‘Survivor’ Season 43, Episode 2: [Spoiler] Eliminated — Exit Interview

The next comprises spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor 43.

No less than Justine Brennan gained’t should spend the remainder of her days in Fiji dodging spiders.

In Wednesday’s episode of Survivor, Vesi struggled via a monstrous storm and a fair scarier problem, as a 400-pound snake and a tough emblem puzzle despatched the pink tribe straight to Tribal Council. However after a beaded Beware Benefit fiasco and shedding the belief of a supposed ally, Justine couldn’t survive the evening and was despatched packing in a 3-1-1 vote. (Learn a full recap right here.)

Beneath, she talks to TVLine in regards to the split-vote plan that by no means occurred, surviving that torrential climate and why trusting Jesse finally led to her downfall.

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TVLINE | Hopefully you’re conducting your interviews this morning from an especially spider-free location.
JUSTINE BRENNAN | [Laughs] Sure, there are not any spiders in my house right here in Marina Del Rey, [Calif.] which is a godsend!

TVLINE | There’s a lot to speak about, however let’s begin with the beads: Would you ever have guessed that these tiny little beads had been tied to a bonus, and when did you be taught the reality about that?
I had no thought and I didn’t be taught the reality about that till I used to be in Ponderosa and extra folks bought voted out. So information bought again to me that sure, that’s how the idol works this season. In fact I used to be identical to, “Yeah, take mine! I don’t care.” Oops!

TVLINE | What was the considering behind the cut up voting?
One thing you don’t actually see within the edit is that Jesse was very a lot taking part in either side. So what you see is he’s just about in an alliance with Cody and Nneka, however he was additionally coming as much as Noelle and I and actively strategizing and volunteering details about what Cody and Nneka had been saying about us behind our backs. A lot in order that we absolutely trusted him by the top of Day 4, going into Day 5. We trusted him. We thought we had been good with Jesse.

The considering behind splitting the votes: Jessie made us really feel so snug that he was with us going into Tribal. We had been so assured that Nneka knew that she was on the chopping block that we had been like, “OK, we wish to have a plan in place for if Nneka performs her Shot within the Darkish and there’s some likelihood that she truly is protected.” And so with Dwight not having a vote, if Nneka had been to play her Shot within the Darkish, she wouldn’t have a vote both which means that would go away me, Jesse, Noelle and Cody voting. We needed to forged sufficient votes the place it might have been a tie between Cody and me if Nneka performed her Shot within the Darkish. That may’ve gone to a revote, wherein case Jesse would’ve been with us, and Cody can be going dwelling.

TVLINE | We noticed you inform Jesse that you just’re an excellent liar, and you then later hinted at the truth that you may not belief him 100%? Do you would like you dealt with these conversations in another way?
The primary one was fully harmless. That was a type of instances the place Jesse was arising and volunteering info to me. He was saying, “Cody and Nneka are confused about why you’re feeling so snug. They assume you have to be a bit extra paranoid by now,” so he was actively strategizing with me. He was like, “I feel that I ought to return and inform them X-Y-Z.” And in order that was a totally taken out of context remark, actually.

However once you see me going as much as Jesse and Dwight and I’m like “So, what’s the deal right here?” yeah, I might have dealt with that in another way. And to be truthful, I feel Jesse had made up his thoughts. He was already voting with Cody and Nneka at that time, so it didn’t actually harm me any greater than it might have. Perhaps it was the nail within the coffin for him that he was making the suitable choice. However he had already made his thoughts up that he was voting in opposition to me at that time. What are you able to do?

