The ousted player also reveals what happened when she spilled the beans to Zach about Maryanne’s big crush.
Marya Sherron didn’t go all the way to Fiji to winSurvivor.
Sure, that would have been nice, and nobody would thumb their nose at a million dollars.
Mayra Sherron on ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
And then they voted her out anyway.
Such is the harsh reality ofSurvivor, and such was Marya’s fate just five days intoSurvivor 42.
Did her tribe let me know before Tribal Council that she was the one to go?
The cast of ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
And did she get a chance to bury her necklace as she hoped?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So what happened?
Why are you here talking to me right now instead of much later in the season?
MARYA SHERRON: I don’t think I started playing until day four and day five.
I think I was trying to feel it out and it is so much faster.
Now I know watching the extra scenes that they had made alliances from day one.
So I was still trying to build relationships and [have] it just be an organic thing.
That’s not very wise.
Do you feel like you were making some social bonds, but you weren’t making strategic bonds?
Was that the problem?
My number one alliance went home, so that kind of threw it.
Jackson and I were the closest.
We connected really well.
And then he left at the start of day three.
And my other social alliance, we just never consummated anything.
So the relationship was there, it was just too late.
So how did you do out there in terms of everything with your brother?
The 14-day quarantine before, I felt like I dealt with what I needed to deal with there.
There’s something for you here.
So my emotions were heightened.
I just wasn’t looking at a game and the things that I needed to be looking at.
And also a little unbalanced, you know?
To me, it’s harder than looking for an idol.
It was emotional, but a good emotional.
It wasn’t too much is what I would say.
What about once the camera shut off and you go to Ponderosa?
Because now there are also the other emotions in terms of being cut from your tribe early.
How was everything after you left the game?
There are a couple of things that were jarring about myself that I learned.
And one of those is that I don’t allow myself to be emotional.
But I also realized I was jealous.
Like I’m watching this 23-year-old girl, she’s half my age.
Are we allowed to do that?"
You haven’t cried about your brother yet.
It was going on a year.
it’s crucial that you allow yourself to unleash like that and be okay.
Maybe that’s what I needed.
So, in Ponderosa, I hadn’t quite hit that yet.
I was still like, “I’m voted out.
Everything is fine.”
And I immediately shifted my care to the next person, and then the next person.
So it sounds like the mom instinct kicked in out there a little bit.
Yeah, mom, teacher, and it was so wonderful to see because I saw it very quickly.
I would actually walk last when we would walk as a tribe.
And I’m like, “Why am I always in the back?”
Because I, I feel like as the mother, that’s what I do.
I’m there to confirm everyone else is okay.
It can be detrimental.
So that is a huge, huge personal growth thing.
Like, wow, you gotta address that.
It’s okay to cry.
Immediately, I was devastated.
It was like, “Oh my gosh, this is what I was supposed to do.”
Then, I’m at Ponderosa and I was getting a massage and I had to take it off.
It wasn’t a voice.
It was just this is not the time or the place.
And I cried then.
That made me cry.
But I knew that it was okay.
That it was a great idea, but it just wasn’t the time or the place.
And I think I’ll know when and where and how.
And so he’s just here with me.
And I’m okay with that.
I think that’s good.
Something to look forward to.
And I like that he’s still close to your heart literally.
So, you played your Shot in the Dark and you seemed to know it was you.
Did the tribe tip you off or could you just tell by the way they were acting?
There are a couple of key choices that I made that were horrible, but I could see it.
That is someone trying too hard.
And Jonathan said something.
And I just thought about it again.
It was like, you’re trying too hard.
It’s too much.
So I promised my 11-year-old son that I would leave nothing on the island.
I’m like, I don’t know, this is my gut.
This is my feel.
So we are playing this because I’m not going home with anything.
We’re gonna give everything we have and then I’ll be fine with whatever happens.
Let’s say your Shot in the Dark had worked.
Who goes home on the revote?
I think Maryanne would’ve gone home.
Watching last night, I really didn’t think there was that much of a back and forth.
I thought it was just me.
But watching it, Jonathan and Lindsay were [super tight] at that point.
He never even came up because you like him so much.
You said at one point you weren’t sure you could live with Maryanne for 26 days.
What was that high-energy experience like?
I’m gonna start by saying it’s me, it’s not you.
That was another thing I learned about myself.
I’m around younger people all the time, their lingo, their whatever.
But I realized in a controlled environment, because I was the professor, I’m always in charge.
There is just a part of me that’s like, I actually need quiet time.
Like, I can’t hear you anymore and it’s not you, but it’s you.
It just was nonstop.
I just wanted to be like “CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY!”
And Lindsay’s a talker too.
So if there was a brief moment where Maryanne was quiet, then Lindsay was going.
There was no belief in let’s just look at the stars or the water.
So I learned that about myself.
So when you got to Ponderosa did you tell Zach that Maryanne had a big crush on him?
I spilled the beans.
Oh, he loved it.
He was like, “This is great for me.
I’m living in the game, even though I’m out of the game through Maryanne.”
And she became his number one.
So it’s cute.
What’s something that happened out there that you wish we had gotten a chance to see?
Two things come to mind immediately.
One is in the first challenge, and that challenge was a beast, an absolute beast.
My husband asked when we were watching, “Why are [you] all sandy?”
And so selfishly I wanted that in the show so I could seem strong for my boys.
In general, for Jonathan, he is superhuman.
We didn’t have ripe coconuts.
We had a really hard time finding ripe coconuts.
And he literally straddles these two different coconut trees and climbs up and then knocks them down.
And it’s likebeyondOzzy.
It was just unreal watching him.
I was like, wow.
I mean, that’s how I looked most of the time when he was doing stuff.
So my nickname for him was Aquaman.
Physically, he’s what you want in a tribemate.
[Laughs]
Finally, you said you were heading out there to find closure.
Did you ultimately find the closure you were looking for?
There’s more, and more continues to unfold and reveal itself.
It’s not just the one-shot deal.
You’re not gonna drop a necklace in the sand and have closure.
It is kind of silly that I even thought that, so no.
And that’s why I said I’m looking forward to it, but the journey has been beautiful.
I don’t wanna rush it at this point.
I don’t even know that I want closure.
