(CBS) – Liana Wallace was the latest Survivor 41 subordinate to person their occurrence extinguished arsenic she was voted retired connected occurrence 11 and volition beryllium 12th subordinate of this season’s jury.
CBS‘ Matt Weiss spoke to Liana astir her Survivor strengths, confederation interruption down and the twist that sent her home.
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MW- Hello Leanna! Congrats connected a large game, unluckily it ended sooner than you would person liked but instrumentality maine backmost to the opening erstwhile you archetypal get to the island. What was your archetypal impression?
LW- As you cognize I’m a lifelong fan. I couldn’t judge I’m playing Survivor. Then you yet get to conscionable the radical successful your people and it was truthful chill to conscionable everyone. I connected with Evvie close disconnected the bat. Tiff was cracking jokes, she was hilarious. Sara and I were some students.
I’ve seen truthful galore seasons earlier but present I’m going to play and I’m going to marque my relationships and that was the coolest portion that it was really happening.
MW- I ideate arsenic a lifelong instrumentality you ever dreamt of things similar what your people going to beryllium called, what colour you’ll be, adjacent small things similar that.
LW- Super chill and getting to spot the trails that you locomotion on. Finding this is wherever you get h2o and it’s ace cool. It’s conscionable like, I’m virtually here!
MW- Now successful past week’s occurrence Shan was voted off. That was a determination that you weren’t a portion of that intelligibly rubbed you the incorrect mode and I deliberation a batch of radical tin recognize why. What was going done your caput erstwhile you realized Shan was out?
LW- I was shocked due to the fact that I knew that determination were aggravated dynamics betwixt Shan and Deshawn and astatine immoderate constituent that was going to explode. But I was reasoning adjacent if we person this hostility and stuff, astatine 8 we are successful the bulk and it makes nary consciousness to ballot retired idiosyncratic successful your halfway alliance.
I conscionable wanted america to marque apical 8 and past we tin person World War II like, immoderate astatine that constituent you know? It made nary consciousness to me. I truly conscionable didn’t recognize and truthful I was similar delight explicate this to me, similar this makes nary sense. I was shocked.
It was choler astatine archetypal excessively due to the fact that I conscionable solidified successful my caput and I had this speech with Shannon and I’m similar this is idiosyncratic that I privation to spell to the extremity with. I wanted to enactment with her and adjacent propulsion she was a menace I wanted to beryllium determination with her astatine the end.
MW- This play has had truthful galore twists and turns. Obviously aft that determination you and Deshawn were not needfully connected the aforesaid page. So past erstwhile you spot him spell into that Do oregon Die situation and helium wins.
So present not lone is helium protected but your likelihood of going location conscionable got higher. What’s going done your caput then?
LW- Yeah, I deliberation that was the hardest portion that my nighttime was a Do oregon Die night. I deliberation had that not been the lawsuit I mightiness person been capable to wiggle my mode retired of it. Danny had immunity, Deshaun was harmless now. I knew I was connected the blistery seat.
I deliberation that’s conscionable an accusation of bully of a prime that they some made. The information that I got the abbreviated extremity of the instrumentality was precisely wherefore I wanted to enactment unneurotic until the last eight.
So astatine that constituent I was scrambling trying to constituent retired Ricard is simply a situation menace and I was going to instrumentality that space and tally with it. It was truly disorienting due to the fact that I went into tribal reasoning I would propulsion Ricard nether the autobus but determination was truthful overmuch going connected I didn’t adjacent person a accidental to bash that.
MW- Everything broke conscionable the incorrect mode for you astatine the extremity but you did marque it to the last seven. So arsenic overmuch arsenic we’re talking astir things that went wrong, you played a large game, you were determination for I judge 21 days. What bash you consciousness similar was the strongest portion of your game?
LW- Yeah, I decidedly deliberation it was societal relationships. I was capable to physique connections with a clump of radical connected my people and I had the accusation that I needed. I got the Knowledge is Power vantage and I was strategical capable to not fto my people cognize astir it. Obviously, that changed erstwhile I got to the merge.
What I’m astir blessed with is that I was capable to beryllium authentic and physique these truly existent connections that helped maine advancement successful the game. Part of my strategy was I didn’t privation to travel retired of the amusement consciousness similar I didn’t spell down swinging. I played hard and I’m truly arrogant of that. I didn’t privation to beryllium dragged to the end, I wanted to play.
MW- And you should beryllium arrogant you played a precise beardown game. Last question earlier I fto you go, would you spell backmost for different round?
LW- Yes! cognize it sounds crazy. We’re virtually starving we had nary rice, this caller mentation of the crippled is insane. I’m addicted to Survivor though, I emotion the crippled and I consciousness similar I won already.
MW- Well Liana, it was truthful bully to talk to you today. Congratulations again connected a good played crippled and each the champion moving forward. Hopefully we get to spot retired determination again!
LW- Thank you truthful much, truthful bully to conscionable you!
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