Cheryl Burke is "concerned" her DWTS partner Cristian de la Fuente — who was hospitalized after suffering a severe muscle cramp during Monday's performance show — will be voted off.

"He doesn’t deserve to be — he has been working hard," she told Usmagazine.com.

This week, the six remaining coples were required to perform two numbers — one latin and one ballroom. When de la Fuente was injured, he was half-way through performing his second dance, the samba. The judges said they could only judge until the moment he was injured. Judges gave the couple straight 7’s.

"I mean, what can you do?" Burke said of the idea of the Chilean soap star being sent home. "If they want to give us a 3, it doesn’t matter — it's up to the voters.

"If he can't come back," Burke added, "then I will not continue. There is nothing I can do — he is my second half."

Burke said everything was going "great" Monday night as they performed their routine "until I fell back onto his arms, and I heard it crack or snap. I thought it was my dress.

"He is in a lot of pain," she added. "I think its more than a muscle cramp because he is not the type who would be giving up like that so easily."

Dancer Derek Hough — who was hospitalized for a neck injury — told Us de la Fuente "would tease me a lot ... he would always say, 'Oh, Derek sneezed — call an ambulance!'

"Now look what happened to him," Hough added. "I hope it’s a minor injury. I felt really bad for him. I thought the judges were pretty hard on him. Let’s just hope for a speedy recovery."
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