Carolina Eastwood was the first castaway eliminated from Survivor: Tocatins last week after rubbing her tribemates the wrong way. After the episode aired Thursday, the 26 year old bartender talked about her short stay on the show.

How were you cast for the show?

Carolina: I was recruited. I thought it was a joke at first, I thought it was really funny, and I started laughing, (unintelligible) and I didn’t believe it. Then the more that it was in my face and they were like “No, this isn’t a joke, this is for real,” I was like “Okay, okay, I need [something different] in my life, I need to get on it and jump on it, and I did.

And I’m gonna tell you man… Survivor was the best thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. I have no regrets, even thought I was the first voted out I have no regrets. I don’t take anything back and it was the best gift I was ever given.

[Given the extremely hot conditions,] do you think not having as much water or food ended up playing any role in why your tribe lost the challenge on Day 3?

Carolina: (Pauses) No. I mean, what you don’t see is we were five minutes ahead of Timbira. What you don’t see is we were doing the puzzle when they were still doing the stairs. We had a good five-minute lead on them and [Sydney Wheeler] and Spencer just couldn’t get the hang of that maze. When Timbira got up they killed it! I mean, [Erinn Lobdell] and [Brendan Synnott] went so fast on that maze. But yeah, we had a five-minute lead on them, so yeah it definitely affected us, it knocked the wind out of my sails.

What you don’t see either is I was one of the first girls to hit the water [in the challenge]. Like, they do a shot of everyone running from above, so you can see JT’s in the water and I’m right behind him. When you hear [Survivor host Jeff Probst] saying “Carolina’s falling behind” what you don’t see is Sydney actually fell and I picked her up, and Sydney and I held hands walking out of the water.

But I think it really didn’t affect our tribe that much because we were in the lead by five minutes and we lost it at the maze.

Kinda going off of that, do you think it was odd that neither Sydney or Spencer’s names came up as a potential vote [target] after you guys lost that challenge because you had that lead [and they blew it?]

Carolina: Um, (Pauses) Looking back on it, yeah it was odd, it was very odd. Spencer should’ve been the one to go home, I mean he complained about not having an iPod! Hi, you’re on Survivor, you’re not gonna have a iPod.

But yeah it was a little odd, but it’s shoulda, coulda, woulda but didn’t. Unfortunately looking back on it we could’ve done so many things different but that’s not how it happened.

That’s alright. Based on last night’s show, your focus seemed to be more on getting your tribe’s shelter situation straightened out.� Can you talk a little bit about that?

Carolina: Yeah! Okay first of all, did you see what I was wearing?! I did not have a say in that little outfit, I did not wanna wear the red dress, I don’t care if I get in trouble for saying that, I was not happy about that.

I was freezing cold at night. Like, none of us were sleeping because we were sleeping out on the beach, we slept on [palm leaves] the next, right out in the open with nothing covering us, and in my mind I’m going “Okay we need to stay out of the heat, we need to be in the shade, and we need to stay out of the cold. So if we actually build shelter, after [that] we can relax. So why don’t we stop dilly-dallying around, get the shelter built, get the stuff built so we can relax, so we can be prepared for our challenges. Let’s not just sit around and do nothing and then complain [when it's only half-way done].

Someone from another interview said “Oh, but you weren’t helping with the shelter.” Actually what you don’t see is [Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George] and I built the roof. The boys built the outer structure and we put the palm leaves on the roof. I was out there for two hours tying palms on and trying to figure things out. I mean, shelter is so important in the game of Survivor. You’re an idiot to think that you don’t need shelter in this game.

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