The ousted contestant also takes us inside that crazy tie at Tribal Council.
Jenny Kim didn’t necessarily do anything wrong onSurvivor 42.But people in her alliance sure did.
about taking part in a tiebreaker that night send him home, Jenny had her torch snuffed byJeff Probst.
Jenny Kim from ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
What was Jenny’s reaction as she watched Daniel cave and Hai stand strong?
What did she think of Chanelle’s decision to risk her vote?
And would she have gone to rocks herself to save one of them?
Chanelle and Jenny on ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
JENNY KIM:By a couple of numskulls?
Yeah, that was tough to watch.
I knew that Mike and I had been working with Chanelle and Daniel for some time.
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But all along, I knew that Chanelle and Daniel were riding the middle.
To what degree, I did not really know until my final Tribal Council.
So, I already knew I was screwed.
The cast of ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
So yeah, that was very disappointing.
And at that point, my fate was no longer in my hands.
Daniel started off by immediately saying that he wasn’t going to go to rocks.
What is going through your mind as he says that?
I didn’t blame him, to be honest.
I knew that as a super fan, he probably was not gonna go to rocks.
I knew as a super fan, I would not have gone to rocks in that situation.
It would’ve been very difficult to convince me to do that.
So I had a very hard time trying to convince him to go to rocks.
So, Hai and I talked [before Tribal Council] about who to vote for.
And when we talked, I got him to basically throw out Lydia and Daniel’s names.
You have to take a stab at bluff, right?
That’s absolutely true.
Well, I know what I have to say now."
What is going on here?"
I was definitely in self-preservation mode.
He rightfully called out Daniel in that moment and Daniel had to scramble.
Daniel was outed as being in the middle at that point.
And I think that was Hai’s intention was to really reveal Daniel’s duplicity at that time.
Was that fair and accurate?
I think that was fair.
Daniel would’ve gone along with the plan.
Both Chanelle and Daniel still wanted to work with me and Mike.
Chanelle knew she didn’t have a vote.
Like, how did I not keep Chanelle out from risking that vote there?
No, she told a very different story.
She only told the truth to Daniel.
Cause I did didn’t really fully know what happened out there.
To the whole group, what she said was she could risk it or play it safe.
And she told us if she risked it, she would’ve lost votes fortwoTribal Councils.
So yeah, we went into Tribal thinking Chanelle would be stupid to have lost her vote.
So when the first tie vote came back, did you realize immediately?
Immediately I glare over at Chanelle saying, “Do something!”
And she’s like, “I don’t have a vote.”
I’m like, “Yeah, no s—!
I know that, but say something to Hai.”
So she was trying to stay safe with the group that would be left if I went home.
I just couldn’t believe that she would risk her vote like that.
So anything else that happened during that Tribal that we didn’t get to see during all that discussion?
It just went on forever.
The big thing is that Daniel really revealed that he was playing both sides in a heavy way.
And at that point I was like, “All right, my game is sunk right here.
I have the majority, but I only have two votes with that majority.”
So there was no reason for that vote to go to a tie.
But it didn’t work.
She never should have lost her vote to begin with.
And Daniel never should have shared information with Hai.
But Daniel is kind of sharing a lot, all around.
You all were pretty much knocked off your platforms from the very start.
What was your experience like out there?
The boats take this out to set up on the platforms and they tell us to sit down.
Cause we’re not able to stand already.
We’re in surfer mode.
We’re all afraid of falling in the water before the challenge even starts.
They tell us to sit down until we’re ready to go.
And Jeff’s like, “All right, as soon as you stand, we gotta go.
You’re gonna be standing for no time.
My tribe was probably the laziest of all tribes in terms of helping with building the shelter.
What you saw was total BS.
Mike and I built that whole shelter.
Mike and I were completely tired.
We had no energy left.
There was no food.
There was no food being gathered or anything.
Honestly, Hai, Daniel, Chanelle, and Lydia were doing nothing to help us.
So by the time that challenge hit, there were no calories in us.
And our bodies just could not move in that water that would’ve been carrying me away anyway.
I was really being carried away.
At any point did you start to worry about your safety in those swells?
Honestly, I’m someone who trusts in the people that are there to protect me.
That’s the magic word.”
I was like, “Okay, I can remember that.
But in that moment in the water, I remember just thinking, “Don’t yell help.
Don’t yell help.
you might do this.
you’ve got the option to get back there.
“There was no way I was gonna end that challenge for my team.
What was your reaction when Jeff called you all in to shore?
Honestly, by then, I was a little bit relieved.
I don’t think they could show enough.
Chanelle was hanging on for dear life on the pole.
She could not budge.
She was frozen and Mike and Hai are trying to lift the ladder.
But yeah, it was a crazy challenge.
You and Mike formed a quick alliance out there.
And I said, “Yeah, I can do this.
If everyone shuts up, I can do this.
Make everyone go away.”
And in that way, we had a very shared mindset and similarity.
And then as we started building camp, our work ethic was the same.
We were just more likeminded in so many ways.
We shared interest in movies and music and things like that as well.
I don’t think it was just because we were the older people.
I don’t think age was a huge factor.
It was just personality.
You jive better with certain people than others.
Mike is just my kind of people, and I knew right away.
What’s something else that happened out there that we didn’t get to see on TV?
I just feel like there wasn’t a lot of the social dynamics that were shown.
There was so much love there immediately.
And I wish they had shown more of that.
I definitely got along with everyone.
We still tried to keep camp life light.
And Mike and Lydia certainly brought tons of levity camp life.
And it was a lot of fun having them around.
I wish they had shown more of that.
It’s so hard because I knew I had the majority.
She clearly doesn’t wanna work with me.”
Cause we’d be sitting down together at camp, you know, having a great time.
People would slowly go off to get water and whatnot.
It’s like, “Oh wow, okay.
You don’t wanna talk to me.”
And so I would’ve pushed that relationship a lot harder.
And I think knowing what I do now, I would’ve just been more aggressive.