TVLINE | Inform me all the pieces about surviving that storm! It regarded fairly unhealthy.
I’m glad you introduced that up as a result of I’m so bummed they didn’t present the Vesi camp! I feel that Vesi and Baka had it the worst. I don’t assume Coco had a horrible storm and in the event that they did, I don’t assume it was as unhealthy. However that was an excellent 4 or 5 hours of it simply dumping rain on us. And also you noticed our shelter… it collapsed. We needed to rebuild it, I child you not, like three or 4 instances. We needed to relocate it and all the pieces. We didn’t have a correct roof that evening so we had been actually sitting there simply huddled up. I used to be doing my finest to place my bag in between my legs and protect myself with my jacket over my head so the water would cascade off of me. I needed to maintain as a lot of my bag and my garments as dry as potential as a result of that’s one thing you don’t actually see once you’re watching as a fan. You don’t understand that when it dumps like that, all your garments are moist and also you’re simply soaking. You’re not dry till the solar comes out and shines for an excellent couple of hours. And I suppose you might see that on Gabler’s foot and when the fellows at Baka had been resting their swollen, pruny ft by the fireplace. But it surely was brutal, and so they didn’t present any of Vesi throughout that. We went via that storm too!

TVLINE | That problem regarded extraordinarily tough! What went mistaken for Vesi there?
It breaks my coronary heart to look at it performed again as a result of I didn’t understand that there was a degree the place we had been forward of Baka and Coco bringing that snake over the wall. That was extraordinarily tough. I do know they’ve had that problem earlier than in previous seasons, however I wish to say that that they had tribes of 10 once they had been doing that. So there have been extra folks lifting the snake out of the water, however that was, I neglect, like a 400- or 500-pound snake. And on high of that, it had this tarp wrapped round all of it, in order that provides further weight to it. It was brutal.

It sucks as a result of it’s these challenges that perpetuate the necessity to preserve that stronger tribe. And I’m responsible of that, too. Final evening, I used to be preventing to vote out Nneka to maintain our tribes robust. It sucks as a result of ladies don’t have the identical odds on this sport. So to should really feel like you must vote out one other feminine sucks, and that clearly signifies that the fellows in your staff are saved for bodily power. So challenges like that, I’m not an enormous fan of. Survivor can simply make a whole season with non-strength associated challenges, nevertheless it’s stuff like that the place it’s identical to “Yeah, so clearly we now have to vote out the ladies and preserve guys in.” That is likely to be a testomony to why you see me and Morriah out. And I feel that tribes of six type of encourage the voting out of ladies too.

TVLINE | Cody looks as if a personality! What was it like dwelling with him every day?
The primary time I heard his voice, I used to be so confused. Like, what’s that accent? [Laughs] However I perceive why they casted him. He’s just about actuality TV gold. He’s hilarious to look at on TV, and that’s precisely how he was in individual. Cody is who he’s. None of that’s performing. That’s simply how he’s as an individual. I knew that I used to be a goal for him and Nneka your complete time, however I nonetheless discovered him amusing. I used to be by no means imply to Cody on the market. I used to be good sufficient to not solely give him my beads, but additionally praise his hat proper earlier than he crucified me. However he’s a personality. That’s one of the simplest ways of claiming it. He’s a personality.

TVLINE | For those who might change one factor about the way you performed or what went down previous to your exit, what would that be?
It will be to belief my intestine. I feel the beginning of my downfall was when Dwight risked his vote after which misplaced it. At that time, Dwight was in our circle of belief. Dwight was with me and Noelle. We had three votes up till that time. It’s onerous to say what would have occurred if he hadn’t risked his vote, however I might have trusted my intestine, which meant not trusting Jesse. I might have performed my Shot within the Darkish if I had recognized that I used to be on the underside and about to get minimize. However yeah, there are lots of totally different transferring elements the place I might have accomplished one thing totally different, however I strive not to consider that.

TVLINE | So that you had zero inclination that it is likely to be you, and that perhaps you need to use your Shot?
No! I completely thought Jesse was with us. And you’ll even see that within the response of Noelle, who was identical to, mouth open, shocked as a result of we thought we might belief him. And you then see Dwight flip to Jesse and he’s like, “You probably did it?” as a result of he thought that he might belief Jesse. So I had no thought! If I had recognized that I used to be on the chopping block, I completely would have performed my Shot within the Darkish, however I’m not going to lie, it’s type of cool having it now as a memento, so no matter. [Laughs]