Witney Carson, a 19-year-old dancer from Provo, Utah, was moving to Los Angeles to pursue her ambition of becoming a professional dancer on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.
Our sources confirmed that the 28-year-old actress from her Los Angeles home said, “I finally got this call that was going to just skyrocket my career,” “It was my dream.”
In 2014, she learned she had melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, just a few weeks before she was due to leave for Los Angeles. Carson says she was afraid to tell anyone about her cancer diagnosis after undergoing two successful surgeries to remove it, for fear of losing her celebrity partner Cody Simpson for the entire first season.
“All of a sudden I get diagnosed with melanoma and of course, being myself, I’m like ‘It’s fine. I can still go on the show,'” says Carson, who has teamed up with EltaMD Skin Care for their Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes campaign to promote sun safety education and awareness on skin cancer prevention.
“I think I was embarrassed only in the fact that I was an athlete and I was supposed to be encompassing everything healthy and fit. I was supposed to be doing all the right things to be an athlete, and so it was embarrassing for me to be like, ‘Yes, I had, I was sick. I was literally sick.’ The producers didn’t know. My partner didn’t know. I wanted people to think I was perfectly healthy.”
“They took an inch diameter around the mole on my foot as well as all of my lymph nodes in my left hip,” Carson says. It was just spreading so quickly and they had to get rid of the lymph nodes and there was lots of healing time. I think I took six weeks and then I went straight to Dancing with the Stars. My foot was wrapped. I still had stitches in it.”
Even if it meant going against the doctor’s recommendations, Carson believed the show must go on.
“I walk in my first day of rehearsals; I’m just going full force,” Carson says. “The doctor has not cleared me for any active anything. I just decided to do it anyway because how could I not? It’s my dream. So I go, I do the whole routine. I’m like, ‘My foot feels so sweaty. I’m so sweaty. This is so weird,’ and I looked down and my white tennis shoe is just covered in blood, just covered in blood. Ripped my stitches open. I had to get my foot wrapped every week after I did the live show. So if you go back through the videos, you’ll see my left foot wrapped in gauze.”
Because both of Carson’s parents were diagnosed with and survived melanoma, she believes that using tanning beds in her teens may have contributed to her obtaining the cancer.
Carson says she hasn’t stepped foot in a tanning bed since she was diagnosed at the age of 19, when she was 19. “Until now, I have never stepped foot inside.
Because she uses sunscreen on both herself and her infant son Leo, the mirror ball champion has been cancer-free for the past decade.
Carson claims that Carson is “obsessed” with infants. “His constant refrain is, “Baby, baby!” He is smitten by their presence. We’d love to have one, but I have to focus on preparing for the season right now.”
For the time being, though, she’s focused on bringing home yet another mirror ball from her trip.
“I don’t think it would be wise to be pregnant during the season,” Carson says. “It’s going to be on Disney+, the old executive producer, Conrad, is coming back. I’m really excited about that. I just would really love to be a part of it this season. So that’s kind of our main focus right now.”
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