“I was anxious.
It’s not fun and it’s also not normal to watch people conspiring against you on TV.”
Justine Brennan is in cyber security sales for a living.
Justine Brennan on ‘Survivor’ 43.Robert Voets/CBS
Whether that makes sense or not doesn’t really matter, because Justine is out ofSurvivor43 because of it.
How did it all go so wrong so fast for Justine?
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The Vesi tribe on ‘Survivor’ 43.Robert Voets/CBS
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So Cody the sales person wanted to get sales people out of the game.
What do you make of that?
The Vesi tribe of ‘Survivor’ 43.Robert Voets/CBS
JUSTINE BRENNAN:I honestly don’t know what to make of it.
So I honestly don’t know what to make of it.
I guess we’ll see.
So why are you here talking to me now?
Obviously I was initially targeted for being in sales.
She’s a threat to my game."
What should I go back to them with?"
And he was really strategizing with us to a point where I thought I was safe.
So I was targeted initially because I was in sales.
And then I wanted to trust Jesse.
Just trust Jesse, Noelle is trusting Jesse, Dwight says we’re good with Jesse.
And that obviously worked against me.
How do you feel you performed in the challenges, because I couldn’t really tell watching it?
That’s another thing.
Me and Cody were the first two people to dive into the water and swim to that wall.
I wish they showed more of that.
But the challenges were so much fun.
Honestly, going into them, I was definitely feeling the starvation and the sleep deprivation.
And I thought like, “Wow, I might pass out on national television during this.”
But then once the challenges start, the adrenaline is just rushing through your body.
And so, for me, you don’t even think about being hungry.
You don’t think about anything else.
You’re just in it.
But I thought I did pretty well in the challenges.
That came from my brain."
I went intoSurvivorthinking, just don’t sign up for the puzzles.
But when it comes down to it, I could have done that puzzle.
Honestly, I blacked out when Jeff read that third vote that said Justine.
I was like, “Maybe they’ll take me to the Edge.”
It was similar to Mariah!
And then of course it’s the end.
And then it’s like you have to live it twice, right?
It was a mixture of both.
It’s funny because the show has a therapist that you talk to, which is great.
And I was like, that’s actually an interesting way of looking at it.
But now that I’ve lived it out, I completely agree.
For a couple of days leading up to last night’s episode, I couldn’t really sleep.
It’s not fun and it’s also not normal to watch people conspiring against you on TV.
[Laughs]So it is a, a very highly stressful situation.
And yes, I have breathed a sigh of relief now that it’s done.
And honestly, I thought it was a great episode.
You talked about Jesse and how he was playing both sides.
What was your relationship with him out there and did that surprise you to see that?
It hurts a little bit.
We all trusted each other and that started pretty early, and we knew that we needed numbers.
Cody and Nneka never really spoke to me, honestly.
I was the only person Cody never spoke game with.
I could tell that I was a target for them, and I said that in my confessionals.
I actually like this guy.
I can see myself building trust for him.
I’m just not completely there yet."
On the flip side of that, you and Noelle immediately hit it off.
How did you two bond so quickly?
So we just hit it off immediately.
We were both really competitive.
Again, we’re similar in age.
And obviously her story and her vulnerability made it easy to connect with her.
Let’s talk about the infamous bead.
Any suspicion at all when Cody asked for your bead that something might be up?
I had no suspicions at all.
Here it is!"
And even at Tribal, I’m like, “Ha Ha Ha!
He made this funny hat!
I want one!”
I was always nice to Cody, and I’m fine being memorialized in that way.
Obviously, hindsight is 20-20, but I had no suspicion whatsoever.
You ere playing the social game.
You were doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing!
I will also say like there’s confusion about why we split our votes between Cody and Nneka.
And in that case we didn’t want to have to fall back on me going home.
We wanted that to be Cody.
But I was so confident that Jesse was with us, which is why I didn’t.
What’s up with you and spiders?
Is this a spider-specific fear or just any creepy crawlies in general?
Hey, who likes spiders?
[Laughs]Like, that’s a better question.
People are like, “Oh my God, Justine is on the wrong show!”
And it’s like, no one goes onSurvivorforthe spiders.
And also everyone else on my tribe was equally like, “Oh, spiders!”
Of course, they only show a montage of me doing that.
[Laughs]But yes, I hate spiders.
I’m terrified of them.
I don’t like spiders here, or there, or anywhere.
I’ll shout it from the rooftops.
I’m not ashamed of that.
Anything else we didn’t see out there that you wish had made it on TV?
And one of the things on my bucket list was to make fire.
And I’m just glad that they showed that.
We need to keep them for strength.
They’ll probably make merge."
