Nia Sioux Says Abby Lee Miller Could Have Gotten ‘Dance Moms’ Canceled

“Dance Moms” alum Nia Sioux is getting candid about her time on the present in her new memoir, “Backside of the Pyramid.”

All through the e-book, the 24-year-old particulars traumatic experiences, just like the time her dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller, allegedly used racist language towards her. Sioux additionally revealed one other heartbreaking incident with Miller that she claims may have ended the present.

Nia Sioux starred in “Dance Mothers” for seven seasons from 2011 to 2017.

Like lots of the different ladies on “Dance Mothers,” Sioux pursued a music profession throughout the later seasons, releasing songs like “Star In Your Personal Life” and “Slay.”

Nonetheless, Sioux claims in her e-book that her dance trainer, Miller, wasn’t glad about her pursuing music, alleging the 60-year-old felt slighted by Sioux signing a contract with out her.

Sioux wrote that Miller—on digicam—known as her mentor, former Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day, and allegedly bribed her with cash to finish her working relationship with the younger dancer.

“As soon as the decision related and I heard the voice on the opposite finish of the road, nonetheless, I froze,” she wrote, in accordance with PEOPLE. “It was Aubrey. Abby advised her that she’d heard we had been working collectively.”

“She went on to inform Aubrey that my mother wasn’t imagined to contact her behind Abby’s again, that she was my supervisor, and that she was harm by my mom utilizing considered one of her contacts to make an underhanded deal. She then provided Aubrey $10,000 to not work with me,” Sioux added.

Sioux admitted she was heartbroken by Miller’s alleged actions, writing that she ran out of the room and to her mom, Dr. Holly Frazier.

Based on Sioux, the model of this scene that aired on Lifetime was edited to “shield” Miller’s picture from the viewers and protect the present.

“The community made it seem to be the ladies weren’t within the room and the mothers had been, and so they additionally reduce out the half the place Abby bribed Aubrey,” she wrote. “Since this was so malicious and vindictive, they needed to shield their pursuits. This was the type of factor that might’ve gotten the present canceled — or at the least in actually scorching water.”

After this blowup with Miller, Sioux wrote in her memoir that she did not obtain the help from her co-stars that she had wanted or hoped for.

“That is when it sank in that I used to be alone on this Dance Mothers world. Nobody was coming to avoid wasting me — properly, nobody besides my mother. It was now us towards the world,” the e-book learn.

The alleged bribery try wasn’t the one disheartening encounter Sioux had with the outspoken tv persona.

Based on a earlier report from The Blast, Sioux additionally claimed in her e-book that she was the goal of racist conduct on set, accusing Miller of talking negatively about her hair and her physique.

“Abby advised me that I wanted to repair my hair as a result of it regarded terrible. She mentioned — on digicam, no much less —’ It is like a log popping out of the facet of her head,'” she wrote within the pages of her e-book earlier than claiming Miller requested her whether or not she wished she had “white-girl hair.”

One other part of the e-book particulars one other interplay with Miller, who Sioux claimed advised her she had flat ft as a result of she was Black. “She would say, ‘Nicely, you already know your folks have flat ft,'” the dancer wrote earlier than slamming her for being “ignorant.”