Maks Chmerkovskiy shared his honest thoughts about the possibility of returning to the Dancing With the Stars ballroom.

“I think that boat has sailed,” Chmerkovskiy, 45, said during an Access Hollywood interview with his wife, Peta Murgatroyd, a fellow DWTS pro. “My comeback is in the distant past.”

Chmerkovskiy explained that his hesitation doesn’t come from doubting his dancing abilities. “Can I do it? I’m looking forward to so much more dancing out of my body,” he continued. “I’m in maintenance every day for the last 25 years. I don’t see where that’s going to go, and I’m looking forward to creative processes. But I think Dancing With the Stars is a moving entity, and it just needs to move. And we all just moved a little bit [in] different directions.”

While he wasn’t “saying that I

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