{"id":360882,"date":"2026-04-02T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:41:08","slug":"kamilla-karthigesu-reveals-fiery-unseen-confessional-that-slammed-pregaming-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360882\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamilla Karthigesu Reveals Fiery Unseen Confessional That Slammed Pregaming (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat To Know<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Karthigesu was eliminated in Survivor 50\u2018s Blood Moon triple elimination.<br \/>\nShe accuses a three-person alliance of pregaming before arriving in Fiji.<br \/>\nKamilla shares that her exit was less graceful than shown, expressing frustration over pregaming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kamilla-karthigesu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamilla Karthigesu<\/a> wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/tiffany-ervin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiff Ervin<\/a> to \u201cblow up\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1255583\/survivor-50-episode-6-recap-blood-moon-triple-elimination-voted-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-person alliance that got her eliminated<\/a> from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/survivor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Survivor 50<\/a>, not only because they voted her out, but also because she alleges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1248113\/survivor-50-jenna-lewis-eliminated-first-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they pregamed together<\/a> before arriving in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla, originally from Season 48, was one of three players voted out in the Blood Moon triple elimination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1255418\/trump-iran-speech-tv-shows-interrupted-survivor-chicago-fire-pd-greatest-average-american-americas-culinary-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Episode 6<\/a>, which was the first time there were three tribal councils and three eliminations in one episode. The other two players voted out were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/genevieve-mushaluk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genevieve Mushaluk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/colby-donaldson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Donaldson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla and Tiff were in an alliance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/dee-valladares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dee Valladares<\/a> on Kalo, and they thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jonathan-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Young<\/a> (also from their original tribe, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/chrissy-hofbeck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chrissy Hofbeck<\/a>) would vote with them to send Chrissy home in the episode that aired on April 1. But Chrissy and the immune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/stephenie-lagrossa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick<\/a> swayed Jonathan to their side, and he blindsided Kamilla with the two women from the old era of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBro, drag that man through the mud,\u201d Kamilla told Tiff as she prepared to leave the game. Here, Kamilla explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1236531\/survivor-49-finalist-sage-ahrens-nichols-accuses-cast-pregaming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her pregaming accusations<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBro, drag that man through the mud.\u201d The floor is yours. Why did you say that about Jonathan, and what did you feel?<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Karthigesu: So, I just wanted to say that the reactions were reversed. The one where I said, \u201cBro,\u201d that was the reaction to the second vote, and the one where I had my head [down], that was the reaction to the final vote. I was like, \u201cDon\u2019t blow up, don\u2019t put Tiff in a bad position with whatever I\u2019m about to say,\u201d but basically, Jonathan, sticking with his new alliance partner in Steph, and going with Chrissy, basically in my head, confirmed a very openly talked about thing throughout the game, which was this pregame alliance.<\/p>\n<p>There are rumors that the three of them were in a pregame alliance together. And once that vote was read, I was like, \u201cOh, that confirms everything we\u2019ve been hearing.\u201d So, I basically was trying to tell Tiff, \u201cBlow up the pregame alliance, just call it out,\u201d but I didn\u2019t want to specifically call out the pregame alliance, because then that puts a massive target on Tiff\u2019s back, from whoever is in that pregame alliance, and I didn\u2019t want to ruin her game.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255782\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1255782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/survivor-50-episode-6-tribal-kamilla-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor 50' Episode 6 tribal council\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1255782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<p>Do you think she got the message?<\/p>\n<p>I think so. I hope so. I have no idea what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>When you were heading into tribal council, did you feel that any votes were going against you? How shocked were you by this result?<\/p>\n<p>I knew Chrissy\u2019s vote was gonna go against me, and then, actually, this is something we didn\u2019t see on TV: When I was talking to Steph about who to vote out, I was like, \u201cListen, me and you have only had one conversation prior to this split. If you don\u2019t trust me, let\u2019s do a Shot in the Dark exchange. I\u2019ll give you yours, so you know I\u2019m not playing mine, and then I\u2019ll take yours, so I know you\u2019re not writing my name down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was all, you know, based off of the fact that Steph doesn\u2019t know that it doesn\u2019t matter whose Shot in the Dark it is, you can just play it. I worded it that way, and Steph had exchanged Shot in the Dark with me, so I thought, \u201cOK, she\u2019s not gonna send her own Shot in the Dark home,\u201d so when I saw the second name written down, I knew I was done, because I knew [those three] were voting together.