The rumor around town Los Angeles Thursday September 8, 2011 was that Dancing with the Stars season 13 had claimed its first victim, Ricki Lake. The exact rumor? That Lake was taken to the hospital after a bad fall.
It turns out, that medics were in fact called to the DWTS rehearsal studios, but, Lake had only suffered a minor injury, if you can call a small scrape and bruise an injury that is.
Lake took to her Twitter to send a picture of her injured leg with the caption, “Look, my first injury… Don’t ask how it happened!”
“Not sure how my bruise turned into a medic showing up? I’m fine!! :)” she added a few hours later. She then gave a shout out to one of last year’s finalists, Kirstie Alley: “@kirstiealley I’ve got my work cut out for me. Channeling ya’ mama. xo”
So, how’d the injury happen? It’s not how partner Derek Hough joked, “I kicked her!” Lake explained to photographers herself, “I injured myself yesterday by hitting my heel into my shin … I’m fine.”
