"I was terrified of dancing. It was one of those things where I just hated to dance. I was a big entertainer, but before 'Dancing With the Stars' and before I met [partner Chelsie Hightower], I really wasn't that good of a dancer at all," Romeo said today on "Good Morning America." "So 'Dancing With the Stars' definitely opened my eyes up and changed my life to have no limits. I'm fearless now."
The rapper, formerly known as Lil' Romeo, revealed he didn't dance at his own prom and even turned down movie offers because he was so afraid to dance.
"I definitely enjoyed this journey. People don't really understand how hard dancing really is," he said, adding that professional partner Hightower helped him come out of his shell.
"He was definitely not open to doing a lot of everything that I wanted him to throw in the beginning," Hightower said on "GMA." "The more he got into it the more he loosened up and kind of took it by storm and just really embraced the whole thing."
One move that Hightower proposed and Romeo rejected: shaking his hips like Beyonce.