<\/p>\n<p>The story going into it was, \u201cEveryone tell Chrissy it\u2019s Kamilla, but we\u2019re really gonna write down Chrissy.\u201d And then, when I saw the second one, I was like, \u201cOh, it\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Shot in the Dark swap would have been fun to see.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but I mean, what was it, a 2-hour episode? And we had Exile Island, we had three tribal councils, we had a challenge, we had Applebee\u2019s. It\u2019s so hard to cram everything in. I get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1254306\/survivor-50-angelina-keeley-eliminated-interview-christian-feud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The edit this season<\/a> has been talked about a lot, though, so I wonder what conversations have been like between you and your castmates watching this season as it comes out.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I mean, honestly, I was just like, up until this episode, how does Tiff have less confessionals than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/zac-brown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Brown<\/a>? I thought that was crazy. We all thought that it was honestly sad. I was like, \u201cDid Tiff do something to piss off production?\u201d I have no idea. But after the last episode, I was like, \u201cOK, cool. We got to see more from the woman.\u201d I don\u2019t really care about my edit because I wasn\u2019t really relevant to the main story or whatever. I went out early, so I was fine with that. But I do wonder if they regret putting 24 of us in one season, because it really is hard to show everything.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four players in a 26-day game, 13-episode season is pretty tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that is not easy for them, so I get it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255781\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1255781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/survivor-50-applebees-reward-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor 50' Episode 6 Applebee's reward\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1255781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<p>It was a very woman-heavy episode, this \u201cBlood Moon.\u201d Lots of really fun confessionals. You finally saw some of the bite from the women, which I enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, like from Chrissy!<\/p>\n<p>It was really fun to see. Unfortunately, it got you out, but it was like it was good TV.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>You said in your exit interview, right at the end of the episode, \u201cIt was nice to be played.\u201d Do you still feel that way?<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you, Kelli, that came out of my mouth out of like 5 minutes of the producer trying to pull something positive out of me because I was not saying anything positive at all.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all.<\/p>\n<p> Tell me about those 5 minutes before then.<\/p>\n<p>I did not have a graceful exit, and I have no problem looking back and being like, \u201cYeah, I said that. Kind of embarrassing.\u201d I said, \u201cImagine being so bad at Survivor that you had to hop on a call with a bunch of other players who are also bad at Survivor, because none of you guys believe in your own skills to take you far in the game.\u201d That is what I had said, because the pre-gaming consumed me once my torch was snuffed.<\/p>\n<p>And then they were like, \u201cCome on, anything good, though? Were you happy with your time?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI wasn\u2019t here long enough for anything to change.\u201d Then they had to keep pulling and pulling. I was like, \u201cI guess it was cool to get played,\u201d because honestly, I didn\u2019t see it coming. I was shocked. My jaw literally dropped. That was kind of fun, having my jaw dropped. My jaw didn\u2019t drop much in 48, I will say. And so to have my jaw drop on 50, it was fun.<\/p>\n<p>What other strategy talks did you have in this episode that didn\u2019t get shown?<\/p>\n<p>Shot in the Dark swap with Steph. That was pretty much it, honestly. I was pushing Chrissy because Steph had told me, \u201cYou know, she really likes Jonathan, really likes Tiff.\u201d But now, in hindsight, my only option for survival was to throw Tiff under the bus, but I didn\u2019t have it in me. I talk about how I hate honor and integrity, but I actually am a loyal Survivor player. I like Tiff. I don\u2019t wanna do that. It ruins my game, the next vote.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything else earlier in the season that you really wish had been shown?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so when we sent Charlie [Davis] home, I didn\u2019t want to send Charlie home. I also wasn\u2019t the swing vote. I was trying to get rid of Jonathan that night. I told everyone, \u201cWe\u2019re swapping tomorrow,\u201d because Rizo [Velovic] told us there were two swaps on his season, so I\u2019m like, \u201cThere\u2019s gonna be two swaps on ours.\u201d Nobody believed me. They all said we need Jonathan for the next challenge, and so that\u2019s why he\u2019s still there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255792\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1255792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/survivor-50-episode-6-challenge-830x570.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor 50' Episode 6 challenge\" width=\"830\" height=\"570\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1255792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<p>Interesting. Can you give a sense of what it was like at camp before tribal council, because it seemed like you and Tiff seemed kind of confident heading into it?