Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller has revealed she is not extending her support to her cancer-stricken former castmate Kelly Hyland.

Kelly’s daughters Paige and Brooke were Abby’s dance students on the show, which became a sensation largely thanks to Abby’s theatrical harshness as a teacher.

Abby and Kelly feuded bitterly to the point they once brawled on camera, for which Kelly was arrested on charges that were later dropped.

In 2014, Kelly sued Abby for $5 million claiming the dance teacher tried to bite her during the fight, and Paige, then 13, also sued Abby for ᴀssault. Kelly and Abby’s legal battle ended in a settlement, while Paige’s complaint was ultimately dismissed.

When Abby was sentenced to prison for bankruptcy fraud in 2017, Kelly and some of the other dance mothers were sitting in the back of the courtroom, exultant.

Now, Abby has said she has no intention of reaching out to the Hylands amid Kelly’s cancer battle, pointing out that Kelly allegedly never contacted Abby when the latter was suffering from Burkitt lymphoma in 2018, via TMZ. 

Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller, pictured last week, has revealed she is not extending her support to her cancer-stricken former castmate Kelly Hyland

Kelly was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, and this week posted an emotional video of her ringing the hospital bell after finishing her second round of treatments.

Holding a balloon that said: ‘Peace out cancer,’ Kelly embraced her children Paige, Brooke and Josh, as well as the staff at the hospital.

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However Abby has remarked that she was unable to relate to Kelly’s video, after she herself was on her deathbed from Burkitt lymphoma.

Abby accused the Hylands of never contacting her while she was suffering through her own bout of cancer, which she defeated in 2019.

She clarified though that she still harbors well wishes for Kelly in her struggle with the illness, adding that Kelly has no need of any support from her, as she gets plenty from her children, ex-husband and father. 

Abby’s cancer diagnosis came on the heels of her early release from prison, where she lost over 100lbs while serving eight months of a year-and-a-day sentence for bankruptcy fraud and smuggling $120,000 Australian into the United States. 

The reality star was at a halfway house after her departure from jail when her health steeply declined and she headed to the hospital.

She underwent emergency spinal surgery and also endured chemotherapy, but she retained her resolve to go back to work at her Abby Lee Dance Company, where she wore a wig after going bald from her cancer treatments.

Kelly’s daughters Paige and Brooke were Abby’s dance students on the show, which became a sensation largely thanks to Abby’s harshness; Kelly and Paige pictured on the series

Abby and Kelly feuded bitterly to the point they once brawled on camera, for which Kelly was arrested on charges that were later dropped 

Apart from the lawsuits, Abby and Kelly are not known to have interacted since the brawl that prompted the Hylands’ departure from Dance Moms in 2014; Abby pictured on the show

Abby has pointed out that out that Kelly allegedly never contacted her when she was suffering from Burkitt lymphoma in 2018, via TMZ; Abby pictured during her cancer battle

Kelly was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, and this week posted an emotional video of her ringing the hospital bell after finishing her second round of treatments

Abby has argued that Kelly has no need of any support from her, as she gets plenty from her children, ex-husband and father 

‘I need to get back to teaching, and I need to get back to screaming at children,’ she said at the time. ‘I need to get back to my roots.’

Apart from the lawsuits, Abby and Kelly are not known to have interacted since the brawl that prompted the Hylands’ departure from Dance Moms in 2014.

However a group of ex-Dance Moms including Kelly was seated in the back of the courtroom gleefully watching as Abby received her prison sentence in 2017.

Abby confessed she felt hurt by the women’s appearance in court, saying: ‘They were all laughing at me,’ in an interview with In Touch.

After the sentence was handed down, Kelly and the other mothers toasted the result with champagne, in a pH๏τo she posted with the caption: ‘Who is happiest ???’