Anna 'Delvey' Sorokin speaks out after dramatic exit from 'Dancing With the Stars'
Anna "Delvey" Sorokin believes ABC’s 'Dancing with the Stars' judges and its loyal viewers never gave her a 'fair chance' to succeed.
Anna “Delvey” Sorokin’s pivot from notorious high-society scammer to competitive dancer ended abruptly on Tuesday evening after her first-round elimination from ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”
Following her short-lived stint on the reality TV show, the convicted felon spoke exclusively with NBC News about the backlash she endured over her casting — and the wild way she exited the competition.
“I feel that the show so obviously used me to drive up the ratings, that they never had any plans to give me any chance to grow and only cared about exploiting me for attention,” Sorokin wrote in an email. “It was predatory of them to try [to] make me feel inadequate and stupid all while I did get progressively better yet they chose to disregard that.”
Representatives for “Dancing With the Stars” did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Sorokin was convicted in 2019 of duping friends and financial institutions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while masquerading as a German heiress. This month, amid her ongoing immigration case for overstaying her visa, ABC announced Sorokin would be among the 13 pop-culture figures to participate in the dance show alongside actress Tori Spelling and U.S. Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik.
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