Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas spilled all the juicy details about their time on Dancing With the Stars following their shocking elimination. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 32, and the professional dancer, 39, appeared on the Wednesday, November 26, episode of Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast. The duo also performed the freestyle that they never got to show on the ABC dance competition, using Broadway theatrics to address online hate and bullying. "I think that day, we kind of had a gut feeling to be honest," Ballas said of getting eliminated during the semifinals on November 18, recalling how he had told Leavitt, "Let's just go out. Let's let's enjoy ourselves. Let's have fun. Go for it. Like, let your hair down. Enjoy this." Leavitt and Ballas were frontrunners throughout season 34 of Dancing With the Stars, so many fans were surprised when they were sent home. (Five couples advanced to the Tuesday, November 25, finale: Robert Irwin and Witney Carson, Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy, Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa, Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten, and Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach. Irwin, 21, and Carson, 32, ultimately won the mirrorball trophy.) Dancing With the Stars' Most Shocking Eliminations Over the Years Keep scrolling to read the biggest revelations from Leavitt and Ballas' podcast appearance: Mark Ballas Recalls Giving Whitney Leavitt a Pep Talk Ahead of Their Elimination "My strategy is always, 'Do your f***ing best,'" Ballas said. "Come out swinging. Do the best you can. Because the reality is, I'm gonna tell you right now: This is not the first time that someone who is an amazing, incredible, dynamic performer has been eliminated early. It happened to me in season 5 with Sabrina Bryan. But this is the first time I feel like it's happened with this new TikTok, Instagram hype." During their last time performing together on the show, "I felt our dances were solid," Leavitt said. "Like, that Viennese waltz that we did was one of my favorite dances that we've done. It just felt off. It didn't feel like the other Tuesdays that we had had." Ballas explained, "I'm a over-rehearser. I like to rehearse to the point where it's just so ingrained in your body. I hate leaving things to chance. Might be old-school, but that's how I was raised when I was dancing. It's just, you rehearse it, rehearse, rehearse it so you don't have to think. And in between our first dance and second one, we were [backstage] running it through." Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas Spark Controversy With 'DWTS' Giveaway He noticed at the time that Leavitt was getting "emotional." As a result, "I kind of had to go into football-coach mode, where I was like, 'You can do this!'" Ballas "was starting to get worried that she's going to go out there and black out." Leavitt had an ominous feeling, "like this was our last dance, which in turn, made it a little bit more emotional." Ballas and Leavitt Share Hateful Comments That Affected Them the Most Cooper, 31, reminded the pair that they had received "one of the highest scores that night," with a 58 out of 60 for both of their performances. She asked for their take on why they didn't get the viewer votes to remain on the show. "I don't know," Leavitt said. "I mean, if I was speculating, I'd say, 'Yeah, maybe 'Secret Lives.' Because it was such a huge divide. Like, you either really loved me for that, or you really hated me for that. So, maybe it swayed some people." Weighing in, Ballas said, "Sometimes this s***t happens ... with such a stacked cast and really great talent. Great talent, all-around." He then acknowledged the mean-spirited online discussion targeting them during their Dancing partnership. "I think with the intensity of the show and how big it's gotten - which I love so much - everybody's been getting backlash online," he said. "It wasn't just us. Yes, ours was very intense, but when something's this big, I'm sure as you know, there's always going to be naysayers. There's always going to be people hating on you. I think there was just like a window of weeks where it was just, like, goddamn." When Cooper pressed them to share examples of fan criticism that especially stung, Ballas responded, "It's wild. OK. This is really heavy. ... You can edit it out if you not want, but like, this is one that I just got like randomly. ... This is after one of our dances: 'Are you that cheap of a c*** to rot and do this? Damn, you're special. You're completely worthless. And I hope you f***ing burn in hell one day.' That's just one of them." Ballas added that the internet trolling is "relentless like that, over a dance show." Leavitt, for her part, said she's "definitely become a little bit more desensitized to it. Because I've experienced it for years. But I think, like, what was a little bit triggering was watching someone experience that for the first time for something, for what? Like, it just it made no sense to me. And then, I also at times felt like it was my fault because I