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Cheryl Burke reveals how abuse at age 9 made her 'hate myself' which led to train-wreck romances

Speaking to Randy Spelling, Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess on their Oldish podcast, Cheryl said: 'Sharna, you were saying,

'[It] was not having a father figure and turning to men who weren't, I guess, healthy, but also I was attracting physical and mental abuse because this is all I knew, so it felt like home. The 40-year-old dancer has spoken in the past about being celibate in the wake of her 2022 split from Matthew Lawrence and she admitted her feelings of trauma is the reason why she hasn't felt ready to date again. As well as being abused, Cheryl also attributes the fact her earliest memory is witnessing her father getting intimate with another woman when she was just a toddler as another reason why she sought unsuitable relationships.

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