“I’m Goofy and Funny” – RealityNewsOnline’s Exclusive Interview with Survivor: Gabon’s Kelly

Kelly has been a polarizing figure on this season of Survivor. Ace attacked her intelligence in her final Tribal Council; Jacquie did likewise when she talked to me a couple weeks ago; and Crystal wasn’t very happy with her either. As you’ll see, I asked Kelly about all of this and much more, and she gave some pretty blunt assessments back. Read on!

RealityNewsOnline: Hello, Kelly, and thanks for taking the time to talk to RealityNewsOnline! Starting at the beginning, what was your strategy coming into the game?

Kelly: My strategy coming in was something that was different – once I got into the game, it was completely out of whack. It was to make an alliance with somebody. And when I made an alliance with that person, that person would make an alliance with another person and I would make another alliance with somebody. Kind of like the onion alliance. I wanted to then grab somebody who’s kind of like an outcast but you could trust them.

RNO: You mentioned it got out of whack – how did your strategy change once the game was underway?

Kelly: Being the youngest one, I just sat there was watching everybody. They were all so into themselves, nobody had a sense of humor, they were all playing for a million dollars. The way everybody was handling themselves, I didn’t know what to do. I went with Paloma. I talked to Ace and he wanted to get into an alliance, but I saw through him, so I just laid low. It helped me out in the end.

RNO: How did it help you?

Kelly: After I switched, being the least valuable player, which was so stupid because I was physically a better athlete than Sugar and even Corinne. They [Fang] saw through that and picked me and knew I would align with them. That’s what helped me.

RNO: Once you got to Fang, you managed to convince GC, Ken, and Crystal to bring you into an alliance and vote out Jacquie, which was a good strategic move. But then those allies turned on you rather than making a follow-up strategic move and targeting Ace. What happened?

Kelly: The thing that happened, thank God I called them out on getting Jacquie out, because she was a dud with no personality. Crystal thought I called her weak and wouldn’t talk to me. Ken told me Ace said I called her weak. You’d think Crystal would have some teamwork and come up to me since I’m on your side I’m helping you guys, you guys are going to get picked off as soon as I leave. Ace was trying to save his own ass by lying and saying I called Crystal weak. He was scared.

RNO: On the show, you were not portrayed as being the sharpest knife in the drawer, and it was apparent that some of your tribemates felt that way as well, such as Ace with his comment at Tribal Council. What do you have to say to that?

Kelly: You know what, Ace is so fake. It’s really sad actually. He had to reinvent himself from Kota to Fang. He was a leader in Kota and laid low in Fang. Everybody was so uptight and nobody had a sense of humor. I don’t think before I speak and I’m goofy and funny. Ace couldn’t get out of his fakeness and played his own game the slimy way. Good luck getting anywhere.

RNO: So is that what we saw from you – that you sometimes don’t think before speaking and you’re goofy?

Kelly: It’s not that. I’m myself, I speak what’s on my mind. If it gets me in trouble, it gets me in trouble. Get a laugh, let’s have a good time. Ace was just trying to save his own ass, so he would do anything to make me feel stupid anytime. He’s condescending, he’s an arrogant @$$#ole!

RNO: One of your comments that got a lot of play was the one about how monkeys might have eaten GC. What would you like to tell us about that?

Kelly: That’s very funny. There goes Kelly, that’s me, I’m goofy, I’m funny. What I probably meant to say – and I think I did after that – was he probably got eaten by a gorilla. We go to Survivor school and they told us what to do if a monkey or a gorilla comes around. He was gone for 20 minutes and we couldn’t find him. I made a joke about it. I say silly things. I thought that was hilarious.

RNO: We saw several people debating whether to vote off you or Ace, but we didn’t really see you discussing the vote. What did you do that we didn’t see to try to ensure that you stuck around?

Kelly: The whole day, nobody would really talk to me besides Matty, Ken, and Ace. Ace would walk with me and pretend that I called Crystal weak, but we clearly saw him say Crystal was weak. We also saw him say she was playing GC and quitting.

It was really weird how it came about. I was talking with everybody and seeing how things were going. Crystal thought I called her weak and that was the reason. Ace told Ken that I wanted to get Ken off, but Ace was being a con artist. It was Ace, Sugar, Kelly, Ace, Sugar, Kelly – which one? And then it was me.

RNO: In your final words, you said if it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. Do you think there was anything you could have done to change things up so it wasn’t your time to go?

Kelly: I definitely think there were things I could have done. I really wish Crystal would have come to talk to me and not made an assumption. You’re a grown woman, you’re a huge girl, you think you can’t come up to this little blonde chick to save your own ass? I learned a lot from this experience, I learned about myself – a million dollars comes and goes; I’ll make my own money.