Former “Bachelorette” Charity Lawson earns first 10 on season 32 of “DWTS” in emotional performance

It's a perfect ten!

On Tuesday night's "Most Memorable Year" episode of Dancing With the Stars, former Bachelorette Charity Lawson earned the first 10 of the season from the judges, nabbing the perfect score from judge Carrie Ann Inaba.

Lawson and her partner Artem Chigvintsev danced a Contemporary number to "Lose You to Love Me" by Selena Gomez.

ABC Artem Chigvintsev and Charity Lawson on 'Dancing With the Stars'

In the rehearsal video package, Lawson explained how she had faced infidelity in previous relationships before becoming engaged to her fiancé Dotun Olubeko on the finale of her season of The Bachelorette. Chigvintsev encouraged Lawson to put the hurt and betrayal of those experiences into her dance, and it showed, ending with her in tears from the emotion the dance generated within her.

The moving performance won over Inaba in particular. "What you just did is what people will remember about this season," she told Lawson.

Still struggling to recover herself, Lawson explained to cohost Julianne Hough that she was only able to execute this performance because of Chigvintsev. "Artem really pushed me this week," she said, "and I left it all out there on the dance floor."

ABC Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev on 'DWTS'

Lawson and Chigvintsev have consistently topped the leaderboard every week, but this week marked their biggest triumph yet with a combined score of 28 from the judges (though they did score a higher total with the added input of guest judge Michael Strahan previously). Later Tuesday night, Xochitl Gomez and partner Val Chmerkovskiy also landed a 10, tying with Lawson and Chigvintsev with 28 total points.

The duo came into the season with high expectations from viewers, given that Chigvintsev previously won season 29 with Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe. "There is a little bit of pressure, but it's just the expectations other people place on you," Lawson tells EW. "I only want to do my best. If I know that I give that every single week, wherever that takes me, I'm going to leave this competition the happiest. The pressure is really only coming from myself, nobody else."

ABC Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev performing on 'DWTS'

Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+ and streams the following day on Hulu.

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