Derek Hough Shares Advice for Caregivers After Wife Hayley Erbert's Health Crisis: 'Stay in the Moment'

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PLUS: The Dancing with the Stars judge reflects on what it's like working with sister Julianne for Season 33

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00:00Now it's the sit down with Derek Hough.

00:01Hi, Derek.

00:03It's officially Dancing with the Stars season.

00:05The premiere was so promising.

00:07How cool is it that we have contestants

00:08fresh off the Olympics?

00:10It's amazing.

00:11It's so crazy to think, like, you know,

00:13to kind of think about what their life has been like,

00:16you know, recently.

00:16Like, what a whirlwind.

00:18We didn't know who Alona was or Stephen was.

00:21And then all of a sudden, now that these massive superstars

00:24who have been so successful at the Olympics

00:25and now they're on Dancing with the Stars

00:27and other things, it's pretty awesome.

00:29It's pretty cool.

00:30I want to ask you about some of my personal frontrunners.

00:33I love watching, but I don't know much about dance.

00:35So tell me why you think they each stand out

00:37to me on the dance floor.

00:39Yeah, let's check it out.

00:40Dwight Howard.

00:41My guy's got more charisma and energy

00:44than anything I've ever seen.

00:45All right, the party's here on the west side.

00:49Stephen Neterozic.

00:50I mean, adorable?

00:51Is that the wrong word?

00:52But you kind of, like, you watch and you're just like,

00:54oh, he's so adorable.

00:56Don't stop me now.

01:00Phaedra Parks.

01:01Oh, I love Phaedra.

01:02I mean, she's just, you just can't talk to her

01:05without being like this, you know?

01:07You just, oh, you know.

01:10I love her.

01:11Every time I see her too, just like in the hallway,

01:13I just like, I just, she's fantastic.

01:21And your sister is co-hosting again this season.

01:23Do you spend even more time together

01:25because your coworkers again?

01:26I'm picturing production lunches, carpooling.

01:29You know, it's funny, at least on like show days like that,

01:32it's weird.

01:32We have two different tracks.

01:34Like they're like her and Alfonso are doing like their thing

01:36and the judges were doing our thing.

01:38So we actually don't see each other a lot.

01:39Like on show days, weirdly, we find time to go see each other,

01:43to say hi and stuff, but it's awesome.

01:45It's so great to be able to work together.

01:47And we've had such parallel careers for so long.

01:49It's good because we're able to be there for each other

01:51and to sort of, you know, help each other out

01:53with certain things or give each other advice.

01:55So yeah, it's cool, man.

01:56It's great.

01:57You're an Emmy winner, best-selling author,

01:59husband, performer, judge.

02:01How do you possibly chill at the end of a busy day?

02:03Well, honestly, I just go home and I just, you know,

02:05snack and stream, you know, like everybody else.

02:07Like, you know, eat my snacks and, you know,

02:10watch my favorite show.

02:12I love popcorn, but sometimes popcorn doesn't love me.

02:14So it's sort of manage that heartburn that can happen.

02:19You know, I rely on Pepsi Max Icy Cool Mint.

02:22It's, uh, it works fast.

02:24It lasts all night, unlike antacids, which is great.

02:27So I kind of call that the way I would like.

02:30It's like chilling with Pepsi, you know, at night.

02:32It's how I do it.

02:34Here are people, Mag.

02:35We are so happy Hailey is in good health

02:37after that scare last year.

02:39Seeing her get back to your Symphony of Dance tour

02:41was so inspiring.

02:43Now that you've been through such a scary time,

02:45what are your words of wisdom for anyone out there healing

02:48or watching a loved one healing?

02:50It's really hard to do.

02:51And it's, and it sounds really, um, like a,

02:55like an Instagram quote or something like that,

02:57but really trying to stay in the moment,

03:00staying present.

03:01And that's so much easier said than done.

03:02And it sounds like such like a phrase.

03:04One of the things that I really learned from Hailey

03:06during that time that she helped me with, honestly,

03:10was she was just in the moment, you know,

03:12she wasn't focusing on like what, you know,

03:15what's going to happen, what's in the future, you know,

03:18um, it was just about what can I do right now

03:22that's going to, you know, help them or even help myself

03:26and just staying present.

03:27Because I think that the worry and the fear comes from

03:32worrying about what's, what's to come,

03:34what's going to happen, you know,

03:36um, that's where a lot of the fear happens.

03:38And so I think that staying sort of in the moment,

03:40which is not easy to do, but listening to things,

03:44you know, get some support, you know,

03:46listen to some podcasts,

03:47listen to things that are going to help you

03:48get you in the right state of mind

03:50to put yourself in the right state.

03:52Um, that's going to help that person heal,

03:54help you heal.

03:55Um, I think it's important.

03:58You two recently attended an Emmys after party.

04:01Talk about a special date night.

04:02Do you enjoy the glitz and glam,

04:04or are you counting down the seconds

04:05so you can come home and change into sweats?

04:07You know, I will say this,

04:09definitely in the earlier days, you know,

04:10you're out until you're out all night,

04:12so two in the morning, you know,

04:14we're definitely like go to those sort of events

04:18and we just eat all the food, you know,

04:19like at that particular party,

04:21there was like a Thai food.

04:23There was a big shop.

04:24There was those sushi rolls.

04:26There was pizza.

04:27There was, it was like Epcot around the world,

04:31but in food.

04:32And my beautiful wife, you know,

04:34she, she finds it.

04:36She's like, okay,

04:37we're going to go eat all the food now.

04:39Okay.

04:39We're going to put 10 seconds on the clock,

04:41promote any one of your upcoming projects.

04:43Ready?

04:44Go.

04:44Dance for the Holidays,

04:46November 1st to December 29th.

04:48I'm going out on the road.

04:50It's going to be amazing.

04:50Amazing dancing, amazing music,

04:52costumes, lighting, choreography.

04:55It's going to be the most festive,

04:57just incredible time.

04:58I got Michael Buble, you know,

05:00narrating the show.

05:01It's going to be fantastic.

05:03Derek, thank you so much for being here.

05:05I appreciate you so much.

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