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Lifetime’s Dance Moms Season 5 Episode 11 saw Abby Lee Miller and her charges storm into Philadelphia for a competition that marked the last chance for Nia.

Did she make the most of it, or crumble under the pressure?

If you watch Dance Moms online, you know that Holly and Nia Frazier’s relationships with combustible coach Abby were already strained to a degree.

Make that a much greater degree after this installment.

Holly’s efforts to boost daughter Nia’s singing career with Aubrey O’Day drew the ire of Miller, who called her out on Dance Moms Season 5 Episode 11.

The shot-caller then threw down the gauntlet, giving her a solo this week, but warning the young dancer that it’s put up or shut up time. Win or go home.

Seriously. First place or you’re done. You got that?!

“If you don’t place with that solo, there won’t be any solos for a long time. Do you understand me?” Abby asked Nia, whose mom was upset with this.

“It’s been a rough road for Nia," Holly lamented.

"The idea that she may never have a solo again is a crazy amount of pressure," she went on, noting that the other solos awarded carried no such threat.

"I just wish for once Abby would support Nia."

Nia took it pretty well, but the tension rose when she asked Abby to please keep her outside interests separate from what goes on in the dance studio.

Bristling, Abby wasn’t about to oblige her. At all.

“Especially after all of the crap that went down with your mom in L.A.,” Abby told Nia. “I can’t keep rewarding you when she just causes me aggravation.”

Nia Frazier begged her to look beyond this fact. To see the forest for the trees, the big picture. To make a judgment based on rational thought, and on merit.

Again, Abby declined, asking her “If somebody was a murderer, I should just bring them in and teach them a dance and forget they murdered somebody?"

"I don’t like sneaky people. I don’t like liars. I just don’t like kids doing that. I don’t like parents teaching kids to do that,” Miller added, totally shutting her down.

Nia cried. But how did she do? Despite a very strong effort that was quite well received by the judges, Nia did not secure a win, and Abby stuck to her word.

No solo for you. Holly stormed out of the room, apparently upset that her daughter was being singled out with this punishment … and compared to a murderer.

Perhaps a little extreme, but that’s Abby for you.

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