Gossip Queen: Reality TV helps Samuel Johnson find his balance

Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson has credited the challenge of Dancing with the Stars for helping him find his way after a personal meltdown last year.

Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson has credited the challenge of Dancing with the Stars for helping him find his way after a personal meltdown last year.

Johnson, who is dancing for the memory of his sister Connie, who lost her long battle with cancer in 2017, and his Love Your Sister Charity, said the physical and mental challenge of the show had helped him find balance.

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“I have said no to reality TV my whole career and then I kind of bottomed out last year and lost the light and felt firmly that choosing to dance at such a time would do me good, even though I was pitifully ill-equipped,” he said.

Samuel Johnson and Jorja Freeman on ‘Dancing With The Stars’. Picture: Instagram

“I could call it exhaustion, I could say it was six years of industry since my sister got sick and then losing her and not having my way, I could paint all kinds of lovely pictures about it, but, basically I was not getting my balance right. I was working too hard and living too hard and when you do that you combust.”

Johnson and his dance partner Jorja Freeman have been a revelation on the Channel 10 show, bringing drama, emotion and skill to the dancefloor. “They call it getting out of your comfort zone, I call it running toward the fear,” he said.

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