@obumNah, the fallout started when Carrie Ann Inaba critiqued a prohibited lift involving Val Chmerkovskiy's wife and Harry Shum Jr. things got messy after Val brought up the Will Smith Oscars slap incident in a post about that dispute. he is stepping back to own the mistake. he reached out directly and personally to apologize to Carrie Ann but knew he needed to go public too because his words landed way outside their circle. he expressed deep regret for making that specific comparison, acknowledging how far it traveled. His full statement reads: "I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my recent post. I have reached out to Carrie Ann to apologize directly and personally, and I also want to apologize publicly as I understand my words affect so many outside of our internal DWTS family. I should have never made the reference that I did and I deeply regret it."

@obumNah, the fallout started when Carrie Ann Inaba critiqued a prohibited lift involving Val Chmerkovskiy's wife and Harry Shum Jr. things got messy after Val brought up the Will Smith Oscars slap incident in a post about that dispute. he is stepping back to own the mistake. he reached out directly and personally to apologize to Carrie Ann but knew he needed to go public too because his words landed way outside their circle. he expressed deep regret for making that specific comparison, acknowledging how far it traveled. His full statement reads: "I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my recent post. I have reached out to Carrie Ann to apologize directly and personally, and I also want to apologize publicly as I understand my words affect so many outside of our internal DWTS family. I should have never made the reference that I did and I deeply regret it."