Monday's Halloween-themed Dancing With the Stars had its fair share of happy tears when Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, took the stage.

In the pre-taped package, DWTS fans saw something rarely witnessed in the show's history: Chmerkovskiy getting choked up with emotion.

After getting a perfect score in the fourth week, Team Valaur has been struggling for the past few weeks, getting good-but-not-great scores, and the 30-year-old dancer lays a lot of the blame on himself.

"My whole life is focused around making sure that she shines every Monday," Chmerkovskiy said, getting teary-eyed in a solo interview. "Is my creativity good enough? Is my choreography good enough? Because her dancing is definitely good enough."

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For their dance this week, Hernandez and Chmerkovskiy performed a Viennese waltz to a rendition of "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which...