I was thinking the same thing. When they lead the program with her announcing that she had a ruptured disk ... pandering. Also, I’ve had a ruptured disk twice and could barely walk, much less dance. The way she was bouncing around and twisting, there is NO WAY she has a ruptured disk.
Sorry, just a misunderstanding or miscommunication by the media.
When she said ruptured disk, she meant that the CD player kept ejecting her CD DISK, and so she couldn’t use the music she had prepped with, and that might cause her not to win.
For someone who has won each competition, she sure whines a lot.