The 52-year-old TV personality gets candid in a new episode of Cheryl Burke's 'Sex, Lies and Spray Tans' podcast.
"I was crushing on Derek, for sure," she revealed. The confession received a shocked response from Cheryl, who noted that Derek often told her how"hot" he thought Brooke was at the time.
"I would have had an affair with him," she continued."But listen, let me tell you why: You are intertwined with someone's body when you're not a dancer. There is no way that I have ever been so connected -- besides with a lover or a husband -- than I was with Derek. And it's every single day. ... So for three months, you are in someone's arms. Why do you think people fall in love? You smell them, you feel them, you're breathing with them.
"I knew his young mind. I knew he wasn't competing to win. I knew it was an opportunity for both of us — I was there to get to know America in a different way. I think he was there because it was a great gig as a dancer, it was big for him. I don't think people sign up for to win the Mirrorball Trophy -- it's not even attainable, you don't think it's possible.
Brooke noted that she"could have tapped out," but David urged her to set a positive example for her kids. The former couple, who separated in 2018 and finalized their divorce in 2020, share Heaven Rain, born in 2007, and a son, Shaya Braven, born 2008. Brooke is also a mom to daughters Neriah, born in 2000, and Sierra, born in 2002, whom she shares with her first husband, Garth Fisher.
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