Anna Delvey Skewers 'Predatory' 'Dancing With The Stars' After First-Round Elimination

LOADINGERROR LOADINGAnna Delvey isn’t pleased with how her experience on “Dancing With the Stars” panned out.After being booted from the ABC dancing competition in the first round of eliminations last week, the convicted faux heiress says she feels like she was taken advantage of.“I feel that the show so obviously used me to drive up the ratings,” Delvey told NBC News.“That they never had any plans to give me any chance to grow and only cared about exploiting me for attention.”Advertisement “It was predatory of them to try [to] make me feel inadequate and stupid all while I did get progressively better, yet they chose to disregard that,” added Delvey, who found notoriety after posing as a European heiress to scam hundreds of thousands of dollars from members of New York’s well-heeled art and fashion scenes and from a slew of financial institutions.Delvey was brutally honest about her feelings from the moment she was voted off “Dancing With the Stars” last Tuesday.Anna Delvey and professional dancer Ezra Sosa take the floor during last week's "Dancing With the Stars." The duo was voted out of the competition shortly after.Eric McCandless via Getty ImagesAsked what she learned from her experience after the live elimination, the Russian émigré replied with a curt “Nothing.”Advertisement Days after her departure, Delvey discussed her time on the show on Tori Spelling’s “misSpelling” podcast, where she told fellow Season 33 eliminatee that her blunt exit line was “the truth.”“You guys told me what I’m supposed to do,” she said of the “DWTS” production team.

“I tried to do it, and then I still was rejected.And I’m taking away nothing.

This is what I’m taking away from it, because your advice was worthless.”“I felt like, well, they were building me up.It’s, like, ‘Oh, well, only if you smile more, only if you do, like, x y z, it’s going to be so much better for you,’” Delvey said.

“And it ...