Michelle Shubert had some game when it came to strategy onSurvivor: Millennials vs. Gen X.
She paid the price for that mistake when a joint coalition of Millennials and Gen Xers took her out.
How does she feel about her ouster?
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So what happened?
Did you get too comfortable?
MICHELLE SHUBERT:No, not exactly.
I was not comfortable at all during that vote.
Tell me who to vote.
Im sitting back for a vote or two because I heard people were thinking I was strategizing too hard.
And I felt uncomfortable the whole time about it.
I dont like trusting other peoples intuitions rather than my own.
We saw you say getting rid of Adam was a personal move as opposed to a strategic one.
Who didyouwant to target?
It was going to be a man, because not enough men had left yet.
It was going to be a Gen Xer, because we needed to keep numbers.
And there were already Gen Xers on board with me.
Dont prove em right.
So I was like Okay, Ill sit back for a couple of votes.
And then I went dark with 90 percent of the people.
She must have changed their mind.
You mentioned you had Gen Xers on board.
Which Gen Xers did you think you had on board to get rid of Chris?
At that point, both Jessica and Ken were up for a Chris vote.
And you believed them.
Did Jay tell you he had a hidden immunity idol?
I honestly cannot remember.
Part of me says yes, and part of me says no.
To be honest, my brain was so sleep-deprived at that point, I was not thinking clearly.
So Im not sure.
But there was a time at Tribal Council that I felt it was me that was the target.
It was by something Chris said, actually.
What did he say?
He interrupted me and disagreed with whatever I was in the middle of saying.
But I also dont exactly remember.
I feel like he did.
You seemed to be closest to Jay and Taylor?
Were they in your final three had you made it to the end?
I honestly wasnt too worried about who I would go to the final three with.
I felt like at least until final four, Jay wouldnt vote against me.
And at that point I was going to have to decide whether or not to get rid of Jay.
What was your sense of what would have happened had Vanua lost another challenge before the merge?
I knew I would be gone.
Chris wouldnt look at me when he would talk.
He couldnt make eye contact.
Zeke, of course, didnt like me.
And Chris wouldnt look at me.
So I felt like this leper, this unclean citizen outside the gates.
And my strategy talk would not go anywhere with any of them.
So what did you make of that?
Was there any comfort in at least making the jury?
Yeah, there was.
There are certain landmarks youre thinking about during the game.
The first one isnt a big one, thats making it to the tribe swap.
That wasnt too much of a relief.
In fact, that was the worst day of my game, maybe.
So making it to the jury was one of the marks along the way.
If you could change one thing about your game, what would it be?
I would not have gone silent at the merge.
I would have kept talking.
Im going to find out whats going on.
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