WATCH: Bindi Irwin’s Tearful Tribute To Her Dad On “Dancing With The Stars”

For all the straight up weirdness that her family has surrounding it – and, let’s be real, there’s a bit – and for how oddly strange it always is to see a child so utterly media trained from such a young age, at her core Bindi Irwin will always be a young girl who tragically lost her father. That’s super tough. And it’s something that tends to slip the minds of people from time to time.

Bindi is currently a cast member on the 21st season of the US Dancing With The Stars, and in the fourth week of the show the seventeen year old decided to pay tribute to Steve through her performance, publicly opening up about the loss in a way neither she, nor her family, really has before.
Bindi danced to a mournful rendition of The Police‘s classic hit “Every Breath You Take,” and the performance netted her the first perfect score of ten for the season.

Ahh mannnnn. That bit at the end where she hugs dance partner Derek Hough and just empties out her heart. It’s way too damned hot to be tearing up like this.
Photo: Adam Taylor via Getty Images.

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