Former Dancing With the Stars pro dancer Cheryl Burke is recalling a frightening experience from her time on the ABC reality competition: She feared for her life when protesters rushed the stage during Season 23 , when she was paired with controversial Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte.

“When I danced with him, he had just [done] the Olympics,” Burke said in the October 2 episode of the I Do, Part 2 podcast . “We also had protesters that came on to the dance floor, and we thought they had guns and they were gonna blow our heads off. It was insanity. Like, during the live show. I’ve never seen our security guard — shout out to David — tackle somebody so quickly.”

In case you missed it, Lochte claimed he and three other swimmers were robbed at gunpoint by men with police badges at a ga

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