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Selma Blair given perfect 40 score as she bows out of Dancing with the Stars

"I can’t go on with the competition,” says Selma Blair, as she is showered in adulation for her achievements.

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Actor Selma Blair was forced to drop out of Dancing with the Stars USA on medical advice.

Blair told her partner, Australian Sasha Farber, that she couldn’t continue due to health concerns connected to her multiple sclerosis. The duo hugged close while watching the package from inside the ballroom.

“I had these MRIs and the results came back and it just all adds up to… I can’t go on with the competition,” she said. “With a chronic illness, you do have special considerations, and my body is definitely taking a hit. It’s way too much for the safety of my bones. There’s just intensive bone trauma and inflammation … I could do extensive damage that, of course, I do not want.”

The pair performed one last “gentle” dance, a waltz set to “What the World Needs Now” and received a perfect 40 score from the judges.

Each professional dancer, celebrity and judge lined up to hug to Blair before she exited.

“From day one of joining this show and knowing Sasha before that some, this has been such an awakening in ways that I didn’t think would happen in my lifetime,” she told Variety.

“I didn’t think I’d even have this earnestness in my lifetime to genuinely want to do this and for risk of embarrassment. Forgetting my disabilities or my chronic illness, I wasn’t an accomplished dancer at all. So it’s always scary to put it out there. Seeing how every dancer that has come on this show this season has been truly a top-notch star, that makes me realize something really big about our perceptions of people or certain shows or what we think. This is gold here. What these celebrities and pros put together is real passion of some kind of self-love, acceptance and performance. It’s a really wonderful reminder and to be embraced by these people, my heart is broken in the best way.”

Blair, who revealed her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis 4 years ago,

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