Maddie Ziegler Exposes the Reality of Dance Moms

It’s funny that people shame Maddie for not talking about Dance Moms. THIS is why. Abby keeps invalidating her experiences and her fans jump down Maddie’s throat for being “ungrateful” even though Maddie literally credited Abby in the interview for training her and helping her and even mentioned before that she’s grateful to Lifetime and Abby and acknowledged that she wouldn’t be where she is today without them.

"If it was so toxic why'd you keep doing it?" Because she was under a near unbreakable contract. You know the same reason you used to torture Chloe.

YAY UR BACK

Everyone's comments are so long lol

How can Abby deny she never put pressure on the kids to "win win win", when she said on very many occasions "2nd place is the first to lose" If they didn't get first in the group, she would blame just the kid who's Mum had pissed her off that week!! For example Chloe!!

How come I cant find the interview I can only find the taste test?

Every body told that Maddie is so ungrateful but clearly it seems like she had to suffer the most :(

Maddie only did it because her mom wanted her to, didn’t she?

Honestly I blame Melissa more than anyone else. Melissa should have seen the effect that it had on Maddie and Mackenzie and should have pulled them out immediately. Yes they signed the contract but they could have still swung it or sued them for something. Instead Melissa wanted the fam instead of kids who just wanted to be kids 😭

i know this is very on topic with the video but does anyone know the font used? i really like it !!

I found out in a video that most solos didn’t end up in the final cut and Maddie was really young when she first started dancing. I find it really rude that someone would put so much pressure on a young kid. Also most of the show was scripted but the fights were real.

Team Abby.

Abby is such a lier. We all watched tell these girls not to make friends with their counterparts n that anything less than 1st place is not good enough. N u will just sit there n dismiss this? U r unbelievable. Shhhh

Not to hate is her face edit

team maddie

Abby trained her but team Maddie!

team Maddie for sure bc Maddie was to young to understand that not winning wasn't the end of the world or being friends with your competitors or to feel no emotions so I don't blame her and she got rooted to fail by thousands of fans, I blame Abby and the producers Maddie was just a child and she does not need that much drama in her life when she's that young :(

It doesn't get anymore narcissistic than Abby Lee Miller.

im on nobody’s side, there’s pros and cons to the situation, abby stated in one of her videos that she did with gianna that the producers knew NOTHING about dance and that they would choose the music and give abby and gianna a dance and a limited amount of time to teach the choreography to the children. i understand that maddie went through a toxic environment as the producers made her out to be a brat on the show and stuff. abby never ever intended to hurt the children + she states that Paige is a wonderful, sweet little girl with an amazing talent, on the show she shouts at Paige and makes her feel bad about herself, the kids weren’t set up to fail by abby, the producers made abby come off that way and that’s why the kids were hurt. the kids also stayed because they signed a contract that their pretty much near the point of not being able to leave the company. these girls worked so hard so I understand why many of them don’t talk to abby, but again, abby isn’t at fault, she didn’t intentionally want to hurt the children, the producers made her come off thag way. abby and gianna didn’t choreograph the dances, the producers would throw dances at them and say “hey here’s a dance, here’s the style, there’s the music, you have 45min” and that’s when abby and gianna had to teach the children. all abby wanted was to have a little bit of recognition, maddie is a talented dancer and so are the other girls, maddie worked hard on the show and obviously worked to work with sia and have a brand with fabletics after the show but she most likely wouldn’t have the recognition she does now without abby. jojo talks to abby and came to see her after abby got diagnosed with cancer, jojo said on an interview that she wouldn’t be anywhere near where she is now without abby. the kids were set up to fail by the producers not abby and gianna

What r u talking about she never said any of that stuff in her interview

Treated the best but complains the most

team MADDIE all the way !!!

but like even if abby never said if you don't come first you are less than, she still yelled at the girls every second of every day and would say things like I'm so disappointed in you! the abby lee dance company is a first place studio! You were sloppy and terrible I'm surprised you didn't do worse! so like come on abby this time you need to suck it up and admit you cost these people thousands of dollars worth of therapy.

I’m so proud of how far she came, but it really took some terrible stuff to get there. Why people even allowed this or Toddlers and Tiaras on television is just…beyond me. When it comes to things like Keeping Up with Kardashians, or The Real Housewives — that drama and crap is their choice to prod cast and it’s okay because they are *consenting adults*. The kids on T&T and Dance Moms were unconsenting, uninformed children and their parents.
I really do think their parents were uninformed; or things like walkout scenarios wouldn’t have ever been seen.
Because when it comes to contracts, who expects that anyone in their right mind would rope a child into that?
No one.
And they shouldn’t. Because it should be illegal.
Child performers deserve the same protection as child actors and rarely see them when it comes to fair hours, fair pay, and fair contracts overseen by people looking out for their current and future health.
I hope for Maddie’s sake and the next generations, that this starts to change. ❤

It’s not Abby or Maddie.It’s the stupied producers that make things how they are.Nobody is to blame accept the producers.

