The ousted player says she was a “salty bitch.”
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You looked pretty shocked.
Tell me what was going through your mind as you kept seeing your name pop up at Tribal Council.
Jem Hussain-Adams of ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
JEM HUSSAIN-ADAMS:I didn’t think for a second that would happen.
I thought I had a solid alliance.
And I was like, Why didn’t I?
Tim Spicer, Maria Shrime-Gonzalez, Charlie Davis, Moriah Gaynor, Ben Katzman, Jem Hussain-Adams, and Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
I didn’t see him say anything.
I was just enraged.
It was like a f— you to everybody else.
Tim Spicer, Ben Katzman, Moriah Gaynor, Charlie Davis, and Jem Hussain-Adams on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
I wish they had shown that because it was not like a normal Have fun.
I’m walking out and I was like: You’ve got to say something.
You’re going to look like a salty bitch on TV.
Jem Hussain-Adams on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
Then I was like, Have fun!
So you were pissed.
I was just livid.
Jem Hussain-Adams on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
Who were you pissed at?
Nobody in my family or anybody will ever have this opportunity.
Go in, don’t ruffle feathers.
The Siga tribe on ‘Survivor 46’.CBS
Look at people, look at the way they move."
They would just vote me out next Tribal.
And my intuition failed me, so I was upset at myself.
I think if you’re going to play, you’re just going to have to play.
Don’t wait until the merge to start playing, because then it’s an individual game.
How can you start from the beginning and have a strong game throughout?
I think a lot of people wait till the merge.
And so once it started showing, I was like: Okay, I have five weeks.
That’s a long time.
And then yesterday I was like: What the hell?
And that’s when it really hit and I was like: I don’t think I’m okay.
And I was like, I hope they show this.
But the story that I told was about my upbringing.
But it was more like: Don’t feel sorry for me, don’t pity me.
And that was one of the problems.
Are you surprised Maria used both her votes on you even though they already had the numbers?
I know who called me Jemila, I know who called me Jem.
and I know who called me Gem, like the gemstone.
It’s an honor to be blindsided, but guess what?
It is even a better honor to havetwovotes put on you before you even make it to the merge.
Tevin still has his vote.
So, I’m honored to have that
You said you felt so comfortable with your alliance.
Did you ever come close to telling Moriah or Maria about the beware advantage?
And if I go back today I would do the same thing.
My idol is my idol.
It’s on a need-to-know basis and they don’t need to know.
Because after that happened, I would’ve gotten voted out regardless.
It would’ve been like: Okay, she’s playing stuff like that.
Unfortunately for me, that didn’t work.
That wasn’t half of it.
I read some stuff about Jem has small math.
Okay, I didn’t go to college and I went to high school years ago.
I’m 32, okay.
I forgot what a perimeter was.
Let’s begin there.
When I was reading it, I tossed the pencil because I was wearing really tight stuff that day.
I was like: Okay, can’t have a pencil, toss it out.
So it was all mental math at that point.
And so I was like, “What is a perimeter?
I don’t even know.”
So I started with circumference and radius and then I was like, Perimeter, you add every side!
And that’s when I started running around like a crazy person measuring everything.
So I was already really scared and I had my machete.
I needed my machete to measure.
Nobody would care about it.
I want to vote with you.
I am just trying to get him to go away!
I need to find my idol.
I don’t have my vote.
So it was more like that instead of, Who do you want to vote?
Why do you think Maria and Charlie decided to side with the fellas instead of the ladies?
If I knew, I’d win a million dollars.
I’ll say that.
My tribe knew nothing about food.
They didn’t even know the smallest about coconuts.
I got them every food, anything.
We got papayas, wed cook ‘em.
We had gourmet papaya.
We’d literally cook it and put a little bit of sand for crunch in it.
They were fed and it’s all because of me: I provided all the food.
They often show just men being the providers of the tribes.
I was like, maybe they’ll show that.
But they didn’t.
So I was really sad that I trusted them.
I provided for them a lot of times.
I consoled them and made them feel warm and fuzzy and we shared very, very deep conversations.
As you know, I told them my story the night before I got voted out.
That’s the one thing that I couldn’t wrap my head around.
I think Charlie wanted to work with Ben from what it looked like, and he convinced Maria.
But yeah, I couldn’t tell you.
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Have you gotten your Siga tattoo yet?
I’m not getting that s—.
Not on this body.
I’m a loyal person.
You played a great game.
Let’s see who the people want to give the money to.
I don’t want people that are going to get dragged or drag me.
I want people that are playing, and I thought the four of us were going to play.
We’re going to make it to the merge.
But nope, that didn’t happen.
How long did you get to hold onto the immunity idol before production took it away from you?
They took it away immediately.
I was like, Am I going to get that back?
And they’re like, No.
I was like, Do you understand how many problems I went through to get that?
I literally looked like a crazy person on TV for that!
Oh, also the Tim conversation didn’t happen that day.
That happened when I had them digging.
So it wasn’t like, Oh, Jem is a crazy person.
At the end, everybody’s like, She’s too aggressive.
No, that happened days ago.
