Ilona Maher reveals unsettling moment at nail salon before being accosted by creepy man

Ilona Maher is being praised for being nan eventual 'girl's girl' aft revealing a creepy relationship pinch a man astatine a nail salon.

The Olympian, who is currently competing in play 33 on Dancing With The Stars (DWTS), shared nan communicative connected societal media, retelling nan uncomfortable relationship that took spot erstwhile she sewage a pedicure.

The 28-year-old rugby prima arrived astatine nan salon astir an hr and a half earlier it closed to get a pedicure, and was 1 of nan past customers successful location pinch nan 2 women still working.

'As I'm getting it done this feline walks successful and asks for a pedicure arsenic well, truthful they beryllium him down and we're some getting worked on,' she said successful nan clip, which was shared connected her Instagram and TikTok accounts.

'Mine gets done, but I sewage regular polish, I didn't get gel this time, truthful it intends it has to return clip to dry.'

Maher said nan man was still getting a pedicure while she was waiting for her polish to dry, but was told many times by nan women moving astatine nan salon to support waiting, contempt being fresh to go.

'So I hold and past I'm like, "Is it fresh to go?"' she recalled.

'[They reply] "no, conscionable support waiting, conscionable support waiting,"' she continued, adding they put her flip flops connected but insisted she enactment for a spot longer.

'I hold location for nary joke, astir apt an other half hour, 25 minutes, from erstwhile it was each done.'

The Olympian yet closed her retired erstwhile nan man's pedicure was complete and he'd left. 

When she was astir to leave, they told her why it took truthful long. 

'And they said, "Sorry we kept you for truthful long, we conscionable wanted you to beryllium present pinch america while he was there,"' Maher said.

'I wholly understood why they did that. It's a crazy world retired there.'

Maher past shared her ain terrifying relationship arsenic she walked retired of nan salon. 

'This feline looks maine successful nan oculus and says "can I spell location pinch you?"' she recounted successful disbelief. 

'And I'm for illustration "no." He says "why not?" and I conscionable support walking.'

After declaring it's 'insane retired there,' nan world-class jock shared a saccharine message about looking our for different women.

'I want you to cognize you tin support maine for arsenic agelong arsenic you want. You tin support maine for an hour,' she assured viewers. 

'I'll cancel my plans if you want maine location for information aliases if you want personification there. It's vulnerable retired there.'

The rugby sevens subordinate past quipped: 'Since I did my vigilante worldly coming I bought myself mozzarella sticks and I'm having a solid of wine.'

Fans flooded nan comments pinch praise for nan athlete.

'THIS! Is nan meaning of a girl's girl,' a instrumentality gushed.

'I'm truthful gladsome you were capable to beryllium location for nan ladies working. Ladies person to look retired for each other,' personification other wrote.

'This is specified an important instruction successful not getting irate successful a shop. You conscionable don’t cognize what is going on,' different personification pointed out.

'I americium truthful gladsome they felt safe pinch you pinch them, and grateful you were retired astatine that spot astatine that time,' a 4th said.

On DWTS recently, Maher and her pro-partner, Alan Bersten, performed a jazz regular to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Surface Pressure from nan 2021 Disney movie Encanto.

Maher - who has antecedently said that she wanted to 'show beautiful overmuch everything' - performed successful a costume inspired by nan powerful Encanto character, Luisa.

She blew nan crowd distant aft ending nan creation pinch an epic rendition of Luisa's donkey assistance from nan animated movie and earned their first 9 of nan season.