United Kingdom, May 13 -- Sharna Burgess previously dated Sasha Farber - years before they appeared on Dancing with the Stars.

The 40-year-old dancer has revealed that she had a brief romance with Sasha during her younger years, and she admits that he was much nicer than many other men she's dated.

Sharna - who has Zane, three, with fiance Brian Austin Green - told the Penthouse With Peta podcast: "I talk about how I've dated so many a*******. He was not one of them."

Sharna said Sasha, 42, came into her life at exactly the right time, when they were both performing in the touring production of Burn The Floor.

She said: "He was always a great guy. And he came into my life at a time when I just really needed to remember how to laugh ag...