‘Survivor’: Cassidy Admits She Was ‘Shocked’ By Final Tribal & Felt She Played The ‘Best Game’

Cassidy Clark was beauteous assured that she had it successful the container erstwhile she made the final Survivor tribal assembly alongside Mike Gabler and Owen Knight. Cassidy won the past immunity situation of the play and helped acceptable up the ousting of the biggest threat, Jesse Lopez, by putting Gabler against him successful a occurrence making challenge. Gabler coiled up beating Jesse successful conscionable implicit 4 minutes, leaving Cassidy with precisely who she wanted to beryllium adjacent to astatine the end. However, she coiled up lone receiving 1 ballot astatine the last tribal council, with Gabler taking each of the others and yet winning the game.

“I was beauteous shocked,” she admitted successful an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly. “I conscionable felt similar I had acceptable myself up for the win. And I deliberation adjacent — betwixt maine and Owen — we were successful awe. Good for Gabler. Obviously I ne'er privation to instrumentality distant from somebody’s win. He truly pulled that out. But I got to say, I was a small surprised.”

Cassidy Clark aft her immunity win. (CBS)

Cassidy was successful bully spirits arsenic she celebrated with Gabler, Owen and the assemblage instantly pursuing the vote. She sipped champagne, ate pizza and discussed the crippled with host Jeff Probst with a grin connected her face. However, she said that that infinitesimal was “one of the hardest things” she had to spell through. “Truly, I truly felt precise assured similar I could triumph this,” Cassidy explained. “For a batch of the game, I wasn’t definite I was susceptible of that. So erstwhile it was close determination successful beforehand of me, I felt similar I had played the champion crippled considering who I was sitting adjacent to.”

Cassidy admittedly “drank mode excessively overmuch champagne” portion trying to woody with the shock. The adjacent day, erstwhile everything sunk in, she said she had a “really atrocious panic attack” implicit the situation. “It was conscionable truthful overmuch to spell done wrong 24 hours and determination was truly nary clip to process it,” she said. “So it was difficult.” She besides revealed that she inactive goes done “cycles” with her feelings astir the loss. “I’m arrogant of the crippled I played, but to beryllium that adjacent and to truly deliberation you had it, and past for it truthful gaffe distant similar that, you commencement questioning each small happening you did,” she admitted.

Cassidy successful the last immunity challenge. (CBS)

Throughout the season, Cassidy was ne'er connected the incorrect broadside of the vote. She besides won 3 idiosyncratic immunity challenges which helped her beforehand successful the game. However, she received immoderate disapproval from the assemblage for not giving up her last 4 immunity to instrumentality connected Jesse successful the occurrence making situation herself, which would’ve been an accidental to physique her resume adjacent more.

“It was conscionable offensive, honestly, due to the fact that I earned that past challenge,” Cassidy said, of the assemblage backlash. “That was a brainsick magnitude of unit to enactment nether and the biggest immunity of the season. I was truthful arrogant of myself and I didn’t consciousness similar it was just to say, ‘You person to springiness this up oregon you’re not getting my vote. You person to hazard it.'” She added, “Obviously Gabler made the fire, but I was a immense portion successful getting the biggest menace retired of the game.”

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