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Lolo Jones feels 'embarrassed' after 'DWTS' elimination

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"Dancing with the Stars" - "Episode 1901"

On Tuesday, Lolo Jones became the first celebrity eliminated from Season 19 of Dancing With the Stars.

And it hurts, she says, in a Facebook post.

Her performance Monday put her just above designer Betsey Johnson, who came in last place on the leader board because of a prop mishap. Jones' problem, she says, was a technical glitch at the start that put her off-kilter for her cha cha.

She said immediately after the dance that it was "awful."

And she has been down on herself about it ever since. In a Facebook post, she writes of feeling "so broken."

"When you go so many times rejected in public you put walls up. When I was dancing last night and messed up I had flashbacks of the three Olympics and that people constantly tease me about. I thought oh no here it comes again. People are going to ridicule me. I'm so tired of feeling embarrassed."

She says she "felt like vomiting" after the dance and "fought back tears. I felt so broken. So unlovable. Embarassed."

"My brief time on ‪#DWTS was a lasting lesson. I really wanted to stay on the show and have the layers of hurt wash away by showing the public how hard I work. I wanted to come away a victor for once. I wanted to do so good performing in public that the haters would stop teasing me."

Jones goes on to say,

"My time was brief but the lesson is lasting. Thank you everyone who wrote me kind messages. You were helping me not fall into darkness.

Love ya guys (see I'm getting softer )

My prayer for tonight Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."