It's getting down to the wire for remaining teams on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." During the semi-finals on Monday night, YouTube star Bethany Mota and her partner Derek Hough were eliminated, leaving Janel Parrish and Val Chmerkovskiy, Sadie Robertson and Mark Ballas, and Alfonso Ribeiro and Witney Carson to battle it out for the coveted Mirror Ball trophy.
The winner will be crowned during Tuesday's Nov. 25 episode. According to TMZ, the remaining couples were practicing early Tuesday morning for the live finale when Parrish injured herself. In a video obtained by TMZ, the "Pretty Little Liars" star and Chmerkovskiy were practicing lifts when Parrish burst into tears.
She hobbled off the stage to see a doctor and was told that she either compressed or broken her rib.
"We were doing camera blocking and she injured her rib," Chmerkovskiy said in the video.
"I felt it," Parrish told the doctor. "And I was like oh I could dance through it... and then I just really had to stop moving."
The actress hasn't mentioned her injury on Twitter but said, "It's the last time I'll dance in the ballroom. My experience on #DWTS will stay with me always. So many beautiful memories! Let's go!"
Chmerkovskiy posted a pictured on Instagram of his injured partner and wrote, "To @janelparrish. You are so many things, but the one thing that truly matters is your heart. They can never say you don't have heart, you fought every step of the way. I'm so impressed with you and grateful to have been your partner. I said from the beginning I had the best one, seemed cocky at the time but I meant it enough to say it. I believed in it enough to risk. We didn't always say the right things, do the right things, but we always meant the right things... and for that I'm proud and thankful. Love you J congrats my champ."
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba spoke to TV Guide recently and offered Parrish some advice on what she needs to do to win the Mirror Ball and said she hopes the 26-year-old tones down her sex appeal a little bit.
"I really want to see her grounded, but also light in her performance. I don't want her to get so serious and so gritty that we lose the lightness and the fun factor of the dance... [Even though] she's beautiful and sexy when she dances, she's so much more than that. So I just urge her not to rely on that in her finale, because she is so much more than that."
