Ashley Roberts

I came out of the womb dancing because my dad also was a drummer percussionist.

And so I grew up around music being played all the time.

And it was just all of a sudden I started wiggling.

Let's put her in some dance classes.

And I left it like, oh, it was my best friend.

It was my meditation.

It was my escape.

It was my expression, like you said.

And, you know, for my whole life, all I really wanted to do was get out there and perform.

And so when it became my job, I was like, well, this is epic.

But then it kind of got wrapped up in this bubble of a major pop group that was, you

I got a bit on the other side and I was like, well, who am I actually outside of this?

I felt just very lost, very disconnected to the one thing that actually made me feel like it was the essence of life to me.

I just didn't really recognize myself and it was a really, really tough time because I always leaned on that just to make me feel better and it seemed like that wasn't...

That wasn't present anymore.

So I went on a journey.

I went on an adventure.

Yeah.

Well, also, I had trained my whole life, so doing Pussycat Doll routines is fun, and it is a beautiful form of dance, but all the sort of technical stuff that I'd worked on for so long, it had gone away, and I sort of walked in, and I was like, okay, well, all I want to do is go in a dance studio.

I don't know why I feel weird saying this, because...