The experience can also be damaging to their mental health (perThe Wrap).
For most participants, a single time competing on the show is enough.
Controversy erupted the day after Sandra’s win.
“It’s either an insider from CBS or a friend or neighbor of Sandra’s.
I would lean toward the former because it seems to be a regular pattern with ‘Survivor.'”
“I wanted the money, whatever little bit I was getting,” she said.
“I didn’t want to screw that up.
I suffered too much out there.
I lost 22 pounds.”
“Everything else is the same.
I still stop in stores like Walmart and stuff like that, Kmart.
Sandra also debunked the myth that physical prowess is the key to winning on the reality series.
I won the show, and I don’t do nothing,” she said.
Whatever her strategy was, it clearly worked.
“I’ve been watching Survivor since the first season, you know?
“Yeah, I’m weak, but being weak actually freaking works!
I am the Queen of Survivor!
It featured 19 other returning “castaways,” who quickly identified the repeat winner as a threat.
But I’m really happy about my game.
I really played a good game, so I’m not upset at all.”
Despite her loss, Sandra defended her Queen of Survivor nickname.
“I’ll always be the queen,” she toldUs Weekly.
Just because you won down the road after two tries, three tries, that doesn’t mean anything.
I live a very simple life.
I’m not a wasteful person.
I bought my house.
Everyone has a car.
I work every day, Monday through Friday.
I didn’t let this money go to my head, and I’m not broke just yet!”
“It’s something we’ve never done.
“They are basically producing and hosting that moment out there on their own.”
For 39 days, Sandra and Rob doled out advice (sometimes conflicting advice) to the players.
And they roughed it just like the players, building their own shelter and catching their own food.
If we’re gonna talk the talk, then we have to walk the walk.
The players have to see us living the way they’re living.”
But that “Survivor” experience was exhausting for Sandra, even without the competition aspect.
“So would I play again?
I’m going to say for right now no.”
She lasted 16 days before becoming the seventh person voted out.
“It would have just been torture for me.
I just would have sat there for 23 days being miserable.
And I was done with Fiji,” she toldEntertainment Weekly.
She told Xfinity TV, “I went back to work, my regular life.
I’ve been at the same law firm for the last seven years.
That hasn’t changed.”
“After this, I’m going to definitely retire,” she toldEntertainment Weekly.
No dogs, no me, no kids."
“I have a secret weapon: my baby girl, Nina.
Y’all better look out, because I taught her well.”
But Alanna “Nina” Twine was one of the players who helped eliminate the Queen of Survivor.
