“I think my pupils turned black.”

But that wasn’t Cody Rigsby’s biggest worry - it was his partner.

“I think my pupils turned black,” Burke joked.

DANCING WITH THE STARS - “Semi-Finals” - The penultimate episode will feature this seasons six remaining couples battling it out in two rounds of dances for a spot in the finale, as they also face a double elimination live, MONDAY, NOV. 15 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on ABC

Cheryl Burke and Cody Rigsby on ‘Dancing with the Stars’.Christopher Willard via Getty

“I turned in to you.

I was like, Okay, okay, I got it!

And then you got you got us back to where we needed to be by holding a pose.”

DANCING WITH THE STARS - “Semi-Finals” - The penultimate episode will feature this seasons six remaining couples battling it out in two rounds of dances for a spot in the finale, as they also face a double elimination live, MONDAY, NOV. 15 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on ABC

Cody Rigsby and Cheryl Burke on season 30 of ‘Dancing With the Stars’.Christopher Willard via Getty

Like you do one dance and then you have no time let it go."

Burke was perhaps the biggest pressure of all weighing down on Rigsby.

She told Rigsby that she was “in a different time at that moment… You saw a whole other side of me that no one has ever seen.

I didn’t know I had that in me as well, because I was going through a separation.

There was a lot of things I had found out literally days before I met you.”

Burkefiled for divorcefrom then-husbandMatthew Lawrencejust three months after the season 30 finale.

After season 31, she left the show.

And you were like, ‘No, this might be one of my last seasons.

So you’re not f—ing quitting."