By John Powell – GlobalTV.com

Everything certainly didn’t come up Roses for Bianca. Things were going so well for her at the Lagi beach but then circumstances beyond her control such as instead of Vula being permitted to just fade into extinction like they would have on an Old School Survivor season, all of the tribes were switched around and Bianca found herself having to play the middle just to survive since she lost her vote during an ill-fated journey. Despite it all, Bianca is grateful for her experience on the island.

John Powell: You got to sit back and watch everything last night. How are you feeling this morning about your emotional exit?

Bianca Roses: It’s so many emotions. I’m still devastated. I don’t want to be a sore loser but I’m still absolutely gutted by what went down. But, I’m a positive person. I like to look on the bright side. I got to play Survivor! It’s the best thing I get to say! So, I’m here to tell the tale, and I’m grateful for it.

John Powell: As I always say, no matter when somebody goes out, they beat out all those other people and actually got to live out their dream, no matter how long or short it was. That’s something to be really thankful for.

What were you feeling when the final vote came through? Were you more confused, upset, or was it a wide range of emotions? It was one of the most emotional exits we’ve seen in quite some time.

Bianca Roses: Oh, yeah. I was very confused. It was was me totally exposed, totally raw. It was the little girl who had been watching Survivor since she was eight, just having her dreams crushed that night. So it was…it was everything. It was heartbreak. It was despair. It was confusion. It was regret. It was gratitude.

What you didn’t see, John, was me leaving and absolutely having the grossest, gushing bloody nose, because sometimes when I cry, it triggers a nosebleed. I’m just bleeding out like crazy. I went down in a hot mess. (laughs)

John Powell: Sometimes there is no better way to go out. Tell us why you told Cedrek that you didn’t have a vote.

Bianca Roses: It came down to the one thing you say you’re not going to do when you play Survivor but then you realize you do have to do it when you’re out there to build some trust. It really was me trying to just build a little bit of trust with one person, after discovering my number one is gone, after realizing I’m playing these two sides pretty well, right? If we do go to the deadlock I’m going to be exposed. We’re going to come back to camp. I’m going to have lied to everyone and it was just me trying to play the long game a little bit and trying to cement some longevity in the game and didn’t work out.

John Powell: We only got to see some of it so let us know how you played the middle at camp?

Bianca Roses: John, it was so fun! It was so much fun! I had a golden position. I felt alive! I’ve got these two. I’ve got these two. Let’s do this!

I hated that journey but also it gave me that opportunity to play and it was really fun! There was a lot the viewers didn’t see. There was moments with Mitch and Chrissy that made me really want to work with them on a heart and personal level but I was thinking there’s no way you can bring more Siva numbers to the merge when this is kind of looking like a Siva, Vula game. There was a lot not shown with me and Cedrek really forging a bond and connecting, lot of personal conversations.

Justin went home because he didn’t tell Cedrek that he didn’t have a vote. That happened and I fought that. Sai and Cedric both telling me that Cedrek voted for Sai multiple times, There was definitely a lot not shown that went into into my decision-making process.

John Powell: If you had to pick between the pairs who were you going to side with?

Bianca Roses: The honest answer is if I could have felt like Cedrek and Sai would work together, I would pick them because I have Sai telling me she doesn’t even want to work with Cedrek and him telling me he voted for her. I didn’t think it was that far-fetched to get Cedrek to vote for Sai even though, apparently, it was the hardest thing in the world. I don’t know what he was doing or what game he’s playing but I think I would have gone with them only because I didn’t want to bring more of a threat to the merge with more of of Civa.

John Powell: I spoke to Thomas last week and he said this about you: “I do think that there’s an element to how f—–g smart Bianca is and how great she is…You don’t see as much of her but she had information that she would bring me. She was so active and just brilliant and wonderful out there.” How does that make you feel?

Bianca Roses: What do I think about those comments? I literally, my dad was: We love Thomas! My mom is: “I’m making him chicken cutlets for the rest of his life!”. I adore that man. I appreciate him saying that because I do feel like because Lagi wasn’t going to tribal a lot of my strategic gameplay was not shown and one really good example of that is when we see Star telling Thomas and I that she had the Beware Advantage. That is actually after Star told me alone because I had been working her and really trying to get her on my side. So, she told me, I run and tell Thomas. That’s just one example. You don’t see a lot of the strategy that was taking place because we weren’t going to tribal council.

John Powell: Did you ever get any explanation or reasoning about why Chrissy and Cedrek voted for you?

Bianca Roses: No, I’m so confused! I literally am so confused! I told Cedrek I didn’t have a vote and this was moments before we went to tribal. I strategically made that decision to wait because I didn’t want to give him the chance to talk to anyone. I think because I did it so late though I spooked him and really freaked him out. He didn’t talk to anyone. I watched that man like a hawk, like a crazy person, like a paranoid Survivor player. I made sure he didn’t talk to anyone so Chrissy didn’t know that I didn’t have a vote.

John Powell: What really surprised you about what was going on behind your back?

Bianca Roses: That’s a good question. What was I not aware of? Even with Thomas not telling me that he had the advantage, for example, I still had a gut feeling he had something because he came back from the journey and didn’t tell me bad news. I assumed that he had something…There were a lot of things that I’m obviously discovered watching back but I did actually have a really good gut feeling about those things that I didn’t 100 percent know.

John Powell: If one of the three tribes in the modern era does poorly the producers shuffle the tribes around instead of letting those tribes just fizzle out like they did in the Old School seasons. That switch-up obviously hurt your game. What is your feeling about it all?

Bianca Roses: It’s easy to sit here and be like if we not had the swap Thomas and I would have been good. It is easy to say that but at the same time I admire the evolution of Survivor. We remember Stephenie LaGrossa being the last person on her tribe and tribes fizzling out. Like I do appreciate, as a fan and a viewer, that there are these curve balls that keep it fresh and keep it interesting and also as a player it give us the opportunity to be put up against challenge, after challenge, after challenge. I was in a really fun situation because of that swap. It sucked that I didn’t have a vote but that was so fun! I felt alive playing the middle so that swap didn’t work out for me but it gave me so many opportunities as a player and a fan to have fun with it still.

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