Cheryl Burke doesn’t mind being single and celibate.
On the Wednesday, Feb. 12, edition of iHeart Radio’s I Do, Part 2 podcast, the professional dancer, 40 opened up about why she decided to adopt the new lifestyle following her divorce from Matthew Lawrence in February 2022.
“I’m not dating and I’m choosing not to date,” Burke declared on the podcast. When asked if her last date was “over three hundred and sixty-five” days, she said, “Oh, for sure.”
“I still think guys are hot. That doesn’t mean though, that they deserve me,” she added.
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Cheryl Burke attends 2023 Variety’s Women Of Reality TV at Spago on November 29, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Dancing with the Stars alum is also not into one-night stands, describing herself as a “sober woman” into “respecting and loving myself.”
The former TV personality previously shared in an August 2024 Instagram Reel that it had been three years since she had started her celibacy journey.
“The thing is, you have sex with me, I fall in love fast. So like, this is not a good thing, right? So we’re working through this. We’re like, ‘Okay, well, maybe it doesn’t have to be so intense,’ ” Burke on the podcast. “I am such an intense woman … it is what it is, it’s who I am.”
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Burke said that while she used to have a different mindset about sex, she’s now realized “none of it is real.”
Cheryl Burke attends the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 22, 2023.
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“The only thing that was real with whatever happened physically (is) that you allowed for it to happen,” she said. “And I think a lot of that maybe back in the day when I would have casual maybe relationships or intimacy, it really just continued to chip away at my soul because at the end of the day, that says a lot about me.”
Burke also admitted that due to her sexual abuse as a child, she hasn’t been “vulnerable enough” to be “truly intimate,” something she has addressed in therapy.
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