Youre kidding me, you guys.
How is Anika feelingnowabout her elimination?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lets relive one of the worst moments of your life, shall we?
Anika Dhar on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
He said, “Hey, Anika, by the way, Andy’s throwing your name out.
He’s saying, you’re the weakest on the tribe.”
Sam reassures me there’s nothing to worry about.
Sierra Wright, Rachel LaMont, Anika Dhar, Andy Rueda, and Sam Phalen on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
Sierra reassures me there’s nothing to worry about.
We have this solid four.
We’re all good.
The Gata tribe on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
I end up trusting my alliance.
It works out for the first vote.
Unfortunately, it does not work out for the second time that we’re at Tribal Council.
Kyle Ostwald, Rome Cooney, and Anika Dhar on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’m like, Oh man, Andy’s writing my name down again.
You see it on my face and the rest of my reaction.
It was very genuine.
Jeff Probst and the cast of ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
I was not expecting that in the slightest.
What’s it like being told your game’s over?
The one word for it, it was blindsided.
‘Survivor 47’ contestant Anika Dhar.Robert Voets/CBS
I am truly blindsided.
I black out a little bit too immediately after seeing my name.
I don’t even think I remember the exact details.
The moment where I’m staring at them, I don’t even remember doing that in my head.
I was flabbergasted at everyone.
There was so much going on, but truly I just needed to know immediately, specifically.
The first question I asked is to Rachel, right?
I’m like, Did you know about this?
Because I needed to know if everyone was against me immediately.
Whom were you most mad at or did you feel the most betrayed by?
That’s a great question.
In the moment, it was definitely Sam.
And you see me crying immediately after, I think it was seeing his smile.
You see us running every single challenge together.
You see us finding the idol together.
Or after he would yell at me in the challenge, we’d level set with each other.
I was appreciating his intelligence as someone who I could work with.
And I did not know that.
I didn’t feel that out there.
And then obviously watching it back now, it stings with Sierra because we had that girl alliance.
I didn’t know that she was in the know from episode 2.
I at least assumed maybe it was just like a last minute, Sam was trying to grab her.
How hard was it filming your final words there after being voted out?
Dalton, I forgot that there were final words!
You walk off immediately, right?
And in that moment, I’m thinking about What the heck just happened?
I am not remembering that I have to sit and do another last interview for final words.
And so it was hard.
Well, that’s what I want to see.
I mean, your pain was my gain.
So what was the rest of the night for you at Ponderosa like once the cameras did shut off.
I am bawling, crying to them.
And all of them were so welcoming with open arms.
Jon Lovett, who’s sitting at the far end of the table, moves his chair up.
And I’m giving them all the tea that they missed.
I was like, Let me tell you everything!
But yeah, I joined a really awesome group at Ponderosa.
What has it been like for the past five months knowing this episode was coming?
Honestly, full of anxiety and nerves.
And it is been a lot of processing for me.
So it’s sitting with the outcome.
It’s sitting with people blindsiding you.
I had my full faith and trust.
It’s going to be so great.
What was my edit going to be?
I don’t know.
So I honestly thank you editors.
I’m pleased by it.
And I think for the most part, we got to see who I was.
I always say everything before the puzzle in a challenge is just window dressing.
So saying that, how is it that you ended up sitting out of that last immunity challenge?
There was a puzzle and you’ve proved yourself to be very adept at them.
So I did not want to sit out.
The conversation that happens behind the scenes in strategy was that they all saw the coconuts.
Unfortunately, the two spots were the puzzle and cutting the rope.
And I also do think that I would be able to hold the coconuts.
I would’ve loved to.
I didn’t want to sit out.
It sucks so hard, and that sits with me a lot.
What if I fought a little bit harder to have someone else sit out instead of me?
What would be the outcome?
As the big alpha, is Sam making these decisions for the tribe?
In that moment, he was.
And a lot of our strategy talks, he was owning them.
And, as you know, the strategy time is a minute, maybe a bit more.
I don’t know if there’s a misconception on how much time we get.
It’s very quick.
They go by so quickly.
We don’t get to a lot of time to have a full discussion about it.
Why did she go with Sam?
It was formed on literally day one when we got back from the island.
And from that moment, Sam and Sierra reassured me and Rachel so much.
We can either go with Andy or John or we can go with Sam and Sierra."
And because Rachel was my number one, she was able to feed me that information.
And Sierra also emotionally out there would come to me and Rachel and be like Are we good?
just tell me we’re good.
So again, that’s another thing I’m really shocked to watch back Sierra playing this middle game.
Sam made it seem like you were being too bossy out there.
Was that the case?
Were you being too bossy?
I personally do not think I was being too bossy.
What was not shown is how much time had elapsed before I was able to say anything.
And Anika, what do you think about that?
And what about this?
And it almost prompted me to take this leadership position.
Dalton, I tried so hard out there to be like, Guys, what does everyone think?
I tried so hard because I was aware of that perception.
I was aware going out there, but it was hard for me when you’re starving, right?
What would that serve?
And I don’t think necessarily the bossiness or the leadership role is what sent me home.
I don’t think that’s why Sam was gunning for me.
Whats something interesting that happened out there that didnt make it to TV?
When we finally get the eggs, they lay one egg, one beautiful egg.
Sierra catches the egg, she gives it to me.
I’m like the chef of the group.
No one breaks it at all.
Andy comes over, lifts up the pot lid, and I’m yelling The egg!
from around the camp and he slams it down and the egg shatters and all of us are flabbergasted.
We all watch like, Oh my God, the one source of food.
And that goes into something else: Returning the chickens was my idea.
I suggested that because there was a lot of chicken content.
I personally couldn’t stand having them there.
I have no soap and water.
Our fire wasn’t strong enough.
And so it’s not that I was anti-killing them because the protein would’ve been awesome.
It was thinking about the process so you can get to that protein that really concerned me.
Last one for you: Did you or did you not cheer for Andy when he opened the coconut?
It’s funny, because the first couple of days I thought I was cheering for everyone!
So I’m sorry, Andy, I did not cheer for you.
