Lennon Torres is an advocate and former competitive dancer, who rose to fame as a child star on Lifetime’s Dance Moms. In an exclusive essay for Us Weekly, Lennon looks back on her experiences as a competitive dancer and on reality TV and accusing both the show and industry of perpetuating child abuse. Us has reached out to Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller and the series’ production company for comment but have not heard back at the time of publication.

It has been three years since a story broke that the mega dance company Break the Floor Productions was exposed for child abuse, and I still haven’t seen the progress needed to ensure these atrocities stop for good. As a past attendee of countless Break the Floor conventions and competitions, the breaking news put a pit in my stomach and sp

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