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“Yeah, it was Aneesa,” Olivia says.
“Me and Aneesa were really close afterRide or Dies.
Olivia Kaiser on ‘The Challenge’.Paramount/MTV
I was like, ‘Why?
She’s the best, I love her.’
That was not the truth.”
Olivia still doesn’t understand why Aneesa would say those things to Nurys' brother.
“I don’t know why Aneesa randomly turned on me,” she says.
“She messaged me a week before the show and we were just fine.
As for why Aneesa was even talking to Nurys' brother in the first place?
It’s unfortunate that happened, but is what it is.”
OLIVIA KAISER:At this point in the game, honestly I was so checked out.
I was like, “Whatever, screw the final.”
It was more just of a split-second decision of how to stay in it.
Moriah, we’re not friends we’re just existing.
And then Nurys and me, she’s hot and cold with how she feels about me.
She’ll forgive me and then she won’t.
Right now, she has said that she’s never going to forgive me.
I’m going to respect that and just keep moving forward in my life.
I feel bad and I regret my decision.
I don’t know how many more times I can say that to her to make her be okay.
I think it’s just going to take time.
She doesn’t have to trust me again.
But who am I to say how someone should feel or how someone should forgive someone?
Does it stem from the call with her family or what she’s seeing in the episodes?
Yeah, I think it’s everything.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at how we got on after that.
It was more of a message to the public on how I’m not a backstabbing friend.
But I think she took that as devaluing our friendship and not taking ownership [of my actions].
I completely disagree, but again, who am I to say how someone should feel?
So I think was the last trigger on her.
I’m already down.
She’s a queen in the castle right now spitting on me.
I don’t know what else I can do.
What has it been like for you watching this season and especially seeing that phone call with her family?
It’s hard because I don’t really have any ground to stand on right now.
At the same time, it hurts me that she didn’t come immediately to me.
It makes me think that she did believe it, whether she is denying she believed it or not.
If someone said that to me, I would run up to my friend immediately and say something.
I could say a lot of things, but I just prefer to apologize and move forward.
There’s only so much one person can take though…
I want to be defensive, but I’m trying my best not to be.
But I’m feeling really personally attacked.
I made a horrible decision, which was a game decision.
That’s not cool and it’s not fair.
And I’m starting to get pissed.
But I will say, I’ve been at the top.
I’ve been looked at and idolized, and I like to think that I was humble in that.
That’s just something to remember: Always stay humble and what goes around comes around.
Clearly, it did for me.
But this is a game.
It’s hard to separate the game and personal connections.
And you know what?
I’ve learned the biggest lesson, and now I know how to move accordingly next time.
And then I was just like, “Honestly, no.”
What they don’t show was me and Michele’s friendship was equivalent to me and Nurys'.
So no, I would not have picked Nurys.
It does suck because they cut out me trying to switch places [with Nurys].
That wasn’t what it was, so it’s really frustrating.
Unfortunately, I fell in that perfect category all season because it comes down to insecurity.
If you could go back and change anything about this season, what would it be?
[Things I would] change?
But questioning Horacio, I don’t regret that because that was fair of me.
I didn’t know what my friendship with Horacio was.
We didn’t have this nine-year best friendship.
I was still getting to know him as a human being.
I should’ve just gone into that elimination.
The Challenge: Battle for a New Championairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
