Cheryl Burke Opens Up About Her Relationship Status and Why She Is Celibate

Cheryl Burke does not thoughts being single and celibate.

On the Wednesday, Feb. 12, version of iHeart Radio’s I Do, Part 2 podcast, the skilled dancer, 40 opened up about why she determined to undertake the brand new way of life following her divorce from Matthew Lawrence in February 2022.

“I’m not relationship and I’m selecting to not date,” Burke declared on the podcast. When requested if her final date was “over 300 and sixty-five” days, she mentioned, “Oh, for certain.”

“I nonetheless suppose guys are scorching. That doesn’t suggest although, that they deserve me,” she added.

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The Dancing with the Stars alum can also be not into one-night stands, describing herself as a “sober lady” into “respecting and loving myself.”

The former TV persona beforehand shared in an August 2024 Instagram Reel that it had been three years since she had began her celibacy journey.

“The factor is, you’ve intercourse with me, I fall in love quick. So like, this isn’t a superb factor, proper? So we’re working by means of this. We’re like, ‘Okay, effectively, possibly it does not need to be so intense,’ ” Burke on the podcast. “I’m such an intense lady … it’s what it’s, it is who I’m.”

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Burke mentioned that whereas she used to have a special mindset about intercourse, she’s now realized “none of it’s actual.”

“The solely factor that was actual with no matter occurred bodily [is] that you simply allowed for it to occur,” she mentioned. “And I feel a number of that possibly again within the day once I would have informal possibly relationships or intimacy, it actually simply continued to chip away at my soul as a result of on the finish of the day, that claims loads about me.”

Burke additionally admitted that on account of her sexual abuse as a baby, she hasn’t been “weak sufficient” to be “actually intimate,” one thing she has addressed in remedy.