The ousted player also reveals her strong warning to Vesi and an unaired bag search.
Lindsay Carmine thought they were all out to get her.
But she thought wrong.
Lindsay Carmine on ‘Survivor’ 43.Robert Voets/CBS
And that, ultimately, was her undoing.
Lindsay showed up onSurvivor43 after having watched the show for over two decades.
She was living her dream out on the beaches of Fiji.
Cassidy Clark and Lindsay Carmine on ‘Survivor 43’.Robert Voets/CBS
But is that really what happened or is there more to the story?
Watch the interview above or read it below.
(Also check out ourfullSurvivor43 episode recap.)
Cassidy Clark and Lindsay Carmine on ‘Survivor 43’.Robert Voets/CBS
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, Lindsay.
Why are you here speaking to me now?
LINDSAY CARMINE: So what you guys didn’t see was we were strong for nine straight days.
Lindsay Carmine on ‘Survivor 43’.Robert Voets/CBS
We had a great thing going.
It was Geo for nine days straight.
He said, “Lindsay, your name’s getting thrown out.”
And I said,“Well, where did you hear that from?”
He thinks you’re a threat and they’re going after you tonight."
However, Geo didn’t want that to be the outcome.
But I think it was valid.
I don’t know where he was heading with that because it would’ve never have gone to Cassidy.
I never wanted Cassy to go home.
I think Geo also wanted to be the one making the call for that night.
I don’t think he wanted Karla to get the credit for sending me home.
He wanted to be the mastermind behind that vote and he definitely wanted Cassidy to go home.
And I thought to myself like, you guys are gaslighting me.
The other concern was we were worried at the time that Geo had the idol.
And I specifically said to Karla, “Hey, why don’t we go talk?”
I’m done talking."
She’s saying that because she’s trying to protect herself in this game.
And so that’s again when you start seeing me scramble.
And then Ryan and I had a really great relationship out there.
Ryan kept calling me Mama Linds.
And then during Tribal Council, Ryan pretty much apologized for having to vote me out that night.
So this didn’t come as a blindside to me.
It’s not you."
And so I had nowhere to go.
There were no other conversations to be had.
I felt like my hands were tied behind my back.
So it was definitely a very frustrating last couple hours on the Coco Beach.
I was never going to turn on my alliance.
I wanted to prove to everybody out there that I was going to stay loyal to the end.
We had no idea.
We just thought she was pulling information from them and then passing it on to us.
But she will admit that her lines were starting to get tangled.
I know she’s saying she’s working with you."
And then I also want to give credit to James.
I don’t think he’s getting enough credit for the game that he’s playing.
Karla, Cassidy, and I all believed that James was our number one from day one.
and I think that speaks lot for the social game that he was playing out there.
And I really do wish you guys could have seen a little bit more of that.
What was it like having to watch it all play back on TV?
But then you have to watch it all play back and watch whole game unravel before your very eyes.
As a fan of the game and a player, that’s not how you want to go out.
And to see me go out like that was definitely heartbreaking.
The great thing about winning challenges is that you don’t have to go to Tribal Council.
And we especially did not see a lot of you after the first week.
Yeah, it’s incredibly frustrating.
We were all really closeandit was a divided tribe.
I’d be lying if I said that I thought that’s really how the vote would go.
It was too easy.
I mean, how many times can you have the same conversation?
Which is “It’s Geo right?
It’s still Geo, it’s still Geo, it’s still Geo.”
There’s nothing I hate more than losing.
It’s one of my toxic traits.
But I went through Geo’s bag.
And so for days we were convinced that Geo had the clue to an immunity idol.
It was really funny.
But we didn’t know that at the time.
Karla did because she had the immunity idol.
Well, Vesi was clearly targeting your tribe all episode.
My biggest fear was that they were going to take our machete.
We needed that machete.
We used that thing day and night and we had a lot of food out there.
And so for us to give that to him was kind of like an olive branch.
That was his reward for not taking our machete.
We were bummed with the fishing gear, but we knew that we could recover from that.
We weren’t gonna be able to recover if they took our pot or our machete.
So you’ve been wanting to get on this show for 22 years.
How do you feel now?
Is there a lot of excitement that you got to live your dream?
Is there some regret that you went out when you did?
How do you process it all together?
Well, Dr. V our psychologist has done a lot of work with me.
I had a great nine days on the island.
I got to live my dream.
I would’ve loved to have been out there way longer.
