If we hate one thing about alleged mental stalkers with cars full of guns, it’s how they screw up your Paso Doble.

Just ask Shawn Johnson. Last week her alleged stalker was arrested in the Dancing With The Stars studio with loaded guns, a roll of duct tape and wads of unsent love letters in his car, and now it’s threatening to overshadow her performances on the show.

So that’s why Shawn Johnson has decided to not discuss the incident in any way, shape or form, as she discussed during a really long interview about the stalker on Access Hollywood.

Appearing on Dancing With The Stars is an activity fraught with danger – if you don’t knacker your back like Steve-O then it’s almost guaranteed that Bruno Tonioli will accidentally take one of your eyes out by prancing round like an attention-seeking toddler when it’s his turn to speak – but nobody could have been prepared for what Shawn Johnson has been through on the show.

Last week Robert O’Ryan was arrested and hit with a restraining order after allegedly going on the sort of stalky rampage against Shawn Johnson that’d get dismissed from a soap opera script meeting for being too overblown – reports suggest that O’Ryan had told everyone that he was going to father Shawn Johnson’s children before filling his car up with loaded guns and duct tape, driving to the Dancing With The Stars studio and scaling a fence to be close to her.

Which is pretty freaky and nightmarish and all, but then again Shawn Johnson should probably know better than to be a incredibly flexible teenage gymnast whose work uniform is basically just about enough lycra to cover her nipples and fanny. That sort of profession is always going to attract the weirdos, Shawn, and nothing you can do will change that. Not even giving yourself a boy’s name. Nice effort with that, by the way. Maybe you’d have more success if you tried augmenting it with a full beard.

Anyway, Shawn Johnson was so spooked by this Dancing With The Stars stalker incident that she’s chosen to open up about it to Access Hollywood. Or open up about the fact that she’s not going to open up about it, at least. Which admittedly doesn’t make any sense, so let’s just get to the quote before we start to have some sort of confusion stroke:

“It’s hard not to take the outside stuff and have it affect you during practice. Of course there’s been a lot going on that you try not to think about — negative, negative things really get to me, ‘cause I’m always the one that’s like, ‘The glass is half full.’ I try to find the positive in everything, so if anybody is negative or down or upset and stuff, it really kind of affects me.”

This display of positive mental attitude is exactly what propelled Shawn Johnson to the top of her game, and it’s a pleasure to witness. That’s why we’re so excited about seeing her next routine on Dancing With The Stars – a graceful Viennese Waltz performed in a lead panic box surrounded by armed security guards and at least 1,500 convincing Shawn Johnson body doubles. It’s going to be spectacular.

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