Maks Chmerkovskiy on His Relationship With Peta, Talking to Meryl Davis, and DWTS

Maks: To be honest with you, it doesn't feel like anything because I live it every day like I never left. My brother is there, my friends are there, people that are in my life are still on the show. There's a very tight-knit connection because of SWAY. A lot of people in our show are also on Dancing With the Stars like Artem, Henry, Sharna, Jenna, Emma, etc. I deal with it every day, literally. Val and I live together. Peta comes home. It's all the same talk. [Laughs] Sometimes it's like you left, but you never really did leave. Othertimes I look at it like, "It was a freakin' blessing, man. Who wouldn't want that job to do these things?" So I don't feel like time has passed. I love everybody on that show.

Glamour: Would you ever come back to DWTS?

Maks: Definitely not. [Laughs] You have to walk away when the time is right, and the time was right. Nothing was out of ordinary. I think the change of guard is necessary. Like a plant that in order to improve growth, you have to pull branches. It's the same thing. Every now and again, everything needs to be refreshed. Me, Cheryl, Karina, the few of us leaving, I think this might be one of the last times we see Derek [Ed. note: See what Derek told us about returning for next season here]. Tony's still around, but I don't know for how long. It's not set. It's awesome. We've moved on, and the show is still where it is. You have people like Peta and Val, who kind of became faces of the show, and let's see what happens. I hope the show stays for another 10 years, and we'll come celebrate it when we're a lot older.

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