Moriah Gaynor (‘Survivor 46’ exit interview): ‘You deserve as much as you believe you do’
On Wednesday’s sixth episode of “Survivor 46,” the three tribes advanced to the “limbo” stage of the new era where they’d compete in randomized groups for immunity and to earn their spot in the soon-to-be-merged tribe. A lopsided, albeit random, rock draw left Moriah Gaynor in one of the vulnerable positions and then her own original Siga tribe joined every other player to unanimously vote her out of the game. Read on for Moriah’s “Survivor 46” exit interview from the end of the episode.
After being blindsided by the other Siga players when they banded together to blindside Jemila “Jem” Hussain-Adams and leave her out of that plan, Moriah knew that she was on the bottom of their tribal alliance going into the merge. And yet, when the three tribes came together, Moriah played along with the Siga story that they all, including Moriah, unanimously voted against Jem and were a united front. From every other Siga perspective, this made sense so that they could prevent the other two tribes from seeing Moriah as a crack in their tribe that they could expose. From Moriah’s perspective, it only made sense in order to appear loyal to her own tribe.
After a random rock draw at the challenge that resulted in a female-dominated group, made up of three Siga players and three Nami players, losing immunity, Moriah was the name that Ben Katzman and Tim Spicer were willing to throw out as an option for the playing-the-middle Yanu players to vote out. It wasn’t until the Tribal Council that Moriah decided to expose the Siga lie that she was left out of her vote in her last ditch effort to pitch that it isn’t her that is a danger to any of them. It was too little too late for Q Burdette who told her that she should have told them about this earlier.
“I just got voted out of ‘Survivor,'” Moriah lamented after being voted out by 12 other players, including all of her original Siga tribe mates. “The good news: everyone spelled my name right, so small victory there.”
“In this game, my biggest takeaway is ‘you deserve as much as you believe you do’ and that’s up to you to determine,” Moriah continued, hinting at her disappointment that she was undervalued and thrown under the bus by her tribe. Ultimately, she was feared by other players in the game because she was a student of the game and reminded them of the popular and popularly smart player Aubry Bracco. “It’s sad to know that this is where my journey stops,” Moriah concluded.
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