{"id":6554,"date":"2026-06-23T18:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jana-kramer-nearly-quit-dwts-mid-season-over-partners-rude-behavior\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:31:58","slug":"jana-kramer-nearly-quit-dwts-mid-season-over-partners-rude-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jana-kramer-nearly-quit-dwts-mid-season-over-partners-rude-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Kramer nearly quit &#8216;DWTS&#8217; mid-season over partner&#8217;s &#8216;rude&#8217; behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F131946720.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jana Kramer candidly revealed she nearly quit \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d after dealing with her partner, Gleb Savchenko\u2019s, alleged \u201crude\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOne Tree Hill\u201d alum recalled her brutal experience on Season 23 of the competition series in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-whine-down-with-jana-kram-29262403\/now-playing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on a recent episode of her \u201cWhine Down\u201d podcast. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmotionally, that show wrecked me,\u201d she told guest and former \u201cBachelorette\u201d Hannah Brown. \u201cI struggled with the Russian.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jana Kramer shared she almost quit \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d due to her partner Gleb Savchenko\u2019s alleged \u201crude\u201d behavior. (Seen above: the duo on Season 23 of the series,) <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress (seen above on the dance show) got candid about her experience on Season 23 of the series on her \u201cWhine Down\u201d podcast.  <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Explaining that she struggled with the way Savchenko, 42, taught, Kramer, 42, added, \u201cYeah, I was like, \u2018Do not speak to me that way, period.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t show this on the show, but I was like, \u2018I\u2019m done. I quit. Yeah, I know that you can keep filming me. Don\u2019t care he\u2019s being rude, and I\u2019m not having it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, you can push me so far, [then] I\u2019m like, \u2018We\u2019re done here.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cEmotionally, that show wrecked me,\u201d she said. (Seen above: Kramer and Savchenko.) <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI struggled with the Russian,\u201d Kramer added, referring to Savchenko (seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite bumping heads with Savchenko, who has been a seasoned dance professional on the series since 2013, Kramer knew his intentions weren\u2019t meant to be mean, explaining, \u201cHe wanted to win too, and we were close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress and the dance pro secured fourth place, with Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and pro Valentin Chmerkovskiy coming in first.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 31, who competed on Season 28 of \u201cDWTS\u201d with pro Alan Bersten, 32, in 2019, echoed similar sentiments, sharing, \u201cThere would be times in the studio where he would try to teach me a step and I could not move my feet because I was so scared of messing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kramer (seen here) claimed she struggled with the way the dance pro talked to her. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThey didn\u2019t show this on the show, but I was like, \u2018I\u2019m done. I quit. Yeah, I know that you can keep filming me. Don\u2019t care he\u2019s being rude, and I\u2019m not having it,&#8217;\u201d Kramer (seen above) added. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bachelor Nation alum admitted that she had \u201ctantrums\u201d while working with Bersten because she was \u201cfrustrated\u201d with the way he talked to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then you have to realize that\u2019s how they were talked to, that\u2019s how they were coached, and so that\u2019s all they know, and it\u2019s really hard when you\u2019re not used to that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Brown and Bersten took home the Mirror Ball Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer, meanwhile, isn\u2019t the first celebrity to admit she had a difficult time on the dance series. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ultimately, Savchenko and Kramer won fourth place. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Guest Hannah Brown also opened up about her woes on the show with dance pro Alan Bersten. (Seen above: Brown and Bersten on Season 28). <span class=\"credit\">ABC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, icon Priscilla Presley, who competed in 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/06\/entertainment\/priscilla-presley-shades-dancing-with-the-stars-partner-louis-van-amstel-could-not-wait-to-get-kicked-off\/\">revealed she \u201ccould not wait to get kicked off that show\u201d <\/a>because her former dance partner, Louis van Amstel, was too distracted by his new relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so nervous because \u2026 my partner, who I liked very much, was in a new relationship with another guy,\u201d she said in May, per Us Weekly. \u201cHe had a date, and he wanted to get this and that, and I was a little bit frustrated because he put that before us. I felt we could have done a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Season 35 of \u201cDWTS\u201d is gearing up to air on ABC and Disney+ in September 2026.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/23\/celebrity-news\/jana-kramer-nearly-quit-dwts-mid-season-over-partners-rude-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Kramer candidly revealed she nearly quit \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d after dealing with her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131946720.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}