Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Challenge: USA 2episode 6, “A Really Good-Looking Underdog.”
Dusty Harris thought he slayed one ofThe Challenge’s best competitors.
“The clock says otherwise.”
Dusty Harris and Wes Bergmann.Jonne Roriz/Paramount
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How are you feeling about your exit now that you’ve watched it on TV?
DUSTY HARRIS:This morning has been a bit somber.
I was completely wrong.
Dusty Harris and Wes Bergmann.Jonne Roriz/Paramount
I’m here to eat crow on that.
Tiffany is a badass.
What was your reaction when TJ announced you lost?
Monte Taylor, Alyssa Snider, Tyler Crispen, Michaela Bradshaw, Desi Williams, Cassidy Clark, Wes Bergmann, and Dusty Harris.Jonne Roriz/Paramount
The time waiting for them to announce who won this elimination was gut-wrenching.
I felt very confident that I had won.
I felt like that I balanced much better on the wheel than him.
‘The Challenge: USA’.Jonne Roriz/Paramount
I was completely and utterly dumbfounded, to be honest with you.
I’m going to learn from it.
There’s a definite huge advantage in experience in this game.
Why was everyone so sure that Wes had lost?
I think it was the time that Wes spent trying to spin the smaller wheel with me on it.
It looked like a no-brainer that I’d pulled it off.
As soon as I did that, it really expedited untying the wheels.
From a visual standpoint, that looks like a win more than untying ropes.
In my heart I thought I had it.
Tell me about the exact moment when you realized you didn’t win.
Just absolute, utter defeat.
I can’t even put it into words.
It was like the world crumbled down around me.
This is going to be miserable.
Did you know you would get votes in the hopper?
And honestly, I didn’t want to go through the season and not go into elimination.
My temper got the best of me.
I jumped to a preconceived notion in my head from a conversation I had with Alyssa.
It just made sense to me.
I told myself, “Dusty, walk away.”
I truly believe it cost me this opportunity and put me into elimination earlier than probably I would have.
You mentioned you’ve already apologized to Tiffany.
How did that conversation go?
The next morning after this blow up, I approached Tiffany.
It was my biggest regret of the season, how I spoke to her.
There’s better ways to communicate with one another, but the walls close in on you.
It’s a pressure cooker.
I give myself no excuses though.
My blowup caused me to go in and I have to live with that.
I have no ill will towards her.
I hope it’s reciprocal.
It was in the heat of battle.
We actually had a great relationship on the show, worked well together on Team Red Flags.
But the situation was completely my fault.
I could have burned a bridge.
I hope not, but we’re going to find out.
What’s something that we didn’t we see on TV?
[Laughs] Wes has probably rubbed holes in every single plant in our room.
It’s really funny.
Do you want to return for future seasons?
I want to go back more than anything.
I have unfinished business.
I’m not just going back, I’m coming back to win and I will win.
I will be aChallengechampion, mark my words.
You came into this season idolizing Bananas and the rest of the vets.
What’s your relationship like with them now?
I have a great relationship with them.
I donotlove Bananas, everyone.
Bananas is not my hero, I assure you.
He is a legend of the game, but editing is a hell of a [thing].
It’s all been in good fun though.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
