According to recent DWTS contestant Margaret Cho, the season's most controversial "celebrity" was merely on the program to make good with her mother.

"Why did Bristol [Palin] do Dancing with the Stars? I heard from someone who really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really) that the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it," the comedienne wrote on her personal blog.

"Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she 'owed' it to her to do DWTS so that 'America would fall in love with her again' and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012 with America behind her all the way," Margaret claimed.

"Instead of being supposedly 'handicapped' by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an 'asset' – a celebrity beloved for her dancing. I am sure the show wasn’t in on this (but who knows anything really)."

Whatever Bristol's motives were, Cho insists she really liked "Bristol as a person." "She’s warm and incredibly supportive, and I think that she looks beautiful out on the dance floor," she added.