Congratulations, Elizabeth Olson!
You just made it to the merge!
Unfortunately for her, thats as far as she got.
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Why did Elizabeth do it?
Does she buy Angelinas explanation that it was nothing more than a raw human moment?
And how does she feel about her fellow Goliaths all voting her out?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So what do you think?
What was the motivation for Angelina telling you all that stuff before Tribal Council?
Shes too smart for that.
When Angelina was talking to me, it was two-fold.
I think there was a side of her, that human, genuine, just loving people.
We had a connection.
As well as I had a connection with a lot of people when the merge happened.
And I think she genuinely felt for me.
I am 100 percent confident that played a factor in that conversation.
Theres no doubt in my mind.
Why wait until Tribal Council to drop that bomb?
And Im like, Wait, what?
So I literally had no time.
I only had one option at that point, which was to blow up Tribal.
If I had time, of course I would have blown things up.
But at that point, there were two lies going around.
One was that we were going to give a shot to vote out Dan.
I had no reason to believe that was not a plan that some people were considering.
And then I heard some misdirection, probably from the Strike Force.
It was Alison, so I was not sure who she was speaking for.
I was confident that was a lie.
I was like, theres no way theyre going to send Davie home.
I didnt have reason earlier in the day to know that it was me.
So I didnt have time to tell the Goliaths beforehand, because I certainly would have.
They didnt show that.
I dont want to hear from you!
So I was like, my own tribe doesnt want to hear from me?
Im a fan of the game.
I dont mind if theyre voting for me.
But they wouldnt even consider keeping me in the game?
Granted, hes playing the game, but it was hard.
I just sat down.
We saw him doing that right at the merge.
He got a little beer in him and was talking about wanting to get rid of you.
That must have been tough to watch.Yeah, it really was.
I know my relationship with Carl was strained.
We werent on the same page.
But Im very passionate and full throttle, and hes way laid back.
I felt like we still had a working relationship.
And it was irritating watching it back, to be quite honest.
There was too much whispering going on for it to not be live.
I felt like there was a good chance.
But when I got back around talking to Carl, my shot went down to about 5 percent.
Otherwise I would have focused on those six.
I genuinely believed that I actually did have some really good connections with almost everybody.
I felt like if I had three more days that I could have been sittingextremelygood in the game.
Thats something I think about all the time.
I told myself that from the beginning.
That was the final steps in the challenge.
So, bummer, dude.
What was the deal with your back out there?
It sounds like you were in tons of pain before you even headed out to Fiji.
But yeah, I called people fromSurvivorand said, Hey, dude.
I didnt know it wasDavid vs. Goliath, but they said I was tied to the theme.
I keptSurvivorin the loop about everything.
I never pretended anything different than what was the reality.
It was really bad.
I ended up getting some injections and what-not to try and get game ready.
I had tried over and over and over again to tactfully get the bed switched to help me.
At the beginning of the game you dont really want to say that.
So it was trying to figure out when to be honest about things and when not to.
But, for me, it was more than my back and being miserable sleeping.
I felt my brain going down the toilet because of the lack of sleep.
And I knew that if I was going to winSurvivor, I needed my brain, dude.
Also check that to read our weeklyQ&A with Jeff Probstas well as ourepisode recap.
And find out about all the Jacketgate stuff you didnt see in ourmerge interview with Angelina.
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