![EXCLUSIVE: Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller doesn’t flinch as a gymnast SOMERSAULTS over her during an outing to an LA beach. The reality TV star, 55, bravely lay back in her wheelchair as the muscular shirtless performer ran towards her then vaulted above her. Miller, who shot to fame as the star of hit show Dance Moms, has been using a wheelchair after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from her spinal cord after reportedly being diagnosed with a form of cancer called Burkitt Lymphoma. Miller’s visit to the beach in Santa Monica, CA, saw her talking to a man and a woman dressed in workout gear before giving him a series of dance lessons. An onlooker said: “Abby was in great form and started giving the guy dance lessons. "She was teaching him to move and how and when to move his feet and it seemed he was struggling to get the hang of it. It was like she was back on the show Dance Moms and was shouting orders at him to ‘move to the side’ or ‘back right’. She appeared to be trying to teach him ballet just like she did to kids on the series. “It looked the guy had some gymnastic training and so afterwards they did a stunt where he ran at her and somersaulted directly above her.” Miller spent eight seasons on Dance Mom and previously taught Joelle Joanie “Jojo” Siwa. In 2017 she was sentenced to 366 days in prison for bankruptcy fraud. 31 Aug 2021 Pictured: Abbey Lee Miller. Photo credit: KAT/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342 (Mega Agency TagID: MEGA782922_021.jpg) [Photo via Mega Agency]](https://preprod.hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Abby-Lee-Miller-Spotted-In-Wheelchair-MEGA-1.jpg?quality=100&w=282)
![EXCLUSIVE: Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller doesn’t flinch as a gymnast SOMERSAULTS over her during an outing to an LA beach. The reality TV star, 55, bravely lay back in her wheelchair as the muscular shirtless performer ran towards her then vaulted above her. Miller, who shot to fame as the star of hit show Dance Moms, has been using a wheelchair after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from her spinal cord after reportedly being diagnosed with a form of cancer called Burkitt Lymphoma. Miller’s visit to the beach in Santa Monica, CA, saw her talking to a man and a woman dressed in workout gear before giving him a series of dance lessons. An onlooker said: “Abby was in great form and started giving the guy dance lessons. "She was teaching him to move and how and when to move his feet and it seemed he was struggling to get the hang of it. It was like she was back on the show Dance Moms and was shouting orders at him to ‘move to the side’ or ‘back right’. She appeared to be trying to teach him ballet just like she did to kids on the series. “It looked the guy had some gymnastic training and so afterwards they did a stunt where he ran at her and somersaulted directly above her.” Miller spent eight seasons on Dance Mom and previously taught Joelle Joanie “Jojo” Siwa. In 2017 she was sentenced to 366 days in prison for bankruptcy fraud. 31 Aug 2021 Pictured: Abbey Lee Miller . Photo credit: KAT/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342 (Mega Agency TagID: MEGA782922_032.jpg) [Photo via Mega Agency]](https://preprod.hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Abby-Lee-Miller-Spotted-In-Wheelchair-MEGA.jpg?quality=100&w=440)
Abby Lee Miller has been living in a hotel while waiting for her new apartment to be ready, and it’s caused her major stress as the world waits out the coronavirus pandemic. “I was living in a hotel and my hotel closed,” Abby explained to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “So they sent me to another hotel, but they gave me the wrong information. When my guys got there with all my stuff, they said that it was closed, [too].”
Finally, she got put up in a hotel that fit her needs, but she may be homeless once again very soon. “I came here and I’m all good, got a great room and I have a huge terrace and it’s wonderful,” she revealed. “But now they’re telling me I have to move tomorrow because someone who often stays here is coming into this room.” Abby has an apartment to move into, but unfortunately, she can’t go there yet, either. “My apartment is brand new and it’s not expected,” she said. “The city has to come and inspect it and sign off on the floor, the whole building. And they haven’t, so I can’t move in.”
At the time of our interview, Abby had no solution. “You ask me what I’m going to do? I don’t know what I’m going to do!” she admitted. “It’s awful.” On top of that, Abby is still in a wheelchair from spinal surgery that she had in 2018. The procedure left her unable to walk and with a scar down her entire back. She started to re-learn how to walk in the summer of 2019, but is still wheelchair-bound months later.
“I’m handicap, so it’s very difficult to feel safe, like, in a bathroom, and this and that,” Abby said, explaining her quarantine fears. “It’s a nightmare.” However, she’s confident that she’ll be able to get through this. “I survived prison and the wheelchair and cancer,” she explained. “God is trying. He needs me for something. He keeps trying to get me and I keep scooting out of it somehow!”
Unfortunately, the quarantine regulations mean she hasn’t been able to get her usual physical therapy. “There’s more work to do,” she said. “These legs need to be straightened and feet to be pointed.” Check out our full interview with Abby in the vide above!