37 days, to be exact.
Unfortunately for Alison, that was two days too short.
How did Alison feel about that move?
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What was it like to make it that far, but just not far enough?
And was she frustrated not seeing herself on TV more?
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Lets get into everything that we just saw in the finale.
I call him my Guardian Angel and he called me hisWonder Womandoctor.
And we were a duo.
And so that was the insight I had.
Nick stole my vote, never played with me, and had a vendetta against me.
So I could not appreciate his strategy because I was never included in it.
And I think that, at the end of the day, that biting comment really hurt.
But he owned the biting comment and I was able to look past that.
And to me, Mike was just the person who shined when I reflected on the game.
Lets talk about that plan of Angelinas to have you find a fake idol to play.
Mike called it evil, Nick said it was done only to embarrass you.
Angelina claims it wasnt.
What do you think?I say it was 50/50.
I believe that from Angelinas perspective, there was strategy behind it.
She wanted to get the votes and have a successful idol play.
She then went kind of on a rampage with it and created that fake idol.
Had you been tipped off by Kara about that fake idol?Oh my gosh.
When I find the idol, I grab it and I say, Well look at this!
First of all, I woke up on her putting it in the tree branch.
I mean, it was a janky idol.
The strings were not symmetric and there was the whole scene of me coming up on her.
When I came up on her, she said, Oh my God, Ali, Im so sorry.
She started saying, Im so sad because now Im going to leave the game.
You have an idol and Im going to leave the game.
And it was truly acting from a daytime soap opera.
And it was hilarious because everyone here knew it was fake idol.
Then she went off and sort of fake cried on the beach, as if she was going home.
So it was a lot of high comedy, being the person that was receiving this fake idol.
They saw it as a heartfelt, personal attack.
Yeah, they did not seem impressed.Nope.
So, look, you make it close.
Not quite close enough.
Have you played the What if?
game since you got back?
Theres a reason people were targeting me for Tribal after Tribal after Tribal.
And that was the final season we had seen in total as a cast.
How do you think youd do if you make it to that final three?
I dont want to say mine to lose, because thats not true.
Theres so much complexity to it.
But there was a perception that it was mine to lose.
What happened to you up on that perch in the water?
You couldnt get your balance.
What was going on?Well, first of all, Im deathly afraid of heights.
And so standing on a 15-foot-high whatever it was was just terrifying to me.
So I had reason to believe I had severe electrolyte abnormalities, including low magnesium.
Which leads to muscle twitching.
Every season theres one player that just hardly seems to get any screen time.
And for a long stretch of the season, you were that player.
And I always think about that, because I imagine how difficult it must be.
You go out there, you live this experience 24 hours day.
Thats 72 hours of your life each episode.
And at a certain point, I was the contender, or a major contender.
And to only get a snippet of me getting crushed by a wagon in episode 2.
Or I dont know, a tiny confessional.
It was truly very disheartening.
I also have to say, production has such an insurmountable task.
They have to condense 72 hours times 20 people into 42 minutes.
Thats what you get for being too nice and level headed!
Was there anything in particular you wish had made to the air?I think the relationships I had.
I do believe my relationship with Mike was an essential one.
And my relationship with Kara was an essential one.
I also think that I would have liked to have shared a little bit more of my letters.
I think it was a powerful moment that could have made it on air.
Jeff asked her a question and my mom is… she is very gregarious and a charmer.
And Jeff asked her the question.
She wouldnt answer him.
Im like, Mom, Jeff Probst is speaking to you.
You have to answer Jeff Probst.
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