Dancing With the Stars Val Chmerkovskiy Apologizes to Partner Jenna Dewan on Show After Suspension

Val Chmerkovskiy owned up to his misstep.

After the Dancing With the Stars prowas dealt a one-week suspension from the ABC competition for his comments about judge Carrie Ann Inaba, he returned to the ballroom on the Oct. 27 episode and apologized to partner Jenna Dewan.

“We are back together,” Chmerkovskiy told her in rehearsal footage shown on the broadcast. “I am so sorry for all the chaos. You did not sign up for that, and I feel awful.”

The Rookie star then hugged him, saying, “I forgive you. I missed you.”

Still, Dewan—who shares daughter Everly, 13, with ex-husband Channing Tatum, and kids Callum, 6, and Rhiannon, 2, with fiancé Steve Kazee—didn’t miss a step as she partnered with Alan Bersten for Dedication Night Oct. 20 with a Viennese Waltz to The Righteous Brothers‘ “Unchained Melody,” which she dedicated to her mom Nancy Lee Bursch.

“I’ve been thinking so much on all the things my mom has taught me throughout my life,” the 45-year-old shared in an Oct. 18 Instagram post alongside photos of her mom through the years. “Not just in what she’s said, but in the way she’s lived and the example she’s always been for me.”