Nia Sioux Accuses Former 'Dance Moms' Instructor Abby Lee Miller Of Racism In Explosive Memoir

Former "Dance Moms" star Nia Sioux is blasting her former dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller, in the pages of her new book, "Bottom of the Pyramid," accusing her of racist and "ignorant" behavior.

The 24-year-old was an original cast member of the hit Lifetime reality series, and while she has spoken briefly about her time on camera, she is now ready to spill it all.

Nia Sioux's memoir shares horrifying stories from her time at the Abby Lee Dance Company and details how those experiences have shaped the woman she is today.

Sioux recounts a number of difficult events from her time on "Dance Moms" in her new memoir, including the time Miller allegedly attacked the young dancer over her hair, which was in braids during a portion of filming from 2011 to 2017.

"Abby told me that I needed to fix my hair because it looked awful. She said — on camera, no less —' It's like a log coming out of the side of her head,'" she wrote in the book, according to Page Six.

However, that's not the only problematic statement the outspoken TV personality allegedly directed at Sioux. Elsewhere in the book, Sioux claimed her former dance instructor asked her whether she wished she "had white-girl hair."

According to Sioux, she clapped back at Miller when she questioned her about her hair, saying she told Miller that she "didn't want to be white." Sioux revealed the scene never aired on television.

At another point during filming the popular reality show, Sioux wrote that Miller made controversial comments about Black people, specifically that they were "physically predisposed to having flat feet," which could explain why Miller always screamed at her over her "bad feet."

"She would say, 'Well, you know your people have flat feet,'" Sioux wrote, later calling the 60-year-old "ignorant."

One of the worst parts of her experience, however, was that Miller allegedly threatened to physically harm Sioux if she didn't correct her technical skills.

"Yet, despite the fact that she actually believed this ridiculous generalization was true, she'd threaten punishment for my perceived shortcoming. 'If you don't point that foot,' she'd warn, 'I'm gonna come out there and break it,'" she wrote.

During a separate interview with Page Six, Sioux opened up about why she chose to write her memoir seven years after leaving "Dance Moms." As she revealed, she wanted to reclaim her narrative and tell her story on her own terms.

"Something that I cover a lot in the book is just like how I was seen. I was seen as the weakling, the bad dancer," she said in early November 2025. "Some of the things that were said about me… they tried to make the narrative like the little black girl couldn't dance, and that was the narrative that they ran with."

She continued, seemingly slamming the production team for creating a narrative about her that didn't exist.

"They had seven seasons to turn that narrative around, and they never did. They failed to do so. And that's part of the reason why I had to write the book, because that's not the whole truth… I started in one place, but by Season 7, by the end, I was a completely different dancer, a completely different person. I wasn't weak. I was a very strong dancer," she said.

Last year, Sioux, along with a few other OG "Dance Moms" cast members, made headlines when news broke that they had decided to skip the reunion special that aired on Lifetime.

The special featured JoJo Siwa, Paige and Brooke Hyland, and Kendall Vertes.

According to an earlier report from The Blast, Sioux discussed her decision to sit out of the reunion, telling podcast host Kamie Crawford that she did it to protect herself and her well-being.

"I made it very clear from the beginning [that] I was not doing it," she said, later explaining that she believed the important parts of her "Dance Moms" journey would've been overlooked.

"That's not good enough for me," she said. "I don't wanna just go and sit there and not be able to speak my full truth. I don't want to water down my story; I don't want to edit or censor things out. Like, this is what happened. This is how I felt, and I know that it would be diminished."

And while she stayed away from the group and the cameras during the reunion, Sioux shared that there's no love lost between her and some of the original cast members.

In a TikTok video from 2024, the dancer-turned-author said she's still in a great place with many of them and that she's "really happy" for their successes. "Also, I never said that I wouldn't do a reunion show in the future or talk about my experiences in the future, but right now, at this moment, was not the right time for me to do that," she finished, leaving fans with a bit of hope.