Strictly Come Dancing’s La Voix has confessed that she kept her injury quiet as she feared it could lead to her exit from the BBC dance show.

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The star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK was a participant in the current series but had to withdraw ahead of the Blackpool episode last month due to a foot injury.

At the time, she expressed that she was “devastated” at having to depart the show prematurely.

During an appearance on ITV’s Loose Women on Wednesday (December 3), she provided an update, disclosing that she has “a fractured metatarsal”. She also admitted that despite being in pain, she “didn’t want to tell anyone” about it, reports Wales Online.

La Voix, who was partnered with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec on Strictly, revealed: “I’ve basically got a… I haven’t really told anyone what I’ve done. It’s all been very secretive… I have got a fractured metatarsal.”

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The star has a fractured metatarsal(Image: ITV screengrab)

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She went on to say: “I did two weeks on the show, not knowing I’d broken my foot. I didn’t want to tell anyone. I was in so much pain, but I knew that it might be the end of the line. So I thought, maybe it’s muscular, maybe I’d get over it.

“And it didn’t. And then, of course, we did the Couple’s Choice. I had to wear the flat shoes. We had a comment before from Shirley (Ballas) saying, ‘You’re flat-footed.’ I thought, ‘Well, yes, you do it with a broken foot, Shirley.’ But I couldn’t say anything. Do you know what I mean?”

When asked if she had been keeping it a secret, La Voix responded: “Well, I was.”

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La Voix appeared on Loose Women(Image: ITV screengrab)

La Voix speculated that she likely injured her foot during the Foxtrot week, which she described as “quite an easy week”.

“I think it’s just the repetitive stress, the stress fracture,” she further explained. “Apparently, Shirley says it’s very common in the dancing world, apparently, to get those injuries.”

“It was,” she confessed. “I bawled my eyes out in that rehearsal room when I realised I was not going to be able to carry on.