After resigning from Dance Moms in March 2016, Maddie Ziegler found herself a new mentor. The dancer received her first big break after the show with Sia, who enlisted Maddie to dance in her 2014 music video for "Chandelier." The video launched a long and fruitful friendship between the two women, and Maddie would go on to star in a number of her videos including "Elastic Heart," "Rainbow," and "Big Girls Cry," as Billboard pointed out.
Similarly, Abby Lee knew when it was time to step back from the reality show. In May 2020, she announced she would be leaving Dance Moms after nine years on the show. She expressed why she made the decision to leave in a lengthy Instagram post, though it's since been deleted. As The Sun reported, in one part of her caption, she wrote, "Satan stuck a pen in my hand insisting that I sign a contract."
With their Dance Moms days far behind them, who knows what could happen between Abby Lee and Maddie in the years to come, but as of this writing, their relationship has certainly hit a standstill.
