Ricard Foye entered theSurvivor 41finale as the biggest threat to win the game.
Which is precisely why he didn’t.
Would Ricard have won the challenge had Erika not had an advantage?
Ricard Foyé on ‘Survivor 41’.Robert Voets/CBS
How would he have done at a final four fire-making competition?
And why did he vote for Erika to win over his bromance partner Xander Hastings?
RICARD FOYE:I do.
Ricard Foyé on ‘Survivor 41’.Robert Voets/CBS
I have no hesitation in that.
That’s just the editing and I would’ve kicked ass in that puzzle.
But it’s fine.
Ricard Foyé and Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 41’.Robert Voets/CBS
And so I have to accept that, but I do believe I would have won that puzzle.
I’m good at puzzles.
Does that make it harder to go that way?
I think it does.
That would show, “Oh, he was actually willing to do it.
It’s just it wasn’t for the right person.”
But the reality was, Erika had immunity.
She had Deshawn in her back pocket and Heather was her ride or die.
I truly believe there was a chance that he could have done better by keeping me longer.
I have explained that to him.
I think there’s a difference between having a friendship and just honoring gameplay.
In my heart, I felt that Heather and Erika played an all-around better game.
I felt other people felt that way.
I felt I could beat anyone, but other folks viewed him as not a threat.
He just seemed inauthentic out there.
They don’t believe what I say even when I’m telling the truth.
It’s just a character trait.
So he didn’t really have to be all that savvy in the game, which I hate.
I don’t want to diss on him in any capacity, but that’s just how I felt.
Was that just seen as a massive miscalculation?
I felt like his game was over a while before that.
How do you bring the next biggest target and not take her out with fire?"
We allknewshe couldn’t make fire!
She never made fire at camp.
So I don’t really know where that even came from.
Let’s chart your path here a little bit.
Let’s say that you do win that immunity at final five.
And I was on a tribe where Brad was very much, “Men are strength.”
But that aside, he was going to keep me because I was a man in the game.
That’s why he kept J.D.
He was like, “We need to keep strength.
Let’s take out Sarah.”
Sarah was a beast!
She was a phenomenal swimmer.
So I knew I was going to be safe for a while there and so I hid everything.
I never once made a fire in front of anybody.
I just really hid who I was in my strength because I wanted to play a Natalie Anderson game.
I wanted to be underestimated, and I was.
So let’s just play it out even further.
Let’s say you either win the last challenge or you make fire and make it to the end.
Is there anyone that can beat you at the end?
Were you saving that for day 26?
Absolutely, I was.
Yeah, I did have that in mind, but it was also self-preservation.
I didn’t want to think or talk about the possibility of missing the birth.
Also, I kind of wish they had left something in.
Jeremy, when he went to vote out Kimmi inSecond Chance,he skipped to the voting booth.
And after I dropped my little truth bomb of, “I’m expecting a baby.
What date did you get home and what date was the birth?
When I actually got home, I think it was May 12.
And he’s a rainbow baby, since we lost our last baby.
And so it’s this cute little June 1 baby.
So what else didn’t we get to see this season?
I think it was pretty jarring to me to not show how my bond with Shan formed.
I’m going to do this.”
We were so in sync in every capacity, even when we fought.
I also wish they showed that we instantly made up.
I can play under the radar."
Have you been recognized bySurvivorfans while working on Alaska Airlines and what’s that been like?
I have some features about myself that are very identifiable, specifically my silver hair.
I am recognizedconstantlyand I really did not anticipate that.
I am recognized all the fricking time every day, all the time.
So that’s jarring.
I really did not anticipate it, as silly as that might sound.
