Cheryl Burke: My ex-boyfriend 'whipped me with a belt' while his parents watched - Page Six

Cheryl Burke claims her ex-boyfriend erstwhile whipped her with a loop successful beforehand of his parents, whom she says did thing to assistance her.

The “Dancing With the Stars” pro elaborate the alleged “graphic” acquisition connected “Red Table Talk,” wherever she and hosts Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris, successful summation to an adept psychologist, discussed trauma bonding astatine length.

“In precocious schoolhouse — I’ll ne'er hide — the idiosyncratic I was with connected and disconnected for astir 4 years whipped maine with a belt,” Burke, 38, said successful Tuesday’s preview of the upcoming Facebook Watch episode.

“And I had bruises each implicit my legs,” she went on. “I retrieve his parents were watching it — didn’t bash anything.”

The choreographer clarified to the horrified women, “And it wasn’t similar helium was hitting me; helium was whipping me.”

Her occurrence volition aerial successful afloat connected Wednesday.

Cheryl Burke claims her precocious schoolhouse fellow erstwhile whipped her with a loop portion his parents watched.Red Table Talk/Facebook

Trauma bonding is, according to PsychCentral.com, “the enactment of an unhealthy enslaved betwixt a idiosyncratic surviving with maltreatment and their abuser.

Burke celebrated 4 years of sobriety successful August, six months aft filing for divorce from Matthew Lawrence.

“My father passed away [in March 2018], and my dada was an alcoholic,” she shared successful a September 2020 occurrence of the “LadyGang” podcast. “So either I was gonna clang and pain and cheque myself into rehab, oregon I was gonna conscionable discontinue acold turkey.”

The dancer described herself arsenic a precise “black oregon white” person, explaining, “That’s conscionable my personality.”

She said she came to the realization that she wanted to halt drinking astatine her and Lawrence’s engagement party successful May 2018.

“I had bruises each implicit my legs. I retrieve his parents were watching it — didn’t bash anything,” Burke told big Jada Pinkett Smith.Jordan Fisher

Unfortunately, the matrimony did not enactment out, and she called it quits aft little than 3 years.

“There isn’t truly an casual mode to denote that my matrimony is ending,” Burke told her Instagram followers in February. “Thank you each for each the benignant words & enactment you’ve fixed maine — emotion you all.”

Burke, who has been sober for 4 years, filed for divorcement from Matthew Lawrence successful February.Getty Images for Race To Erase M

Via her “Burke successful the Game” podcast, the ABC prima has kept her fans up to velocity connected her emotions post-split, letting listeners cognize that though she’s felt “kind of lonely” astatine times, it hasn’t been “easy” for her to conscionable caller people.

Meanwhile, Lawrence, 42, was spotted with TLC vocalist Chilli in Hawaii successful August, but the actor’s rep insisted that the 2 are conscionable friends.