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Boston Marathon bombings survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis to be honored by 'Dancing With the Stars'

'DWTS' to profile inspiring dance teacher who lost foot in carnage, but vows to dance again.



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Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a professional ballroom dancer injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, uses a walker to return to her bed at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Wednesday.

Dance teacher Adrianne Haslet-Davis vowed she would return to star in the ballroom again, despite losing her left foot in the Boston Marathon bombings. Few, however, could have guessed it would be so soon.
The 32-year-old survivor has become an inspirational figure in the aftermath of the April 15 terror attacks, and touched by her story, producers for ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" have sent a camera crew to Boston for a profile to air on the show Tuesday.




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Haslet, who lost her left foot and part of her lower leg, vows that she will dance again and is being profiled on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ next week.


"DWTS" pro Derek Hough even told the Boston Herald that he would dance with her after she recuperated and underwent rehab.




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Adrianne Haslet is shown in a 2012 photo by the Arthur Murray Boston Studio.


"I absolutely want to dance again and I also want to run the marathon next year," Haslet told the Associated Press. "I will crawl across the finish line, literally crawl, if it means I finish it."



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The Stars Are Aligned: Haslet-Davis has been told that one of the pro dancers on ‘DWTS’ would be thrilled to dance with her, the Boston Herald reported.


There have been so many requests for media interviews after word got out of her grit and determination, Haslet-Davis has since had to retain a publicist to sift through them all.
The Arthur Murray Dance Studio employee had been watching the marathon near the finish line with her husband, Air Force Captain Adam Davis, when the bombs went off and knocked the couple down.



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Haslet-Davis and her husband, Air Force Capt. Adam Davis. Davis acted quickly when the couple were struck in the second blast, pulling his wife into a restaurant and using his belt as a tourniquet.



For a little while, it could have been two minutes or 20, I guess, everything seemed to go quiet," Haslet-Davis told the Herald from her hospital bed at Boston Medical Center. "I thought we were fine until I looked down and realized that my left foot was practically detached. That's when I started screaming my head off."
Haslet-Davis vaguely remembers her husband tying a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding, being carried to the triage center and having someone scribble a number on her forehead as emergency workers desperately sifted through the legion of badly injured victims.

"I just prayed that I had a number that was high enough to get help," she said. "I just kept screaming out, 'I'm a ballroom dancer! I'm a ballroom dancer! Just save my foot."

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