In the Oct. 28 episode of Dancing With the Stars, host Alfonso Ribeiro announced that contestant Elaine Hendrix would not be performing that evening.

“She suffered an injury in rehearsal this morning,” Ribeiro told the DWTS audience. “Right now, she’s at the hospital being assessed.”

That evening, the season 34 contestant revealed more backstory in a video posted to her Instagram. According to Hendrix, she had been hospitalized after an intense Dancing With the Stars practice session with partner Alan Bersten left her in severe pain. In the video, the 54-year-old actress is shown wearing a robe and lying in a hospital bed.

“Hi, so, obviously, I’m not in the ballroom,” Hendrix says to the camera. “I injured my ribs during ‘Defying Gravity’ and today, they just seized up, and I couldn’t m

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