by Troy Rogers
In a double Tribal Council last week on Survivor:
Heroes vs. Villains, Candice Woodcock of the Heroes
and Danielle DiLorenzo of the Villains both had
their Survivor torches extinguished due to the
gameplay of Russell Hantz.
After flipping to the Survivor Villains a week earlier, Candice found herself on the wrong side of Karma when the dwindling Heroes made a move to keep their Survivor hopes alive in an attempt to stay one step ahead of Russell. Despite remaining loyal to her Villains, Danielle had the Survivor tables turned on her when Russell openly questioned her loyalty at Tribal Council, which exposed Danielle's gameplay and left her vulnerable to the votes.
To double back on the latest Survivor elimination, we caught up with Candice and Danielle to find out what went wrong, why Candice flipped to the Villains, the reason for Danielle's emotional Tribal Council, and what both Candice and Danielle think of Russell Hantz.
THE DEADBOLT: Candice, what was the one thing that made you decide to flip?
CANDICE WOODCOCK: It wasn't one thing it was a lot of things. You know, the whole time the heroes didn't really make me feel like I was a part of their team. And if they really wanted to play with me, they never really cared about my opinion and they really didn't lock me in.
I caught Amanda lying to me, saying there was no clue to the immunity idol when she had wrestled Danielle for it. I was supposed to trust her and I caught her in a lie and Sandra had been flipping back and forth telling me that she was not going to vote with the heroes and then she was.
So
all of those things just kind of came together
in a perfect storm to freak me out. Watching
the episodes, seeing how set Sandra was on voting
with us, it was definitely a mistake on my part
and I definitely sealed my fate.
THE DEADBOLT: Are you drawn to Parvati for some reason, because you also teamed up with her on Cook Islands, right?
CANDICE: That's an odd way to put it, but I think she's a nice girl and a smart girl and strong and I think those are qualities I look for in friends. So, sure [laughs].
THE DEADBOLT: If karma didn't come back around and vote you out, how did you see the rest of the game playing out for you?
CANDICE: I wanted to get Parvati and Russell apart. Russell initially came to me and said he wanted to get rid of Parvati and wanted me to help him. I didn't trust anything that Russell said, but I wanted to use that information and tell Parvati that Russell was gunning for her and get rid of him.
THE DEADBOLT: Danielle, we saw you completely break down at Tribal council. What happened?
DANIELLE
DILORENZO: Well, I let my emotions and my
heart get involved in the game and unfortunately
I got voted off. I don't know. It was a combination
of just that whole day was just so stressful
for me and I've been on the island for thirty
something days and Russell was just really getting
to me. That whole day, when he was trying to
turn me and Parvati against each other, really,
really affected me, clearly.
I was hurt. I was hurt and he was trying to make me look like I was being disloyal to her. That is the last thing I wanted her to feel because I wanted because I wanted to go all of the way and play this game with her and go all of the way to the end with her. I really liked her and we had a friendship and I was just really disappointed. Russell said he was doing that and I just let my emotions get to me and I broke down.
THE DEADBOLT: What were you thinking when Amanda attacked you for that hidden immunity clue?
DANIELLE: I was shocked and shaking. At that point I was like, "Oh my goodness, this game is getting really ugly really fast. This is not something I want to be apart of anymore." I started to feel like this is scary, this is crazy. People are turning psychotic. And this demon came out. She had this look in her eye when she took it away from me. It was underneath me in my possession and how dare she do that.
I
get it, we're playing a game for a million dollars,
but that was just ruthless and vicious and I
was taken aback by it and offended and that
was my reaction to get it back. I convinced
her to give it back to me, thank God, and I
couldn't believe she did.
THE DEADBOLT: Now that you're away from the game, what are your thoughts on Russell?
CANDICE: [laughs] Creepy.
DANIELLE: He's psychotic, creepy. It makes me feel like, "Gosh, is he like this in real life, because I kind of find it hard to believe that this is an act for him?" I feel like this is very close to his way in the real word of being with and interacting with people. He's just ruthless and has no shame and that's his gameplay.
Hat's off to him if that's the way he wants to play the game. That's cool, play the game like that, but that's not how I would represented myself . I couldn't play the game like that, respect is big for me.
