'Dancing with the Stars' contestant and convicted felon Anna 'Delvey' rips show as 'predatory': They 'used me'

Former "Dancing with the Star" contestant and convicted felon Anna "Delvey" Sorokin is speaking retired pursuing her week-two elimination, claiming the amusement was "predatory" and formed her solely to garner views.

The 33-year-old, calved nether the Soviet authorities successful Russia, says she wasn't fixed a just shot.

"I consciousness that the amusement truthful evidently utilized maine to thrust up the ratings, that they ne'er had immoderate plans to springiness maine immoderate accidental to turn and lone cared astir exploiting maine for attention," Sorokin told NBC News via email. "It was predatory of them to effort [to] marque maine consciousness inadequate and anserine each portion I did get progressively better, yet they chose to disregard that." 

"It felt similar I was ne'er truly fixed a just accidental by the viewers oregon immoderate of the judges fixed their nonsensical scoring," shared Sorokin, who scored an 18 and 17 (out of 30 full points) for the 2 dances she performed each week. "It’s expected to beryllium a creation contention and not a popularity contest."

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Anna "Delvey" Sorokin was paired with nonrecreational Ezra Sosa for the 32nd play of "Dancing with the Stars." (Disney/Eric McCandless/Getty Images)

"I’m trying to commencement a caller section moving past mistakes I made and regret erstwhile I was overmuch younger," Sorokin added. "Not definite erstwhile radical volition yet spend maine that 2nd accidental and halt persecuting maine truthful I person the accidental to determination connected with my life."

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Anna Sorokin believes that she was formed to boost ratings. (Disney/Eric McCandless/Getty Images)

"It’s expected to beryllium a creation contention and not a popularity contest."

After posing arsenic an affluent heiress (Anna Delvey) for years, defrauding institutions and individuals, Sorokin was recovered blameworthy of expansive larceny, attempted expansive larceny and theft of services successful 2019. She was sentenced to 4 to 12 years successful prison.

She served 2 years down bars earlier being released connected parole, lone to beryllium picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) owed to an expired visa. Sorokin was yet released from jailhouse successful 2022, and placed nether strict location arrest, without entree to societal media. Before joining the "Dancing with the Stars" cast, ICE had to assistance Sorokin permission.

Anna Delvey is photographed successful Manhattan Supreme Court successful May 2019. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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Social media users initially had a tract time aft ABC announced Sorokin had joined the cast, galore expressing outrage. Backlash and hysteria were lone amplified aft promo shots of Sorokin and her creation partner, Ezra Sosa, were released, with Sorokin's court-issued ankle show visibly connected display. 

Anna "Delvey" Sorokin's ankle show elicited monolithic speech connected societal media. (Disney/Andrew Eccles)

When speaking to Fox News Digital during the premiere episode, Sorokin joked that accumulation "took the measurements" of her ankle show to guarantee it matched perfectly with her elaborate costume.

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In a podcast occurrence released this weekend, Sorokin reiterated her frustrations portion speaking with Tori Spelling. The "Beverly Hills, 90210" prima was besides a contestant connected the contention amusement and was eliminated the aforesaid week arsenic Sorokin.

"It felt similar a discarded of clip for maine to conscionable bash each of this. For them to conscionable discard maine truthful easily," Sorokin told Spelling connected her "misSPELLING" podcast. "It seems similar it's been mostly [a] antagonistic experience, astatine slightest for me, past it was a affirmative one."

Anna Sorokin, photographed during the elimination, went viral for her lackluster and unapologetic reply astir taking distant "nothing" from the "Dancing with the Stars" experience. (Disney/Eric McCandless/Getty Images)

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After being eliminated past Tuesday, Sorokin went viral for her effect to what she'd instrumentality distant from the show. "Nothing," she told nonrecreational dancer turned co-host, Julianne Hough.

"That was the truth," Sorokin told Spelling of her honest, unapologetic absorption connected elimination night. "[The show] told maine what I'm expected to do. I tried to bash it, and past I inactive was rejected. And, I'm taking distant nothing," she said. "Your proposal was worthless. The proposal that you gave maine did not wage disconnected for me, adjacent though I tried to travel it.

Sorokin and ABC did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.