DWTS' Maksim Chmerkovskiy Denies Hope Solo's "Slapping" Claims
Posted on Fri Aug 17th, 2012 7:55am PDT By X17 Staff
Maksim Chmerkovskiy is fighting back over claims he abused Hope Solo behind the scenes of Dancing With the Stars. Solo, 31, made the accusations in her new book, Solo: A Memoir of Hope.
In her memoir, Solo wrote:
Maksim responded to the accusation with the following Tweet: "Always hated hypocrites and liars, but when someone is both and an opportunist, I just feel bad for them. Can't win at someone's expense."
Hope also claims in the book that Maksim "slapped" her "hard" across the face during rehearsal.
In her memoir, Solo wrote:
- "He manhandled me in rehearsals from the start, pushing me, whacking my stomach, bending my arms roughly. I thought that was just how it went -- how dancers worked with each other. But it kept getting worse. One day, Maks was trying to put me in a certain position and hit my stomach so hard with his open palm that I had a red handprint there for the rest of the day."
Maksim responded to the accusation with the following Tweet: "Always hated hypocrites and liars, but when someone is both and an opportunist, I just feel bad for them. Can't win at someone's expense."
Hope also claims in the book that Maksim "slapped" her "hard" across the face during rehearsal.