Spoiler alert if you have not watched the debut episode of Survivor season 49 on CBS!
If you watched, you’ll know that the “first boot” was a contestant named Nicole Mazullo, who found herself on the losing team after a tough immunity competition.
While deciding who was going to be sent home, the rest of her tribe mates seemed to decide pretty quickly that they wanted to vote her out.
Now, she’s speaking out and sharing that she believes her vote out was the result of one person not liking her.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I think my vote-out was the product of one person not liking me, frankly. And they were just going to have the sole impact on that vote. And it was his vote, basically,” she told EW.
She then named names: “I’m talking about Jake. I think Jake just didn’t like me from the jump, and he just wanted me out, I think he was just like, “Eh, that’s an easy target,” if you will. So I wasn’t going to turn around and hug him. I was like, “Nah, you guys just voted me out. I’m not hugging you.”
She reasoned, “You sometimes you just don’t jibe with people. They didn’t show it, but I put a lot of effort into trying to cultivate a relationship with him…And Survivor is like a microcosm of the world. Some people you just don’t get along with. And so I can appreciate the unpredictability of that and the nature of that.”
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