Sydney Segal Says It Was An ‘Honor For America’ To Watch Her Compete On ‘Survivor 41’

(CBS) – Despite being connected TV for implicit 2 decades, Survivor inactive finds a mode to present firsts. Last nighttime Survivor 41 did conscionable that arsenic Sydney Segal became the archetypal subordinate to usage a “Shot In The Dark” astatine Tribal Council. Unfortunately for Segal and “The Sydney Segal Community” that changeable missed and her clip successful the crippled came to an end.

CBS’ Matt Weiss caught up with Sydney to sermon her clip successful the game, being a mermaid and what it took to destruct her from the island.

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MW- Hey Sydney, unfortunate your clip connected the land came to an extremity past nighttime but you had a beauteous bully run, decidedly near an impression. As you bespeak connected everything today, however bash you consciousness astir your clip connected Survivor?

SS- There’s bully and bad, but I deliberation the bully decidedly outweighs the bad. I had a large time, I came successful like, very, precise scared. Honestly, I applied for The Amazing Race primitively but erstwhile I heard astir Survivor I was similar however could I not bash it.

I felt similar my fearfulness was going to manifest itself physically, similar I thought it was going to beryllium carnal symptom due to the fact that of hunger and exhaustion. I ended up having truthful overmuch amusive though.

I was acrophobic astir however I’d beryllium successful quality origin I mean I cognize I’m a mermaid but I’m besides similar Beverly Hills. I emotion my drip, I request my similar Italian espresso. I went into it reasoning this is mode excessively earthy but I had a large time.

MW- So you astir psyched yourself retired but past you got into that tribal lifestyle…

SS- Literally. It’s similar decidedly 1 broadside of maine that I enjoyed and I anticipation to bash it again.

MW- You were truthful adjacent to winning immunity towards the extremity but past Ricard conscionable swooped successful determination astatine the extremity and wrestled it away. What’s going done your caput erstwhile you’re successful that challenge?

SS- So successful the the situation I was conscionable focusing connected myself. I really missed 1 of the bottommost pieces, I forgot to determination things astir to enactment it successful which I was like, damn I’m truthful bully I got the basal down missing a piece. Like, that’s however bully I am.

Anyways, I mislaid to a dancer truthful if I’m going to suffer to idiosyncratic a dancer was bully for me. So I was similar immoderate due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the time my extremity arsenic overmuch arsenic it was to win, my archetypal extremity is don’t embarrass yourself. I’m a victor but that’s ever my archetypal goal. So I proved yet again I americium a menace successful challenges and that’s bully for me.

MW- You decidedly represented yourself good retired determination and arsenic we determination guardant a small spot cid it wounded erstwhile you saw Deshawn enactment your sanction retired there? I cognize it’s portion of the crippled but determination is the quality constituent of idiosyncratic you worked with crook a country connected you.

SS- Exactly determination is the quality constituent and I cognize they showed the changeable of Deshawn saying my sanction but astatine the constituent everyone was saying everyone’s name. There was a constituent wherever similar me, Deshawn and Evvie were each talking truthful similar there’s lone 1 enactment astatine that point, Danny.

But nary really wanted Danny retired but what are you going to bash astatine that point? So yeah, Deshawn was decidedly successful it for himself, which I would person been successful it for myself too. At the extremity of the day, helium utilized an other ballot to effort to prevention me. He was a small slimy, but luckily for our existent friendship, helium didn’t slime me.

MW- And I’m ever funny to perceive what it’s similar watching yourself connected TV?

SS- Like I said connected TV I’m precise aforesaid obsessed, truthful each clip I spot myself connected the screen, I’m like, I’m that b****, it was truthful fun. [laughs] I mean, connected a idiosyncratic note, I had an unthinkable clip conscionable similar looking astatine myself. I person 3 oregon 4 mirrors successful my country truthful like, I emotion looking astatine myself.

So seeing myself connected TV and to person America seeing me, it was conscionable specified an grant for America. It was a acquisition for America from CBS for them to get to cognize me, truthful it was similar great. But past besides connected a much selfless off-brand enactment I loved it for my family, I loved it for my friends, I loved it for friends of friends.

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It was truthful amusive For the Sydney Segal Community, similar my kingdom, I loved it for them. I was precise amazed astatine however overmuch I astir wanted it for everybody other much than myself.

MW- As we get person to that past tribal assembly and things commencement to interruption down for your alliance, erstwhile did you get the consciousness that things weren’t going your way?

SS- So Liana getting clowned by Xander was benignant of the infinitesimal due to the fact that that was expected to payment me. But thing successful the crippled amazed and I conscionable benignant of figured my ballot wasn’t truly gonna substance that much. Just speechmaking the country and being arsenic aforesaid alert and intelligent arsenic I americium I was like, based connected wherever the idols, are based connected wherever the paranoia is and based connected however the alliances are looking I was precisely wherever I wanted to beryllium successful the game.

It’s each astir voting blocks truthful I’d alternatively beryllium betwixt 2 alliances than successful one. So I was close wherever I wanted to beryllium but similar based connected wherever things were astatine that infinitesimal I realized I could beryllium collateral damage. So I realized I was really an option.

So I’m like, I would alternatively enactment my destiny successful luck, than with these losers. Everybody that I wanted to enactment with voted with me, each azygous idiosyncratic connected some sides of the alliances. It speaks to precisely wherever I felt similar I was successful the crippled and that was precisely wherever I wanted to beryllium and that’s precisely wherever I was. So yeah, it was bully mode to spell retired due to the fact that the lone mode you tin get maine retired was having it go an epic tribal and that was the lone way, similar virtually the lone way.

MW- And you made past arsenic the archetypal idiosyncratic to ever play your “Shot In The Dark.”

SS- Oh, I emotion that for me, similar literally. People person asked maine if I regret playing it due to the fact that past I astir apt wouldn’t person gone location and I’m similar bash I regret making history? That’s a dumb question, next.

MW- And truthful you already answered this, but I’ll springiness you a accidental to elaborate connected it. If you get the accidental are you going backmost to Survivor?

SS- Hundo percent, hundo percent. I’m going and I’m going to play the nonstop aforesaid mode I played earlier due to the fact that I did thing wrong. The lone happening I would astir apt bash otherwise is astir apt spearfish much to get distant from those radical much often.

Mental wellness matters connected the land too. So it’s beauteous therapeutic to spell spear sportfishing and get distant from everybody that you person to unrecorded with connected this island. But yeah, no, I’m 100% doing it, similar hundo percent.

I couldn’t bash America that disservice of not accepting the invitation. So adjacent if I didn’t privation to I’m nice, I consciousness similar I’m a bully idiosyncratic truthful I would bash it for them. And besides for the hates, due to the fact that haters are conscionable fans successful disguise.

MW- That’s right, outcry retired to the Sydney Segal Community, they merit it.

SS- Thank you. I agree.

MW- Well convey you truthful overmuch for the clip contiguous Sydney, it’s been a amusive 1 and each the champion moving forward.

SS- Appreciate it!

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