Derek Hough is sharing an encouraging and provoking well being replace about his spouse, Hayley Erbert Hough, following her a number of surgical procedures and traumatic mind damage.
Hough walked the crimson carpet on the premiere of Jennifer Lopez’s new musical cinematic expertise, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, and the Dancing With the Stars choose spoke with ET’s Kevin Frazier about his spouse’s well being journey.
“She’s unbelievable,” Derek gushed. “When I married her, I knew she was strong, but I really didn’t realize how strong she really was until now.”
“I’m just, I really am in awe of her everyday,” Derek added. “She’s incredible. She really is a miracle and I don’t really throw that word around lightly, but she really is.”
Hayley was rushed to the hospital on Dec. 6, after she grew to become “disoriented” throughout a efficiency on the couple’s Spectacular Symphony of Dance Tour. Derek revealed on the time that Hayley had suffered a cranial hematoma.
In response to the Mayo Clinic, a cranial hematoma is “a collection of blood within the skull. It’s usually caused by a blood vessel that bursts in the brain. It may also be caused by trauma such as a car accident or fall.
Hayley subsequently underwent two skull surgeries to treat the cranial hematoma, and has been working hard to recover from the frightening incident that could have cost her her life.
“It has been a loopy time, however I let you know what, it has been a tremendous and exquisite time, as a result of all of the little wins, the triumphs, it is simply unbelievable,” Derek told ET. “She’s wonderful.”
Hayley’s hospitalization came just a little more than three months after the couple tied the knot in late August, in front of 106 guests in a redwood forest in Monterey County, California.
However, before Derek exchanged vows in real life, he was pretending to get hitched to Jennifer Lopez as part of her This Is Me… Now: A Love Story project — a fictionalized reimaging of the singer’s storied love life, in which Derek plays one of her previous husbands.
“I imply, I just about simply lived out a fantasy of mine, so it was nice,” Derek joked of his role in the project. “It is at all times an honor at any time when Jennifer calls you and she or he desires you to be part of one thing, whether or not or not it’s on World of Dance — that we labored collectively — or with this. I am at all times joyful to indicate up for her in any means I can.”
“She’s so nice to work with and we even have the identical type of circle of creatives round us,” he added. “So it is like household, it is actually superior.”
According to Derek, when they shot his part of the project, he wasn’t married yet, but still in the planning stages, and he asked Jennifer for some advice and feedback.
“In between takes, I am exhibiting her, like, wedding ceremony venues and colours and, you already know, cutlery and wedding ceremony costume stuff,” he recalled. “And so it was type of this bizarre parallel the place, you already know, we’re performing out this wedding ceremony state of affairs whereas I am planning, and she or he’s giving me recommendation. So it was type of cool.”
This Is Me… Now: A Love Story premieres on Prime Video on Feb. 16, alongside the discharge of her ninth studio album, This Is Me… Now.
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