She won three individual immunity challenges, including the final one of the season.
She was part of a three-headed power alliance that appeared to be controlling the game at the merge.
Everybody that came after her ended up having their torch snuffed, instigating the so-called “Cassidy Curse.
Cassidy Clark on ‘Survivor 43’.CBS
“None of it mattered.
Why did Cassidy not connect with the jury?
How surprised was she by the result?
Cassidy Clark on ‘Survivor 43’.CBS
The result was an open, honest, and raw interview from theSurvivor 43runner-up.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Listen, I was shocked by the jury result here.
I certainly did not see it coming.
Cassidy Clark on ‘Survivor 43’.Robert Voets/CBS
How shocked were you?
CASSIDY CLARK:I was pretty shocked as well.
I just felt like I had set myself up for the win.
Cassidy Clark on ‘Survivor 43’.CBS
And I think even between me and Owen we were in awe.
Good for Gabler obviously I never want to take away from somebody’s win.
He really pulled that out.
Jeff Probst and Cassidy Clark on ‘Survivor 43’.CBS
But yeah, I got to say I was a little surprised.
But it was also because I didn’t want to vote another woman out.
And I talked a little bit about in theEW story that was out today.
I didn’t understand.
I felt like she was doing it as a last bit of revenge against me in a way.
Do you feel like she poisoned the jury against you, which she was threatening to do?
If that is the case, that’s really unfortunate.
So it was hard to come to terms with that.
What was your reaction?
I was like, that’s extremely petty.
I thought that was not the kind of game I wanted to play.
And I just felt like it was really dirty to make a run at do.
She was throwing all types of insults and different things at me that whole day.
The conversation was way more intense than what was shown.
I’m going to see to it everyone knows the fact that they weren’t your moves.”
All those jot down of stuff.
And I was like, damn that really hurts.
Looking at her on the jury, I’m sad that this is how it ended.
Also, obviously it really wasn’t me pandering to her at that time.
But, at the same time, I did regret that.
And so I was just trying to be honest about that.
Besides underestimating Gabler, that was my other regret.
Well, I think everyone did.
So you walk into Tribal, you’re feeling pretty confident.
And then how did you feelduringTribal?
Did it feel like it was slipping away to you?
It did a little bit.
I don’t know if that’s true, but that was how it felt.
And so it was discouraging.
It was just a lot of hard things to overcome in that moment.
And then you feel it slipping away, and it’s difficult.
I was like, “Oh my God, this feels like Tony inWinners at War.
“Every time he was talking, the jury was eating it up.
And I saw that with Gabler, and it really surprised me.
I was like, “Wow, he has them.”
I didn’t realize that was going to be the case.
It almost felt to a point like he was rambling.
But they were just really eating it up and I was just surprised.
Do you think this jury held that against you, because we saw Noelle ask you about it?
That was a crazy amount of pressure to work under and the biggest immunity of the season.
You have to risk it.”
He was playing an incredible game.
He wasn’t even in the game!
Especially if I went out and I lost, because I wasn’t that confident in my fire-making ability.
And if I had lost that, I would’ve never lived that down.
I’ve talked to people like Mike Turner and Xander from recent seasons who went through this.
That has to be mental and emotional whiplash.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
We’re drinking!”
And so it was difficult.
But it is what it is.
What about once you got some distance from it.
Yeah, it’s something that I’ve gone through cycles with in my head.
I know people are like, “But you got to the end.
You should be so proud.”
I really am, and I’m proud of the game I played.
Because going into it, I wasn’t sure that I was actually capable of what I did.
And so to be that close, you want to be proud of yourself.
But I’m still really proud of the game that I played no matter what.
Any moments or moves or anything that you wish it that made it to air that didn’t?
Oh gosh, there’s so much.
And we had worked together to slowly make that happen.
And they didn’t really show that, I think maybe to not make it too obvious.
But I really wish that I had had more of my relationships and my strategic game shown in general.
Because I worked really hard in that regard.
