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From that rattling memorable (and quite disastrous) prototypal Tribal Council of Survivor: Redemption Island, Kristina Kell seemed to hit a thickened road aweigh of her. She institute a hidden immunity idol, which Phillip Sheppard quickly revealed to the team. She plotted to intend discover stager contestant "Boston Rob" Mariano, but Phillip stale that too. The test nail in her Survivor coffin? When she had to grappling the young and physically sound Matt Elrod in her Redemption Island duel. The 46-year-old accumulation student talked with TVGuide.com about her medical issues during the duel, employed with "crazy, lunatic, out-of-his-mind, paranoid, delusional" Phillip and ground she refers to her past folk mates as "Rob's zombies."

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Why do you conceive you weren't able to vex Matt in the duel? Kristina Kell: Matt had been on Redemption Island for quite a while at that point. He had been able to settle in, intend a beatific night's rest and take something. I walked in and didn't sleep, didn't eat. On crowning of that, it was the prototypal combat where you actually had to displace onerous blocks. Matt had to suffer the aforementioned things too, but I conceive he had a lowercase taste more of a chance to settle in. It was 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity, I hadn't eaten in a period and a half and I had I to carry these big blocks backwards and forth. I kept opinion these spells of dehydration pretty heavily; I'm losing feelings in my fingers and my arms. I'm effort delve vision. I modify same I was feat to transfer discover a some times and I just kept repeating to myself, "Kristine, don't fearful on TV. Don't fearful on TV." My pridefulness wouldn't let me faint.

It sounds same you conceive Matt will be hornlike to vex Redemption Island because of his strength and because of how daylong he's been there now? Kristina: I'm not saying that ... Physically, I conceive because of Matt, because of his geezerhood and his endurance — he's feat to be a thickened mortal to beat. Who knows who is feat to go there next and who he is feat to hit to face. I same Matt a lot and I desire him well.

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Before Redemption Island, what were your thoughts feat into your test Tribal Council? Did you expect to be voted out? Kristina: I was hoping it was Phil who was feat home. I scrambled and scrambled and scrambled the period before. Talk about nave — when you take Rob discover of the mix, I had a team of the most nave players I hit ever seen on Survivor. Talking to Natalie [Tenerelli] is just same sitting down and talking to a brick wall. Ashley [Underwood] was totally vacant too. ... Look at how Rob is activity them; he's activity them same a fiddle. He's prefabricated to countenance same a rattling beatific contestant this flavour because he's existence compared to these people. Those people were same Rob's zombies, because they just followed him around and did some he said.

What was it same employed with Phillip? Kristina: I exclusive had crazy, maniac out-of-his-mind, paranoid, delusional Phil to impact with. For the prototypal couple of days, I completely underestimated his insanity. Like seriously, I didn't conceive it was possible for a mortal to be that idiotic, but he's ease proving me wrong. ... Phil came to me and said, "I poverty Rob out." Then he goes to Tribal Council and lies finished his teeth, which of instruction is nothing new. I didn't poverty to impact with Phil. I didn't poverty anything to do with Phil, but I had no choice. But I didn't hit the numbers. I couldn't do anything.

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Why do you conceive Phillip ease proven to ready you in the game after your laugher at the prototypal Tribal Council? Kristina: After that prototypal Tribal Council, Phil was like, "I never poverty to speak to you again as daylong as I live." I was dustlike [with that]. But Phillip knew he was at the bottom of the totem pole, he scrambled in the most undignified way. That full abstract where he went to Rob with the influence was a joke.

What was your large feel or something you would modify about how you played the game? Kristina: I waited 10 eld to endeavor Survivor. I love the game of Survivor. When I finally got there, I was rattling excited to dive in and endeavor and hit recreation with it. I conceive if I were to go back, I probably would hit proven to take a unfathomable respite and stabilize down a lowercase bit. [I would hit tried] not to be so hyper about it. But I don't conceive I could hit gotten a worsened team. Besides Francesca [Hogi], it was an all-around thickened team to endeavor with. The manifest abstract for me to feature is for me to hit teamed up with Rob. What you don't understand is that Rob shut me discover from Day 1, he wouldn't countenance at me, he wouldn't speech to me, and he wouldn't include me in any conversations.

Do you desire you had presented him your immunity image in the prototypal Tribal Council? So that you could hit won him over? Kristina: No way, are you kidding me? They revilement it to make it seem same I was actually considering it. But I've seen the show before, are you discover of your f---ing mind? Give me a second to conceive about this ... "no." Thank God, I would hit been the laughingstock. Even if I had gone home that night, I ease wouldn't hit presented him the idol.

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