EXCLUSIVE: Val Chmerkovskiy and Normani Kordei Talk Perfect 'DWTS' Score Despite Her Injury
EXCLUSIVE: Normani Kordei on Back Injury and Perfect Score With …
Kim Kardashian Feels Like a ‘Failure’ Because of Divorce, Dove C…
‘Lucifer’ 5B: Tom Ellis and Lauren German on Deckerstar and the …
Machine Gun Kelly Dyes Tongue Black and Makes Out With Megan Fox…
Tina Knowles-Lawson Gushes Over Spending Quality Time With Her G…
‘American Idol’ Winner Chayce Beckham on How He’s Celebrating Hi…
90 Day Fiancé: Loren and Alexei Open Up About How Tourette's Has…
North West Pokes Fun at Mom Kim Kardashian For Fangirling Over O…
‘The Masked Singer’: Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg on His S…
2021 Billboard Music Awards: Backstage With the Night’s Biggest …
Drew Barrymore Reacts to Her First Daytime Emmy Nomination (Excl…
Kim Kardashian Says She Didn't Pass First Year Law School Test
Ariana Grande Shares First Wedding Pics, What to Expect From ‘Fr…
Angela and Vanessa Simmons Talk 'GUHH' Season 6: Daniel Jacobs R…
Shania Twain Wants to Sing in a Trio With Blake Shelton and Gwen…
'Friends' Reunion: Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer Admit Re…
Chris Harrison Exits 'Bachelor' Franchise Following Racism Contr…
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Relationship Is Still 'Pretty Em…
Bachelor Nation Reacts to Chris Harrison’s Exit From Franchise
‘New Amsterdam' Stars Ryan Eggold and Jocko Sims Share Dream Sto…
Val Chmerkovskiy and Normani Kordei are clearly the pair to beat this season on Dancing With the Stars.
The duo's incredible Argentine tango earned them a perfect score on Monday night after continuously coming close to it, and ET caught up with the pair to get their glowing reactions.
"I've been waiting on it," Kordei told ET's Cameron Mathison and our special correspondent, DWTS season 21 champ Bindi Irwin.
Chmerkovskiy was also touched by judge Len Goodman's kind words after the dance, after Goodman previously held off on giving them a perfect score.
"It feels awesome, it's nice to finally build a relationship with someone I’ve listened to for the last seven years," Chmerkovskiy noted. "And it's nice for him to validate my work as a teacher and her work as a performer."
The perfect score is even more impressive given Kordei experiencing serious back and hip pain -- though you wouldn't know it from the way she danced.
"It all fell into place," Kordei said. "It happened the way it was supposed to, so I'm grateful."
"I just have to remind myself this is fun, this is something that I’ve always wanted to do, and I only have one shot to do it," she continued about her injuries. "It's been a struggle. I'm a lot better than yesterday even. I had some therapy earlier, and I've been icing it and taking a bunch of medicine, so I'm in the process [of healing]."
Of course, there's no rest for the competitive duo.
"First of all, we want to make it to the finals, we're not there yet," Chmerkovskiy stressed. "Once we do, we just want to do a performance that captures our energy and spirit. I think it should be fun. I think it should be a celebratory performance. And I think hopefully by then, we would have done every other genre where we could afford ourselves to come out and just have a blast."
Watch Kordei and Chmerkovskiy's perfect performance below:
Related Gallery
