01:38And I would be dumb not to take them.
01:41And I think her days here at ALDC are finished.
01:44You had some pretty iconic lines throughout Dance Mom.
01:48No, I never said that.
01:49Yes, you most certainly did.
01:50No, I didn't.
01:51Dang bat, listen.
01:52I want to sit back and relax and enjoy my evening
01:56when all of a sudden I hear this agitating, grating voice.
02:01Do you have a favorite signature catchphrase?
02:03Oh, well, everyone's replaceable.
02:05Everyone's replaceable.
02:06You know that.
02:08Yep, even dance teachers.
02:10There are also a lot of iconic scenes from Dance Moms.
02:13You preach theater etiquette to my kids.
02:15Put your phone away.
02:19You preach theater etiquette.
02:20Put it away.
02:21One of my personal favorites is when you tell the producers
02:24that you're leaving to Baskin-Robbins,
02:26but then you actually go to the police.
02:27I did go to Baskin-Robbins after that, though.
02:30Hi, Abby.
02:31Where are you going?
02:32I don't know.
02:33I think I'm going to go to Baskin-Robbins.
02:34What do you remember about trying to escape production
02:37in that moment?
02:38It was just getting out of the doors,
02:40because a lot of doors are not handicap accessible, right?
02:43We're going to have to speed up a little.
02:48She's zooming, dude.
02:49Abby, what are you doing?
02:50I'm filing a police report.
02:52Nobody is going to verbally assault me
02:55at a dance competition.
02:56So it was rough being alone.
02:59You have to count on other people
03:01to get out of the building.
03:03This dancer just messed up my big flower garden hair bun.
03:06OK.
03:07I have been dying my hair since I was like two,
03:10maybe one and a half.
03:11I'm not a natural blonde.
03:13I'm actually a natural brown.
03:14I get brown roots, so I have to dye it
03:16so it looks like I'm a natural blonde.
03:18JoJo has done other reality shows.
03:21She gets it.
03:22She gets that we were putting on a TV show.
03:25The other kids, I still sometimes think
03:28they don't realize that it was a TV show.
03:30It was their life.
03:31You know what I mean?
03:32They were just little girls.
03:33It was their life.
03:34JoJo came into it through Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition.
03:36They brought her on to Dance Moms.
03:38She's done all this stuff.
03:39And she knows half of it's making a TV show.
03:45You got to do what works.
03:46So she gets it.
03:47She learned.
03:48And she's also grateful.
03:49And she knows that being on Abby's Ultimate
03:53and Dance Moms created a platform
03:55for her to take off with.
04:01She's grateful.
04:02As I think everyone should be.
04:03Have you spoken to Maddie and her mom recently?
04:05No.
04:06No.
04:07No, no, no.
04:08You're really talking about the bad subjects.
04:10No, we're-
04:11Let's talk happy and good.
04:12I'm turning.
04:13You're doing scandalous stuff here.
04:15On the bottom.
04:17Paige.
04:18You were good.
04:19I'm waiting for you to be great.
04:20Next.
04:23Nia.
04:24You're third on the pyramid.
04:25You were third overall high score.
04:27And on top of the pyramid,
04:28going three for three,
04:31once again,
04:33is Maddie.
04:34So you are known for the pyramid.
04:36I have to ask.
04:37Who are your top three celebrities that you're loving?
04:39And how would you rank them on your pyramid?
04:42Oh my god.
04:43Robert Redford in the way we were.
04:45I want that guy in that military,
04:47sailor, navy uniform.
04:49That officer uniform.
04:51In that bar.
04:52Sleeping.
04:53Move over Barbra Streisand.
04:54Let me at him.
04:55Tom Cruise.
04:56All the right moves.
04:58George Clooney
04:59in something
05:0120 years ago.
05:02How about current celebrities?
05:03Top three.
05:05Oh god.
05:06I don't even know any current celebrities.
05:08Me?
05:09Timothee Chalamet.
05:10Do you know who that is?
05:11Oh my god, yes.
05:12He was wonderful in the-
05:13The Bob Dylan movie.
05:14Bob Dylan movie.
05:15I loved him in that.
05:16Yeah, but he's kind of a little guy.
05:17What celebrities do you think are the best dancers?
05:20Billie Eilish was a competition dancer.
05:22Contemporary.
05:23Zendaya.
05:24Definitely.
05:25But we don't see her dance a lot.
05:26They don't utilize her dancing at all.
05:28J-Lo.
05:29Do I get in trouble for that?
05:30Shakira.
05:31Nah.
05:32Shakira kind of does what Shakira does.
05:34I don't know if I gave her a lyrical,
05:36she could whip it out.
05:37Beyonce.
05:38Yeah, yeah.
05:39I'm going to get in trouble
05:40if I say people are pigeon-toed.
05:42So I can't.
05:43I need all these celebrities to quit sickling their feet,
05:46learn how to bevel that ankle,
05:48and pose correctly.
05:49How about the kids?
05:50Why aren't I working with Northwest?
05:53Why aren't I working with Blue?
05:56Pay attention, kids.
05:57Blue Ivy.
05:58Northwest.
05:59A great dancer was Heidi Klum's daughter.
06:02Fabulous.
06:03She was on my competition team here in L.A.
06:05when I first opened my studio.
06:07Wonderful child to work with.
06:08Just in the family.
06:09Seal.
06:11When he comes in to talk to you,
06:13there is nobody else in the room.
06:14He looks at you like you are the only woman
06:17that's ever mattered.
06:19He's quite charismatic, that man.
06:22Shiloh, yes.
06:23I mean, Shiloh, Blue Ivy, and Northwest.
06:27Give me that trio.
06:28Five, six, seven, eight.
06:41Some incredible dancing.
06:43I feel like the mentors that came on
06:45to put the kids through their paces were excellent.
06:47The season one reunion was insane.
06:50How was it for you,
06:51kind of literally being in the middle of these dancers
06:54going at it,
06:55and how were you as mediator, do you think?
06:59I just let them go at each other.
07:00I don't know.
07:01A lot of the things they were talking about
07:03happened in the house without me.
07:05So sometimes I didn't even know
07:06what they were talking about.
07:07We're doing a time check.
07:08How's it looking so far?
07:09Oh, like a big hot mess, but it's okay.
07:12I was talking.
07:13I was talking, sweetie.
07:15This is my recovery, redemption, relive.
07:21We have flowers, we have sun,
07:22and we have the Abby Lee Dance Company
07:24logo dancer in the background.
07:26It would have been better
07:27without the cameras in the conversation.
07:29So we have grass, we have big plants,
07:33beautiful flowers, kind of.
07:35And then we have my logo dancer,
07:37and that girl is actually Amanda Stiletto.
07:39Madhouse season two is out February 27th
07:43on Brandon TV.
07:44And that season nine you've been waiting for,
07:48Abby Lee Dance With Me,
07:49is out on my YouTube the first two episodes
07:53on April 1st.
08:07And I'll see you next time.