Which was her biggest problem.
But it is those final four days that she didnotmake that stick in the 41-year-old factory workers craw.
Im little foggy right now.
Elaine Stott in ‘Survivor: Island of the Idols’.CBS
Im not gonna lie.
I saw your photo on social media.
I was like, lets go out with a bang.
But Im regretting it a little this morning, I know that.
Okay, first question: What does extrapolate mean?
[Laughs] When I first heard it, I was like, Whats a scatulea?!
You were really beating yourself up after you lost that last challenge.
And then I totally messed up.
That puzzle was mine, you know!
Im not going to lie.
When you lost that challenge, did you know you were done?Yeah, I did.
I knew it in my heart.
I knew it was going down, man.
I tried everything I could to get em to keep me.
I just thought maybe throwing crazy Noura out there would help me out.
And it did in a sense a little bit, but in the end it didnt.
I kind of knew that was smy wan song in the end, I knew it was finished.
I knew it was over.
And to get so close.
Is there anyone you think you couldnothave beaten had you made it to the end?No.
I dont care who it is.
Just yo, dear baby Jesus, get me there.
You know what Im saying?
I just knew it in my heart if I can make it, you know, but I didnt.
So it is what it is.
Who was your biggest competition at the end, do you think?
So he had so many good relationships with everybody in it.
And at that time a lot of the beginning of the jury was all Vokai people.
So I was like, man, this is going to not be good, you know?
But you know, who knows.
I just thought: What the hell is on this menu?
Like,allthis stuff.
I hadnt even heard of half of that stuff.
And I was like, Well, you putwhaton what?
So I got nervous cause I knew Aaron was hot.
I knew Missy was hot and actually, Ponderosa was a lot hotter than what you guys seen.
So I was ready for whatevers about to go down.
I wasnt so naive that I thought, Oh, everybodys gonna love me.
Was the heat coming from where you expected?
You could tell by the looks at Tribal.
He was giving me looks like he could murder me.
So with Aaron, I just thought it was that.
But with Missy, I knew it was all gameplay stuff that she was going to be pissed.
You cant fix it after the fact.
You mentioned at Tribal Council how you lost your mother a few months before heading out to play.
I went and seen her, they said she was getting better.
So just to get to that point, I was like, Man, this is amazing!
And four days later her potassium drops out and she passed away.
So you go from one high to the lowest of lows.
They were like, You know, we want to double-check youre okay and able to go.
That was something that everybody was worried about, and honestly, I was dying to go.
Its hard to do that when you do the hustle and bustle of life.
So I wanted to go.
And when I got out there, everything was magnified.
Your emotions are all over the place.
Youre nervous, youre scared.
And so there were some long nights, because you just got hours and hours to think.
And I needed to work through those emotions.
I always say that God never gives you what you want.
He gives you what you need.
And Id done that, I think.
So it has actually helped me.
It was very, very therapeutic.
Im blessed for being able to do that.
But dont get me wrong: that was rough.
That was some emotional times.
They didnt show it, but I cried a lot just from everything.
Has somebody got hurt or something?
So I think the next time we went to Tribal was when he told us.
Thats how I think thats how it went down.
So it makes it hard.
But, at the same time, its a good platform to educate.
Its always good to get serious s out there and for people to be able to talk about everything.
So its kind of bittersweet.
What about after the merge?
There was a lot of serious stuff that happened post-merge.
But you know, I was always cutting up the tribe.
if you watch my Ponderosa, I literally chased Karishma with a ead snake.
It was the funniest thing ever.
She didnt appreciate it, but it was just funny.
We goofed around and we had some laughs.
And me and Lauren, I would crack jokes.
Just a lot of that, cause thats the part that I like.
I like the funny stuff and the goofing around and cutting up.
Thats like 44 pounds in two months.
Thats crazy!I told you, bro!
I was like a busted can of biscuits, for real!
You know what I mean?
And you get some crazy people in this world thats gonna send you hate no matter what.
Im not so like self-conscious that Im, that Im like, Oh, dont c’mon dont.
It is what it is.
I was chunky, you know what Im saying?
[Laughs] So I went out there, dude.
It was a great weight loss program for me!
You know, like, that was fantastic!
That was absolutely 1000 percent the right move for me.
The mistake I made was Karishma.
So that right there was the biggest mistake.
You were a huge fan favorite.
Maybe I would be more strategic.
I was strategic, yall just didnt see it.
She would have to be okay with me rolling again.
Cause it was really rough on her.
And she went through it a lot even though she wasnt with me out there.
She suffered just as much as I did.
So I would have to discuss it with the old lady first.
[Pause] She hates when I call that.
[Laughs]
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