Ousted Survivor 49 player Annie Davis spills on lots of stuff that did not make it to TV.The contestant voted out second says it was no fun getting her torch snuffed, and even harder to watch back what her tribemates said about her.Behold the bonkers story of Annie’s “aqua dump” gone horribly wrong.<\/p>\n
Annie Davis is used to bring the frontwoman. She owns her own company and is the lead singer in a rock band. But the woman who thought she was the puppet master of Survivor 49<\/a> turned out to just be a puppet in the end.\n<\/p>\n Annie was the second person sent out of the game<\/a> after her cursed Kele tribe lost their fifth straight team or individual competition. While Annie thought she was leading the vote against Jake Latimer<\/a> \u2014\u00a0and then Sophi Balerdi \u2014\u00a0in actuality, the rest of the tribe was all aligned in taking her out, and Annie was unanimously voted out after just five days in the game.\n<\/p>\n How does Annie feel about her abbreviated stay on the island? Does she have any hard feelings after watching everything play back on TV? And does she wish she had toned it down around her tribemates? We spoke to Survivor 49\u2019s second victim the morning after her televised ouster.\n<\/p>\n Annie Davis on ‘Survivor 49’.<\/p>\n Robert Voets\/CBS<\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me what was going through your mind when you saw you name keep coming up at Tribal Council?\n<\/p>\n ANNIE DAVIS: Oh man, it was rough because I was completely blindsided last night. I really had no idea that I was going home. And so, you know, your heart breaks. It can’t not. It’s not that I don’t understand it. I really do in hindsight, but it’s rough to see your name come up anytime, and to see it come up over and over again, it gets worse and worse and worse. So, yeah, it was rough.\n<\/p>\n What was the experience like of watching the two episodes play back on TV and seeing what your tribemates were actually saying about you when you weren\u2019t around?\n<\/p>\n Oh, that was the hardest part, as I think it probably is for anybody on this show, because you think your own reality is truth, and you really have no idea until you see it all back and say, \u201cOh my God, they hated me!\u201d I know they didn’t hate me, but “They hated me!” you know?\n<\/p>\n And so you can spin yourself into a tizzy thinking about all that, but at the end of the day, I also can very much separate gameplay from reality. And so I can be best buddies with all of these people now. The game is the game, but it is kind of crazy and a little bit emotionally wrenching to see people talking about you behind your back in a way that you’re like, \u201cOh my God, I had no idea that’s what they thought about me.\u201d So it can be tough for sure.\n<\/p>\n How did you feel about Sophi calling you a Karen in real life?\n<\/p>\n So, as a cast, we all watched the premiere together. And so I got to see the foreshadowing of her calling me a Karen on episode 2. And there was just this collective like, \u201cOhhhh, you said that?\u201d The whole cast went kind of crazy. And what we ended up doing is I made a bunch of \u201cTeam Karen\u201d shirts for the episode last night. My husband and a lot of my friends were wearing Team Karen shirts. So, you know what? This is a laugh or cry world, and you just have to take that stuff and let it roll off. And I know she doesn’t feel like that now, so it’s okay.\n<\/p>\n You said it kind of perfectly before, Annie, because that is Survivor. You see it all through your eyes when you’re out there, and then you watch it on TV and you see it through other people’s eyes. What was the most surprising thing for you when you watched the episodes back?\n<\/p>\n I do think it was the fact that some of my tribemates, especially Sophi and Jeremiah, thought that I was as bossy as they thought I was, and that I was controlling and all these things. I have that in me. I’m a CEO, I front a band, I’ve done Ironmans and all these things that are very much solo endeavors. So if I want to get stuff done, I go and I get it done.\n<\/p>\n But I, really on the island, went with the intention of trying to help and, \u201cHey, guys, let’s find the coconuts that have the water inside because we need the fluid,\u201d and, \u201cHey, guys, let’s build a shelter so we don’t get rained on.\u201d And they perceived it as super bossy and controlling. And all I was trying to do was get out there and help my tribe. And so that was surprising to me. But also not totally unexpected, just a little bit surprising because I thought we were kind of all in that together, and we were not.\n<\/p>\n The Kele Tribe on ‘Survivor 49’.<\/p>\n Robert Voets\/CBS\u00a0<\/p>\n I know you pride yourself on being the big boss lady in your real life back home, and that’s just sort of your natural leadership inclination. And it’s hard to sort of curb that when you get out into elements.\n<\/p>\n It’s very hard. And especially when it comes from a place of love, which mine really does. I’m a benevolent dictator, you know? [Laughs] I’ve always got people’s best interests because I ultimately just want to help. And it isn’t me needing to be in control of everything from the sense of just trying to control for the sake of control.\n<\/p>\n It’s not that. It’s much more trying to help, and you’ve got to have somebody leading. You can’t have everybody just wandering around with nobody knowing what to do. And so I was trying to help our tribe by taking some of that on, but it ultimately bit me in the ass. And it happens. Not the first time.\n<\/p>\n We saw you call yourself the puppet master. What made you think you were in such control out there?\n<\/p>\n I still think maybe on a different season or a different tribe, this strategy would’ve been okay, but my game going in was to find a number one and make that a very secret thing and kind of part ways with that person and stay away from them as much as possible. And so I hit up Alex from day one because I’m looking around the tribe and thinking, \u201cOkay, I can probably use these other people, but Alex is my guy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n And so we connected, and the idea was we each go split off and find our fake number ones and then we’re sort of controlling things from the inside and we sort of stay away from each other. So that strategy on a different tribe might’ve been okay, but there were a lot of things going on in the background with these other people that I just didn’t know.\n<\/p>\n And maybe Jake got to Alex first. I don’t know how that all worked or where his head was at. But I liked my strategy. I just think now in hindsight I’m realizing that either Alex didn’t actually want to work with me like I thought he did, or maybe somebody else got to him first. And I just was kind of the odd man out in that whole situation.\n<\/p>\n Jeff Probst and the cast of ‘Survivor 49’.<\/p>\n Robert Voets\/CBS<\/p>\n We saw Alex tell you he found the immunity idol, but what did he tell you he was going to do with it?\n<\/p>\n I was sitting in the shelter because we had had our plan for the vote \u2014\u00a0at least I thought. And he meets me in the shelter and he said, \u201cGuess what? I found the idol.\u201d And I said, \u201cHoly crap, this is amazing.\u201d And he said, \u201cThis is for us. I I will use it for you if you feel like you have any inkling that somebody’s going to vote you out. Or we can use it, we can take to the merge, whatever.” So his message to me was: This is for us as a team. Because at the time, I thought we had a really strong alliance.\n<\/p>\n I think that was a bummer. I would’ve never asked him to use the idol for me. I just wouldn’t have, because I was just happy that he found it because I felt like, \u201cI love this guy and I’ll never write his name down. We, we got this thing.\u201d So it was really exciting to hear he got the idol, and it was a bummer to see how it all played out. But that was kind of what went through my head because that was the message to me.\n<\/p>\n What was the point of him doing that? We saw Jake say earlier, \u201cMake her feel really comfortable.\u201d Do you think he was just trying to make you feel comfortable? Because otherwise what’s the point of even telling you?\n<\/p>\n