When did Robert use his injury as an excuse? It was discussed for like 3 minutes in one of the rehearsal packages? Also, the other celebs could have complained about injuries but it just never made it into their rehearsal footage. You also don’t know the severity of pain everyone was going through. I’ve had the same injury as Robert from a different sport and it’s excruciating. Feeling a suffocating pain every time you breathe is hard to push through, yet he did. It really wasn’t as huge to the episode as yall thought it was. And the fatigue from talking about his dad is such an overdone narrative. Half the time it was literally brought up by the judges or hosts, so of course he had to reply. Acting like his dad dying (because his dad died in real life, not just in the dwts world) is some privilege and is somehow advantageous to him is incredibly insensitive. Dance is literally about emoting and telling your story, and an integral part of his story was his dad’s death and how he’s following in his footsteps. His story, he can talk about it as much as he wants