Sophie Davant, eliminated from “Dance with the stars”: “The week was painful and difficult”

She is the second to get out of the 14th season of “Dance with the Stars” after Nelson Monfort the previous week. After missing her start of choreography, this Friday, February 28 live on TF1, Sophie Davant obtained with her partner Nicolas Archambault, the worst note of the evening, finding himself opposite to Claude Dartois that the public finally chose to save. The day after a difficult evening, she shared with us her feeling on the phone.

How are you ?

Sophie Davant. I went to bed late, it was not easy. It was a little sad to leave this great adventure, but it’s life. I would have found unfair that my competitor was eliminated, so it is in the order of things. The level was very high. And then, I was a little destabilized by the report broadcast before and which was very moving, William Leymergie (his companion) Coming to a visit during rehearsals, and also by the emotion of the week. I lost my means at the beginning of the choreography, it’s a shame but it’s so …

I was wrong on my first two steps, however the easiest. Afterwards, I had trouble resuming but I continued, but it was normal for the judges to sanction me for this error … I got back, but it’s difficult, we are not robots. Each time, I went very late, you have to keep the influx, you cool, you see all the others pass. Instead of taking full advantage of the moment, I put myself a lot of pressure stupidly. I wanted to do, honor the work of my dancer. The performances before me were great, it added to the pressure. If in addition, we are moved, this is the result. It’s the game, it’s competition …

Did you think it would be so difficult?

I suspected it would not be easy, but I didn’t think it would be as intense. Physically, I suspected it, and I did not suffer too much, on the contrary, I was happy to go to training every day. It was a bit of colo, there was a good atmosphere. I have always been used to a daily rhythm, it did not displease me to find it … What surprised me is the psychological difficulty, the resources to be found to revive from one bonus to another. I missed my first dance, I was desperate, I had to find energy to start again. And so on … that’s what surprised me the most, to have to go and draw deep into me to find these resources. Last night, I didn’t know.

It was a special week, you said …

Yes, the week was a little painful and difficult in emotions with the stop of William’s channel. We share our emotions and the fact that he is there last night, the day his channel stops, I was both happy and very affected, very moved. And it hampered me.

How did you experience this adventure?

Above all, as a challenge towards myself, not as a competition vis-à-vis others. Basically, the difficulty of this show is to give the best of yourself at the right time. This is what I could not manage last night when honestly, I had really progressed. I was happy with rehearsals, I told myself that if I was doing as well at the right time, it was going to pass. Like last week when, despite fear, I succeeded. But there were not all the emotions that we have garnered this week …

In the end, we see you going to see William Leymergie, what are you saying?

I will see him because I am moved he is there. You know, every day of the week, he presented his program and every day, a columnist sent him a message of gratitude, of thanks. There have been tears every day. By proxy, this emotion, I felt it, it was not easy to live. And now, at more than 11 p.m., fatigue and emotion won. But sincerely, I was still relieved. It’s very hard to find yourself at the face of someone against someone with whom we just spent a month in a troop.

You say to the microphone that you would have given your place to Claude Dartois if the public had decided to recover you …

Sincerely, I would have done it. I would have found it unfair that he was not qualified and I think I would have given him my place. I would have preferred to give him my place by giving the maximum with good grades, at least I would have been proud of myself. But in this context, anyway, I would have given him my place. These are not words like that, I sincerely experienced it.

On the networks, you were a little heckled during this participation …

It is always sad to see that those who harm the condition of women are ultimately women who criticize for trivialities. Basically, they reproached me for wearing a dancer outfit at my age! To dance a samba, you have to wear a samba dress. It was not I who chose it. I found these criticisms very violent and unfair, it saddened me that it comes from women, rather than being united. After these are the networks, it is a spiller, surely a way of expressing his bitterness and his jealousy. But there were as many positive comments as critics, and last week, I only had compliments. There, this morning, I did not look …

It’s a bit of egism as they say …

I experienced this adventure to prove myself things to myself and then to say to women my age: why not you? It is not because we are 60 years old that we have to go to the hatch and be inactive, not to start this kind of challenge. This is what I wanted to demonstrate a bit and I am very happy for Charlotte de Turckheim that she is still there, I am proud of her and I say bravo. It is she who carries this torch now!

What are you going to remember from this experience?

First an experience of summer camp, meetings with people that I really enjoyed. I saw how great the great athletes had a foolproof mind. I did not see a group of competitors who developed the hatred of the other, but quite the opposite. We were very united and that is beautiful. I also saw a war machine, this incredible production, these magnificent paintings, this crazy barnum that is “dance with the stars”. I am happy to have experienced it as a professional.

And to go to TF1, how was it?

I was very well received, very well accompanied. They were happy that I was there and me too. I totally bent to the requirements of the adventure, it was interesting to live.

Next Friday, will we see you with a false beard on the set?

Well the question arises, in any case, I find that it would be a nice running gag, that all the losers arrive with a mustache or a false beard … (This Friday evening, we saw Nelson Monfort appear falsely camouflaged under a beard postage, then mustache). Why not ? I would find it pretty funny.