The eliminated contestant unpacks the ‘chaos’ that led to her getting voted out.
If everyone’s your No.
1 ally, then no one is your No.
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1" ally, and that she was revealing too many secrets to too many people.
Once they all lost trust in her, everyone except Rocksroy Bailey voted her out.
“But I’m feeling good.
Swati Goel explains why she told everyone they’re her ‘No. 1’.Robert Voets/CBS
Obviously, there’s a lot of reflection on like, ‘What could I have done differently?’
But I’m not holding any sort of resentment or anger towards anybody.
I’m really glad that I got to do this.
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It was super cool and I feel like I learned a lot about myself in the process.”
“This key in of losing a game is also just such an invaluable experience to grow.”
Below, EW got Goel to explain why she told everyone they were her No.
1, how she unintentionally caused chaos on her tribe, and more.
The ‘You’re my No.
1’ moment was very funny.
I didn’t realize that that specifically factored so strongly into it.
But I found it very amusing.
1,' ‘You’re my No.
1,’ ‘You’re my No.
I thought the way it was edited was very well done.
[Laughs] Like, it didn’t make me look great, but it was also really funny.
Logically, there can only be one real No.
1 for each player, so they instantly lost trust in you.
That was always my strategy.
It just seemed to me like such a common strategy.
Why would people be upset?
Well, not all things, but tight-lipped about some of the things that I was being told.
It was just mind blowing how fast that information spread.
I realized that I was in trouble literally as soon as I had that conversation with Tori.
I was like, ‘Uh oh, should not have done that.
That was too much information given to somebody.’
That’s the moment I realized that I f—ed up.
But I did give a shot to give a shot to save myself.
I was impressed with the conversation that you had with Drea.
You played that exactly how you needed to in that moment.
I feel like I was so close too!
So close yet so far.
Did you ever consider not playing your Shot in the Dark?
I think it was a little bit of both.
For example, the water ladder challenge.
I do think also that the tribe dynamics of Ika played into that loss.
Do you blame anyone for your exit?
No, I don’t really feel like there’s anybody responsible for my downfall but me.
In that sense, I can’t really blame anybody else.
I made a series of choices and those series of choices lead to an outcome.
[Laughs] Like, it’s fine.
I definitely think there was some initial bitterness right after getting voted off.
Do you feel betrayed by anyone in particular who voted for you?
I don’t feel betrayed by anybody.
My intention when I was playing this game wasn’t actually to create chaos.
It was just to have strong alliances and work with those people.
I think the chaos sort of came from me, literally that one conversation with Tori.
And then I think also, just the general Ika vibe was very, very chaotic.
It’s a game.
[Laughs] I wouldn’t have told Tori that she was on the bottom.
I think I would have just played a little bit more passively for the first few days.
Was that just the exhaustion and lack of food talking?
