What was it like for you to work with Corbin Bleu in the last dance? How did you two get the look that you wanted and the mood that you wanted for that?

Well, throughout the whole process, we were creating this chemistry because he was my partner throughout, except for 24 hours when Tyler Cameron was Johnny and I was Baby. And so I really think it was an evolution throughout the whole competition where we just became more in sync. Our chemistry kept building and getting better and better every day. We were getting very close as friends as well. I felt safe immediately with Corbin, not being intimate with a man, much less anyone else except someone I was married to for a very, very long time. I think that he made me feel so safe from the very beginning. I felt like I was in great hands. I was so lucky to get him as my partner from day one.

Twitch really matched up, I think, a great couple in us, and our personalities, the way our work ethic, our focus, our intensity, our perfectionism, worked well together. We had a great chemistry, and we built an amazing friendship that lasts today. This whole cast was incredible. I have to say Fox did a great job putting together, to me, one of the best casts I've ever worked with.  have a very long TV career, so that's saying a lot. We're still all friends. We're all on a text thread together. We talk all the time. We support each other and everybody's endeavors. We're always rooting for each other. Literally every single one of us, we all became family. That was the best part of the whole show.

Winning feels amazing. Trust me, it feels really good to win, and we worked really hard, Corbin and I, for that win. I know that as you see in the finale, we didn't ever nail that lift until we had to do it in front of the audience. We never got the lift completely, so that was the only moment in the competition where I felt uncertain, and Corbin felt uncertain, and I'm sure that everyone else felt uncertain about whether we were going to be able to nail that lift or not. It was an incredible feeling to get that lift. When it was really the most crucial time to nail the lift, we actually did it.

Corbin is such an incredible dancer. He's an incredible actor. He brought out the absolute best of me. I couldn't have asked for a better partner on the show, even though all the guys were great. Howie, Antonio, Tyler, they were all incredible Johnnies in their own way, but I felt like I got so blessed to be partnered with Corbin.