Abby Lee Miller and Cathy Nesbitt-Stein are done dancing around the truth about their friendship.

As in their long-documented Dance Moms feud was largely choreographed for TV. 

“We were turned into rivals,” Cathy revealed to E! News during an exclusive interview. “So, it is accurate to say that we weren’t really rivals.”

Indeed, Cathy admitted she felt “pressure to create drama, definitely” while filming the Lifetime reality show, which originally aired from 2011 to 2019.

Plus, as Abby Lee noted, “Cathy was in Ohio, I was in Pennsylvania. I went to certain competitions, she went to completely different competitions. It’s not like every weekend we saw each other. Rarely.”

But when their students did face off in local competitions, that supposed strife took center stage.  

As Cathy added, “In the show, we had to become rivals. It got to the point where we were angry at each other at times.”