Maddie Ziegler's made a solid career for herself over the years, but you first met her on Dance Moms, which she appeared on for six seasons starting in 2011.
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Obviously, reality TV isn't always as "real" as it's made out to be, so it's possible you watched Maddie on the show and have some potentially incorrect assumptions about who she is and how she behaves.
In a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, Maddie opened up about her experience on Dance Moms, as well as how her behavior was seemingly dictated by the show's producers.
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Maddie explained that, although she might have appeared to act entitled on the show, ultimately, the producers encouraged her to behave in a certain way.
"People thought I was a brat because in all my interviews I would say, 'I'm the best. I know I'm going to win,'" she told the publication.
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"But that's because the producer was telling me to say that," she admitted.
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Maddie continued to explain that how she acted on the show was not how she was in real life — and that she felt like the show engineered a situation where she would be misrepresented on TV.
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"I don't think I'm better than everyone else," she said. "I was just doing whatever they told me to do because I thought that's what you did."
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