‘Special Forces’ Winners Hannah Brown & Carli Lloyd Feel ‘Proud’ To Be Final ‘Powerful Women’ Standing (Exclusive)

When it came down to it, Hannah Brown and Carli Lloyd proved they person what it takes to walk the pugnacious Special Forces enactment process. The fierce pistillate contestants tackled the brutal interrogation process and outlasted Danny Amendola and Dwight Howard. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test winners Hannah and Carli astir their reactions to making it done the end.

“It was specified a taxing past time of each the interrogation and torture,” Hannah said. “I’m saying torture, but it truly benignant of felt similar that. I was conscionable truly shocked that it was really implicit and that we had passed. I was besides conscionable truly proud. This was thing that was truthful retired of my element, and I conscionable went for it and tried my implicit best. To beryllium capable to execute that was thing that benignant of amazed me. I was truly conscionable honored to beryllium besides lasting determination with Carli.”

Hannah Brown and Carli Lloyd during the last interrogation. (FOX)

Carli added, “The last 24 hours were implicit torture. I don’t adjacent cognize the spot that I went to, but I went to a heavy acheronian spot and conscionable tried to deliberation of blessed thoughts knowing that I was astir astatine the decorativeness line. But I conscionable kept telling myself I conscionable didn’t privation to quit. That was my main goal. I couldn’t bring myself to quit. Whatever I had to bash to get done it, I was going to bash so. It was highly rewarding, and I felt incredibly arrogant and conscionable pushed my limits to a intelligence capableness that I truly didn’t cognize I had successful me. I deliberation it was beauteous badass that Hannah and I were the 2 that are victorious and made it through.”

The Bachelorette alum and the Olympic shot prima endured military-grade interrogation. They had to look interrogation specialists screaming astatine them, portion besides being subjected to dreadful sounds and enactment into stressed positions with nary sleep.

“The interrogation was evidently ace unpleasant. It’s ne'er amusive to person radical yelling successful your look and trying to get successful your head,” Hannah admitted. “I’m funny to spot what Carli says, but for me, it was truly the having to endure listening to truly horrible sounds and being successful stressed positions, and not getting immoderate sleep. That was truly really hard for me. That was astir apt the lone clip that I was like, okay, I don’t cognize however overmuch longer I tin bash this. But conscionable similar Carly said, I couldn’t quit. I couldn’t bring myself to beryllium the 1 to pat out. That was benignant of my mindset the full time. They’re going to person to footwear maine out. I’m going to support going. But those 9, 10, I don’t cognize however galore hours of conscionable being truthful uncomfortable and conscionable proceeding these horrible sounds was really, truly hard for maine to support going.”

Hannah Brown during interrogation. (FOX)

For Carli, the stressful positions were “really tough” for her pursuing her genu injury. “I didn’t truly person bully flexibility, and my genu was inactive beauteous swollen. That was challenging. You don’t cognize however you’re going to respond successful those situations,” she noted.

Hannah, Carli, Danny, and Dwight had to memorize a screen communicative beforehand and effort to not stroke their screen with the interrogation specialists, who tried everything they could to interruption the recruits. “It was decidedly a tiny heavy dive into a real-life interrogation situation,” Carli pointed out. “I would accidental I would ne'er astir apt ever privation to spell done that. That was astir apt my slightest favourite thing.”

Throughout the full Special Forces journey, the recruits were incredibly supportive of each other. They encouraged each different and helped retired erstwhile they could. While Hannah and Carli emerged victorious, their chap last recruits did not. Danny tapped retired during interrogation, and Dwight was removed.

“I was shocked. I truly was shocked,” Hannah said astir Danny and Dwight not being determination astatine the end. “I genuinely wanted america each to beryllium determination astatine the extremity and truly believed that we each could. But I besides was arsenic arsenic blessed to spot that it was maine and Carli that did marque it to the end. I deliberation it’s truly chill for different young women to spot 2 beardown women being the past to benignant of past this brainsick experience. We each became truly adjacent and encouraged each different on the mode due to the fact that we’re each going done these truly hard moments and you truly bond, truthful I was shocked. We besides don’t cognize what made them pat out. We’re inactive benignant of successful the acheronian arsenic to precisely what happened. But arsenic I said, I was ace honored that it was maine and Carli astatine the end.”

Carli told HollywoodLife that the last 4 recruits each “had the volition of, alright, we’re going to bash this. We’re going to travel retired crossed that decorativeness enactment and implicit this. I don’t adjacent cognize what happened with Danny and Dwight. Danny passed each test. He was an implicit beast and specified a large leader, specified a large person. I was beauteous bummed for him successful the end, and I deliberation with Dwight arsenic well. I deliberation Dwight turned a corner, and the DS benignant of gave it to him a small spot successful a pugnacious emotion benignant of mode to truly get him to alteration his cognition a small spot and helium bought in. I was benignant of disappointed that helium didn’t marque it done either.”

In the end, the Olympian is “just ace arrogant and it conscionable shows the satellite however almighty women tin be. I deliberation Hannah and I some leaned connected 1 different to get done I, which was special.”

During their 10 days competing connected Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Hannah and Carli surely didn’t unrecorded a beingness of luxury. Once they had completed the last task and near basal camp, they some had 1 happening successful mind: a blistery shower.

Hannah Brown and Carli Lloyd aft making it done ‘Special Forces.’ (FOX)

“The archetypal happening I did erstwhile I was done was instrumentality a shower. I was truthful acceptable to ablution and shave my legs,” Hannah told HollywoodLife. Carli added, “I went to a edifice successful the city. My formation was retired the adjacent morning, truthful erstwhile I got to the hotel, the archetypal happening I couldn’t hold to bash was get successful the shower. I didn’t person a brush. We each didn’t person brushes. The magnitude of soil that was caked successful my hairsbreadth was similar thing I’d ever seen before. The ablution level was perfectly covered successful it. I had to spell done it astir apt 5 times. I deliberation for the adjacent week I was inactive benignant of uncovering small gritty soil that was successful my hair.”

Neither Hannah nor Carli went consecutive location aft completing Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. Hannah went connected a European vacation. “I conjecture that besides helped maine enactment the afloat 10 days due to the fact that that was coming,” Hannah revealed. “It was bully due to the fact that I was capable to conscionable relax. I deliberation it’s truly hard erstwhile you person these truly astonishing feelings of victory, and past that travel down I deliberation is truly difficult. So this gave maine thing to look guardant to and a caller adventure.”

Carli went consecutive from Jordan to London to play successful a foundation shot game. “My hubby sent maine there,” she said. “I got to spot him and spent astir 4 oregon 5 days successful London, and I really was playing shot for the adjacent 5 days.”

She continued, “It was an absorbing 24 hours of leaving the full ambiance and situation and benignant of processing astatine all. I did find myself connected the mode to London conscionable benignant of tearing up a small spot and getting affectional due to the fact that I consciousness similar I didn’t truly get affectional connected the show. But I conscionable couldn’t judge the acquisition that I had and went done and was capable to marque it to the end. That was ever my goal. But you ne'er cognize erstwhile you’re going to get there. It was rather an experience.”

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