Both there all right

abby’s response is literally why maddie doesn’t speak to her lol

team maddie

The blame should be placed upon Melissa, NOT ABBY. A mother is your first teacher, protecter and number 1 advocate. You get one childhood and their mom's tossed the dice with theirs. Are they successful, sure but was it worth it to still battle a competition long over? Hell no💔🫶🏼They were just little girls doing what they were told by their only hope, their own mothers and its truly the moms who should have stopped it. So sad, I hope they have all mended and forgiven to move forward. Wishing nothing but health and happiness to all involved.

i cant wait for maddie to write a book or a documentary. i want to hear her side so bad.

Team Maddie of course
She was the victim through out the episodes.
Its so sad how she is always put under pressure. Melissa caused most of it, because she let Abby have her own way of doing things.
I will always be on team Maddie no matter what.

L Abby W Maddie, chole, Paige, brooke, and nia
All I want SO BAD is a reunion of Abby and the original team. With apprenses of other people on the show like Kendal, Kalani, nakaya, vivi Ann. All of the moms as well. No drama, just talking and recapping.

Para que suben videos con los comentarios limitados?...

Sometimes when you are a little kid you don't control what you when you dances

Abby is the most toxic person to appear on tv. That is why Abby Lee Miller is the only person from Dance Moms that I don’t follow on social media even if she might be “better” now. For someone to be that cruel to children, I don’t want anything to do with them and I really don’t care to know what she’s doing in life. All I care about is those poor girls and I’m happy they are healing and moving on with the people that do care about them now. May God bless all of those girls and I genuinely hope they all continue to have great adult hoods since they were sadly robbed of their childhoods 🥺

I recently watched the episode where Maddie and Mackenzie competed in their very last dance with the girls. Abby had no final words for them. No "I'm proud of you", no tears or hugs, nothing. She even insinuated that the girls moving on from the ALDC wasnt necarassily bigger or better. A couple days before the last competition, Holly asks Abby if she has anything special planned for the girls' last day, and Abby simply responds "no, nothing." Maddie is even seen in a interview on the show saying that it seemed like Abby didnt care that this was their last day on the team. And from a viewer standpoint, this is very obvious. Melissa is seen storming off, saying "I'm leaving." Holly encourages Abby to give some final words to Maddie and Mackenzie, quoting "Its the last time they walk out that door." And the rest of the moms are encouraging Abby to "go talk to her friend" regarding Melissa who had just stormed off. Abby does neither of the two. I think this might have been the icing on the cake (on top of the abuse and ongoing toxic environment) that propped Maddie and Mackenzie and as well as Melissa not to pursue contact with Abby after leaving the ALDC. It definatly wasnt the grand farewell I was expected for Abby's 2 "favorite" students and I don't think they were expecting it either. I found it very prideful and disrespectful of Abby. They gave 6 years of their lives and put her name on the map, and THAT was the thanks they got?? No wonder they dont want to talk to her.

Team abby beacause now she relies that it was wrong

Maddie is act.

‘If it was so toxic, why didn’t you leave?’
Hmmm, let me think… because she, her sister and mum were locked into a contract and couldn’t leave even if they wanted to?

i miss ur videos :( <3

After all of the girls been saying how manipulative and disgusting the producers were to them..they’re lucky those girls haven’t named dropped them

Maybe the contract-
She tried to leave in season 3 but couldn't
Also I feel Abby is obsessive over Maddie still...
Do you agree or do you agree?

Abby always told the girls that 2nd place was the first to lose. They've all lost something. Maddie, we've seen here, Nia and Chloe and to a certain extent Kenzie have mentioned body image issues, Kalani suffers from depression and body issues... the only ones that seemed to escape were JoJo and Brynn but they weren't there nearly as long. It's sad. Paige and Brooke have moved on without dance and although they don't discuss it I'm pretty sure they have PTSD because watching the reunion Kelly literally started crying and blaming herself for not taking them out earlier. I kind of wish they'd take the show off the air, most of the cast including the minis are at least 16-- I think Liliana might be 15. It's like they can't get away from their past. No one ever really asks about Vivi and I'm wondering what's happened since the show for her.

the reason Maddie didn’t answer these questions sooner and distanced herself was bc she realized how Abby would react

Maddie all the way… also Maddie has thanked and gave credit to Abby and the show plenty of times.. this wasn’t the first. Talking about the show gives her anxiety still… she doesn’t like to talk about it… that’s protecting her mental health not to constantly get into talking about the show bc of all the bad that came with it