Warning: This article contains spoilers about Wednesday’s season finale ofThe Challenge: Total Madness.
The first female to earn a red skull onThe Challenge: Total Madnessended up taking the whole game.
But you never think it will.
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I was shocked for ages.
I’m still feeling shocked now, really."
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I remember thinking, “Oh my God, it’s over!
It was quite emotional, really.
Not only did you win but you also beat Bananas.
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That must have felt incredible.
It’s amazing to think that out of everybody there I finished first.
It’s pretty cool that I was able to do that.
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I mean, he was right on my tail, he was like two minutes behind me.
Everything fell into place and I managed to cross the finish line first somehow.
I remember passing him at the final checkpoint.
And I was like waiting for him, and I was like, wait, why am I waiting?
So I just started carrying on hiking.
[Laughs] And that was the last bit.
Wait, why were you waiting?!
I don’t know why I waited.
I think it’s just because we’d hiked the last section together.
He was like just in front of me.
So I think I was waiting for him to egg me on.
And he was like, “Go!”
And I was like, “Oh yeah, go!
[Laughs] I should probably go.”
Its a good thing you didnt wait because it was so great to see a female finish first.
It’s definitely difficult winning as girls because we are the physically weaker sex.
Females sat, waited for them to bring back food, and we just birthed children.
I was like, if it’s a situation like that, I’d hate playing.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, isn’t it?
It takes the pressure off a little bit because Johnny and I are friends and it’s the final.
We’re hiking and I was ahead because I had a time advantage.
I just started going right and Johnny called me back.
So I’ve got him to thank him for that.
But maybe I wouldn’t have won out of everybody if it was each man for themselves.
He probably wouldn’t have told me I was going the wrong way.
I wonder how long it would have taken me to notice before I realized no one was behind me.
[Laughs] Id like to think I would have noticed eventually.
I don’t blame them because you’re able to see visibly how much pain they were in.
Bayleigh was crying because of her knee, a lot.
You don’t know when it’s going to end.
I have never felt cold like it in my life and I hope I never do again.
We all just hobbled together on top of a peak in the Austrian Alps freezing our butts off.
I don’t know what that must have felt like for her, feeling that physically exhausted.
I don’t blame both of them.
You were sent into elimination right before the final and won in Hall Brawl against Dee.
I had to avenge myself.
I had so much determination for that.
There was no way I was going to let her beat me.
So when I did beat her, it was such an overwhelming sense of achievement.
And then to win on top of that, it was very overwhelming.
I didn’t really believe TJ when he told me I had won.
I always thought if I won aChallengeI would cry.
And I didn’t!
And other people cried who didn’t win.
Maybe I would have cried if I didn’t win.
My teeth were frozen shut.
Most people would never find themselves in two Hall Brawls, particularly in two seasons back to back.
Tori completely owned that one last season.
I’ve never done contact sports in my life.
I went and hired a coach to help me with stuff like that.
And obviously it paid off because I learned so much from him.
The chances of me even doing that elimination again is so slim.
Are you doing anything different?
I always work on my fitness, it’s something I do daily.
I’ll always do it, whether I’m onThe Challengeor not.
What are the chances well see you in the just-announced season 36?
I don’t know yet myself.
[Laughs] If MTV asks me, I will do it.
It fills me with dread as well as excitement at the same time.
Ill find out soon hopefully!
