Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Challenge: All Stars 4finale.
Cara came in second place, Steve came in third, and Ace Amerson was eliminated in fourth place.
“I feel like I won,” Cara Maria tellsEntertainment Weekly.
Cara Maria Sorbello in “The Challenge: All Stars”.Jonne Roriz/Paramount+
“And that win came with a little bit of an asterisk.
But a win’s a win.
Her check cashes, mine doesn’t but I mean, let’s be real.”
“The Challenge: All Stars,” episode 12, season 4.Jonne Roriz/Paramount+
Jonne Roriz/Paramount+
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Those stars really played a massive role in how this final ended.
How do you feel about what the stars meant and how it all played out?
Nobody was going to give me their star.
“The Challenge: All Stars,” episode 12, season 4.Jonne Roriz/Paramount+
I’ll give this to Leroy so he’s got a shot.
But those stars played a huge factor.
I won because I freaking won."
Cara Maria Sorbello in “The Challenge: All Stars,” episode 12, season 4.Jonne Roriz/Paramount+
So I took it as a challenge.
Maybe these stars are just like a 30-second advantage.
But it was skip an entire checkpoint.
She saved so much time skipping all those puzzles.
I did everything I could.
So it is what it is.
She beat me by the rules of the game.
But if those stars were not there, I would’ve beaten her.
I know that for a fact.
There’s only so much I can do.
There’s only so much you could do with physics, but can I outrun her?
Can she outswim me?
Is she good at weird stuff?
I don’t know what the hell I’m good at, but you know what I mean?
I’ll figure it out.
But that debate will never be settled.
It’s like who’s better, Johnny or CT?
Who’s the GOAT, is it Johnny?
You don’t know.
We can leave that one up for debate.
But for this one, she won.
So what did you think of her not taking Kam’s spot?
First of all, I didn’t know she was even trying to get rid of me like that.
I didn’t know the animosity behind my back.
She lives to see me embarrassed or beneath her.
But when she saw that it was something separate, she chose not to go down.
And she’s using the excuse that Nicole told her not to.
Do you think anybody can tell Laurel what to do?
If Laurel wanted to go down, she was going to go down.
I got my star back.
I faced her in the final.
Actually, if I took her out in that elimination, that would’ve been better.
But you never know what’s going to happen.
And the only thing you do know is Laurel will always be manipulative and toxic.
So trust her never.
Nothing she says, nothing she does, never trust.
Her obsession with me knows no bounds.
So much of this season revolved around the drama between you two.
Is that really how that went down or was it edited differently?
It’s different days.
I came in, Laurel was kind of nice to me, Nicole was kind of nice to me.
Leave me out this s—."
They did not want anything to do with each other.
And when they didn’t want anything to do with each other, they were nice to me.
She told me things about Nicole that made me hate Nicole.
I felt in that moment I was being protective and defensive of my friend.
I need to stand up for her.
And the way Nicole ran around the house was very uncomfortable.
Is she using Laurel?
She’s messing with Laurel’s head.
I think she had a relationship.
I didn’t know what was going on with Nicole.
Everybody who was talking to Nicole hated Laurel.
I hated Nicole, because I was protecting Laurel.
We were each hearing different sides.
I had so many talks with her.
I was like, “Nicole, you’re turning Laurel into somebody I don’t even know.
Where’s the competitor?
Where’s the animal?
And I was right.
And maybe I could have gone about things, in the way I exploded a little bit, better.
But I spoke facts, and in the end, I wasn’t wrong.
They were the ones that said, “Don’t get into my relationship.”
You guys put me here.
You expect me not to say something?
What do you think of her argument?
Why would I not give it to her?
Why would I not ride with Kam all the way to the very end?
Whatever way I could help Kam or Leroy out, I was going to do.
And holding onto the star is the name of the game.
If you’re going to hate somebody for that …
I never held onto my star in a way that was detrimental to her in the beginning.
I think the reason she was coming with seems like gaslighting, personally.
I told her well ahead of time with the Ayanna thing that I can’t say Rachel’s name.
And she goes, “Okay, I respect that.
Thank you for letting me know.”
After that, I just realized that I was disposable.
She ran the entire house.
I respected her for her gameplay.
I don’t say bad things about them.
I love them and their family and I will never say a bad word about them.
It’s just sad.
I still don’t get it, but I wish them the best.
What has surprised you the most now that you’ve seen the entire season?
F—ing mean is the word.
Dude, I had no idea, that level of animosity?
I was literally just chilling and trying to survive.
You’ve really got to look out.
I’m like, “No!
Not Kam, not Jasmine, not Brandon.
It just sounds like jealousy and projection, to be honest.
I am not one to say girls are jealous, but they’re f—ing jealous.
What else can I say?
They want me to be gone so they could get more light on them.
But it don’t work like that because I don’t die.
And that’s what I did.
And at the end, they only made me stronger.
But I’m sad.
There’s just a massive amount of projection and jealousy coming from these women.
And they did that.
So thank you, because this was a great season for me because of it.
I’m glad they gave me a hard road.
[Pauses] Except for Laurel.
Couldn’t kill that one.
Because I didn’t know!
But the lengths that they went, it’s insane.
