Dani Dyer reveals horrifying moment 'freak accident' ended her Strictly journey

Dani Dyer has revealed that pulling out of Strictly Come Dancing has been "testing for her mental health" as she reflected on her injury. The Love Island winner was forced to pull out of Strictly just days after the launch show after injuring her ankle.

Speaking to her dad Danny on their podcast, Live and Let Dyers, Dani admitted: "As you know, I haven't really left my bedroom. It's been hard. I've been forced to lay and I haven't had any ambition."

Danny added: "You've been laying and reflecting and crying." Dani went onto say that she's only now able to talk about the ordeal."

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After Danny asked how the "freak f**king accident" happened, Dani said: "Basically I fell and rolled my ankle. Initially I heard a noise but I thought, 'I think it'll be fine.'"

She later went for an MRI and discovered that there was a hairline fracture on her ankle. "We got a second opinion and I said, 'Physically, what can we do? Can you jab it? Inject it?' I'm not a mopey person but the doctor said to me that if I continue dancing on this foot, it's not going to heal.

"It's just going to get worse and worse and worse and then we'll have to medically withdraw you." Dani added that she would not have been able to wear heels for the first few weeks and the bosses at Strictly didn't want her to risk impacting her recovery. 

"They said, 'Listen Dan, we have to withdraw you. It's just not worth it because you're going to be in so much pain.'"

Dani added that her friends threw her a party for the launch show - but she didn't attend as she was dealing with her injury. "I said, 'Girls, I'm injured - I don't even know if I'm going to be there.' I couldn't even enjoy the launch show."

She said that on Monday evening, the welfare team rang her to say she couldn't compete due to her fracture. "I rung Nikita and Nikita didn't speak for two minutes. He was just in complete shock. We were just so devastated by it," she said. 

"That's why I couldn't leave the house because I knew if someone asked me, 'Are you ok, Dani?' I would just cry. For me, mentally, it's been a really testing time."

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