“I Was In Shock” – An Interview with Survivor Winner Sandra

RNO: There are some people who have said that your lie about the fish, letting Christa take the heat, and then your idea of hiding the tribe's tools later when you thought you were going were worse than Jon's lie about his grandmother. What do you have to say in response to that?

Sandra: I never expected Christa to take the blame for the fish; that was a surprise. And seeing the episode that followed where she went with Burton and asked if I could get voted off before her was a little shocking so I feel I don't need to apologize. Besides, Christa didn't go home because of the fish, it was because she proved how strong she was in the sandbag challenge and she was a physical threat to those remaining. I did get to hide some of the tribe’s things, I was like if they’re gonna vote me off then I'm gonna make their lives miserable. That is in no way worse then Jon's grandma lie.

RNO: Who would you have taken to the finals if you were wearing immunity, and why?

Sandra: Jon, because he's the scum of the earth and I felt that I had a better chance of winning against him rather than Lill. WHO KNOWS!

RNO: Did you honestly think that Lill would win in the Final 2 because she was nice, or was that all a ploy?

Sandra: I believed others liked her better than me, I never had any indication to think otherwise; that's why I only made plans for the $100,000 and I was in shock. How ironic that in a previous episode Jeff asked me who would I hate to go up against and I said lill ‘cause everybody loves her or likes her, something like that.

RNO: Why didn't you use the Outcast factor more in final arguments?

Sandra: It didn't come to mind, looking at it now, I should have.

RNO: It has been said by some that there was an awful lot of luck on your side – you made some mistakes that didn't end up hurting you and then Lill brought you along instead of Jon, just to name a couple things. What do you have to say about the role of luck in winning?

Sandra: Luck, I feel, was 95% responsible for me winning, because so many thing happened that I did out of anger and nothing ever came back to bite me, so I wouldn't have changed a thing looking back on it now.

RNO: What did the editing not show us about Sandra that you would like viewers to know?

Sandra: I think the editing was great, no complaints, I just wish they had showed why some folks were voted off, the reasons behind their evictions.

David Bloomberg is the Editor of RealityNewsOnline and can be reached at RNO@pobox.com. Thanks to the other writers of RNO for question suggestions.

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