In One Ear, Out The Other! (with Chloe Smith)
Leave It On The Dance Floor
Abby Lee Miller
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Abby is joined by former Dance Moms competitor Chloe Smith, who appeared on seasons 5 through 7 representing Cathy’s Candy Apples as one of the ALDC’s fiercest rivals. Chloe shares the untold story of how her journey with the show actually began years earlier, revealing that she had been auditioning for Dance Moms since 2012 and even danced alongside the ALDC behind the scenes at a competition in Pittsburgh long before fans officially saw her on television. She opens up about finally getting the life-changing call that she would be joining the show, and the complicated emotions that came with realizing she’d be competing against Abby — someone she had admired, trained with behind the scenes, and idolized for years. From intense competition days to the pressure of reality TV drama, Chloe reflects on the experience that changed her life forever.
Chloe also revisits one of the most talked-about moments from her time on the show, when a personal insecurity unexpectedly became the center of attention during a heated competition episode. For the first time, she reveals the behind-the-scenes details viewers never knew and shares how that moment truly affected her both on and off camera. Despite the challenges, Chloe looks back on her experience with gratitude and discusses where dance has taken her since leaving the show — from training with the Arizona Ballet, to dancing for the Arizona Rattlers while in college, and now pursuing her next dream by auditioning for the NFL. Plus, Chloe reflects on her relationship with Abby today, the lessons she learned from the competitive dance world, and what fans would be most surprised to know about life behind the scenes of Dance Moms.
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| 0:00.0 | a former dance moms cast member please welcome chloe smith thank you so much i'm just so excited to |
| 0:08.8 | talk to you so i first got an introduced to dance moms i had gone to a open audition back in |
| 0:14.7 | 2012 i had called my mom and asked if i would be interested in being on your teen senior ensemble, |
| 0:22.7 | your teen senior ALDC team. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay. And we performed a dance called Screaming Silence. |
| 0:27.6 | In LA, you called my, yeah, huge. |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, huge. Again, another line wrapped around the corner, |
| 0:32.1 | a huge convention center in LA. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. You called my mom and said, |
| 0:35.6 | you better get your butt to this audition. We get a call from one of the producers. Yeah. You called my mom and said, you better get your butt to this audition. We get a call from |
| 0:38.6 | one of the producers. Congratulations. You've made it on to dance moms, is that you have to be on |
| 0:44.2 | candy apples. Take you to Ohio. You're on Kathy's team. Yep. Do you guys beat us? Do you? Yes. We win. |
| 0:51.4 | We, we, you know, go back to our dressing rooms. Of course, the producers have a cake for us ready with your face on it. |
| 0:58.7 | As you're walking out of the room, you had made a comment, if you remember. |
| 1:06.1 | So mean, but how did I say it? |
| 1:08.2 | You said, get those ears fixed. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi, I'm Chloe Smith, and this is Leave It on the |
| 1:12.6 | Dance Floor. Welcome back to Leave it on the dance floor. I'm your host, Abby Lee Miller, and I have a crazy special guest here today. I'm currently in Phoenix, Arizona, filming this podcast. And a former dance mom's cast member lives here in Arizona. |
| 1:46.4 | Now you're going to think Bryn, you're going to think Kalani, you're going to think, you know, whoever. |
| 1:51.0 | But this is going to surprise you because this young lady is from the Buffalo, New York area, cold, snow, ugly winters, bitter, freezing temperatures, |
| 2:04.4 | and she got herself out of there and moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Please welcome Chloe Smith. |
| 2:12.6 | Thank you so much for having me on. I'm so, so, so honored. And I'm just so excited to talk to you. |
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