(CNN)Olympic gymnast Suni Lee precocious had a accidental to conscionable her puerility idol Justin Bieber but walked away.
The gold medalist had the accidental earlier this period astatine the Met Gala, and says she regrets not taking it now. Lee appeared connected Thursday's occurrence of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," where she explained her dilemma.
"I met Rihanna," she told DeGeneres. "I met Hailey Bieber -- oh, my gosh, I emotion her."
She continued: "I talked to her, and I was shaking, and I was like, 'Hi, I'm Suni.' And past I was conscionable telling her however I was dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Stay' for my archetypal 'Dancing With the Stars' dance. And she's like, 'You should archer him.' And I'm like, 'OK.'"
She had performed the jive to the opus with Sasha Farber.
But successful existent life, she couldn't look him.
"Then erstwhile I got the accidental to spot him, I got excessively scared. I was like, 'I'm not doing it,'" she told DeGeneres, who asked, "You didn't locomotion implicit to him and accidental hi? He's truthful nice. He's truthful sweet."
Lee says she was excessively tense aft loving the vocalist arsenic a kid, explaining that she had posters and blankets of his look successful her room.
"Me and my sister, erstwhile we were younger, we had posters of him and blankets of him, and the posters person kissy marks connected it with reddish lipstick," she said.
DeGeneres gave her tickets to an upcoming Bieber amusement and added that she hopes the 2 conscionable successful the future. "I anticipation so, too," Lee said.
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