The former Olympic athlete's struggles with terrible pain prompted her to seek support
Strictly Come Dancing has brought back the sequins and sparkle to Saturday nights. But the celebrity contestants on the BBC One super-smash have all had their own trials to get to the dancefloor.
READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Shayne Ward looks downbeat as he hits back after one-word live show criticism London-born Montell said: “I didn’t really moan about it, I didn’t really speak about it a lot. I thought it was something that maybe you just had to get on with and deal with.” The former British record holder for the 100 metres competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Shortly afterwards, she changed disciplines and took up bobsleigh in 2016, for which she represented Team GB at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
"At some point, I was going to have to race while I was on my period, so I had to find other ways to manage it.” “I was overheating because of the hormones – my body couldn’t control its temperature, and that in turn made me dehydrated. The pain was in waves, coming in like contractions.”
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