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Dance Moms<\/em><\/a> alum Abby Lee Miller<\/strong><\/a> claimed that the moms from the popular Lifetime series were responsible for \u201cdestroying\u201d her business during her appearance on the \u201cJust B With Bethenny Frankel\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the show did and the moms did is ruin my business,\u201d Abby, 54, revealed to host Bethenny Frankel<\/strong> in the Thursday, May 9, episode<\/a>. \u201cIt was a six-week docuseries. I thought, \u2018For six weeks, I can handle this in my studio.\u2019 [Lifetime] was using my studio for free.\u201d<\/p>\n Abby claimed that the moms \u201crefused to homeschool their kids\u201d which delayed filming for the series until after school got out for the day at around 4:00 p.m. This coincided with the time other families would be arriving for their dance lessons, but with filming happening in the studio, that couldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n Abby also revealed why she thinks she wasn\u2019t invited to Lifetime\u2019s \u200b\u200bDance Moms: The Reunion<\/em>, and it has to do with her former students.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the kids can\u2019t face me because they know they would never be where they are today if it wasn\u2019t for the show,\u201d Abby told the Real Housewives of New York<\/em> alum.<\/p>\n Abby continued, \u201cThere\u2019s two little girls named Brooke and Paige Hyland, who I was very close to, much closer emotionally and family-wise than any of the other kids. Their mother was in my original competition team when I was 14 years old. She stayed at my studio, then she left, got married, had kids, brought them to my studio at two years old and then stayed until the show started. My point is, if this was so toxic for all these kids, why did they come back at three and four and five and six in my studio?\u201d<\/p>\n Bethenny, 53, pushed back a bit at Abby\u2019s claims and said that the kids\u2019 return to the studio could have been a result of their mothers urging them to return.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were other studios in town,\u201d Abby replied. \u201cMine was the best.\u201d<\/p>\n The reality TV star also alleged Lifetime wanted to portray her and her dance studio in a certain light<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd what you don\u2019t read, what you don\u2019t read that Lifetime didn\u2019t want anyone to know. They wanted me to be this down and out, po-dunk, heavy set dance teacher, screaming at these little kids because that made good TV,\u201d Abby told Bethenny. \u201cNobody talks about the kids that I\u2019ve had in, drum roll please, 25 Broadway shows. Did you read that anywhere? 25 Broadway shows. I have had kids from Pittsburgh in, that I took, that I drove their asses back and forth to the auditions.\u201d<\/p>\n While Abby didn\u2019t appear in Dance Moms: The Reunion<\/em>, she revealed that her time as a reality TV star was far from over when she dropped a teaser for her upcoming show<\/a>, Abby Lee Dance Dance With Me<\/em>. However, a premiere date for the new series had not been revealed at the time of this article\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n