<\/p>\n<p>For me, I was stressed because I told Steph, \u201cGo talk to other people. If you don\u2019t want to do the Dhot in the Dark trade, we don\u2019t have to do it.\u201d And so she was like, \u201cYeah, I\u2019ll go talk to people.\u201d As soon as she was done talking to everyone, she comes over, we exchange Shot in the Darks, and then they say, \u201cEveryone quiet, we\u2019re going to tribal council now.\u201d There was no opportunity to strategize at all. I was just waiting, waiting, waiting to receive this Shot in the Dark from her the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>In preseason interviews, you said you were really looking forward to working with Coach. Once you got put on the same tribe, how did you feel?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great. We were talking strategy while we were out there. He was just so entertaining. I was asking him a lot about his life. I wanted to hear all the stories about his journey through the Amazon, about how he is now the maestro leader of the Susanville Symphony. I want to hear everything. He\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>Were there any other players you became close with that we didn\u2019t see?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say Mike [White] and Charlie, and then, to a certain point, I\u2019m like, \u201cCharlie, I don\u2019t know, man, Charlie is not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy was telling me a lot about how she wants to get out, Dee and Tiff. Mike, I actually was surprisingly close with. He told me a lot of things that the other people on Kalo were comfortable enough to tell him that they didn\u2019t want to tell us. He told me that Chrissy was calling me the \u201cmole\u201d on our tribe, and how I was working with everyone, but I think everyone was working with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know that Tiff and Dee really, really wanted to play with me until a couple of days in. I thought they were going to draw me in and use me, but it turns out we actually did want to play together.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me more about that alliance, because I\u2019ve got to say, that was an unexpected trio for me. I don\u2019t know why I never thought that could work really well, and then I saw you three talk, and I was like, \u201cOh, wait, yeah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went into this, and I saw like all the pairs and stuff, and I\u2019m like, \u201cMaybe me and Charlie or maybe me and Chrissy.\u201d And then for them [Tiff and Dee] to welcome me with open arms, I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my God, the cool girls want to talk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We were talking to Mike and Charlie a lot. The five of us were having a lot of conversations, but also me and Tiff were having a lot of conversations with Coach as well. Coach was sharing a lot with us. Coach wanted Dee out. A lot of people wanted Dee out\u2026but I think the consensus would have eventually [lain] on Chrissy because more people wanted Chrissy out. A lot of strategy was happening on that early tribe. It just doesn\u2019t pan out because none of us went to tribal council.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255783\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1255783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/survivor-50-kamilla-voted-out-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"Kamilla Karthigesu and Jeff Probst in 'Survivor 50' Episode 6\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1255783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<p>Why did people want Chrissy out more than Dee?<\/p>\n<p>I would say each season of Survivor may have its own culture, right? Maybe on the season Chrissy played [Season 35], whenever people would go off and talk to each other, everyone had to be like, \u201cLook at those two, they\u2019re going off and talking to each other.\u201d And so Chrissy was doing that on our starting tribe. Every single time anyone went off to talk on their own, she\u2019d be like, \u201cThose two just went off together.\u201d Or if someone was not sitting around a camp, [she would say] \u201cWhere\u2019s so and so?\u201d That honestly got kind of annoying, because no one else would bring it up.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all playing Survivor, everyone\u2019s allowed to go off and talk to whoever they want to. I don\u2019t like announcing it every time it happens; it just feels so weird. So, there\u2019s a bit of that, and Chrissy had said, according to Mike, that the new-era people want to get the old-era people out because they\u2019re insecure about their 26-day game versus the 39-day game, and I was like, bro\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t think that\u2019s true?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not thinking about that! I want to work with the old-school people. I wanted a mix. I didn\u2019t want this to be some boring old era versus new era. That\u2019s not fun television. I wanted a mix. I don\u2019t know about the other new-era people.<\/p>\n<p>You were there with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/joe-hunter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Hunter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kyle-fraser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Fraser<\/a> from your season, and you had said in preseason press that if you knew Kyle would be there, you would have said no. Was that true?<\/p>\n<p>No way anyone\u2019s going to turn down 50. That was me trying to be funny, but Reddit took it very seriously and thought I was so entitled when I said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jeff-probst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff [Probst]<\/a> needed to disclose this to me. Reddit needs to go literally touch grass. Stop. I don\u2019t understand. They\u2019re crazy.<\/p>\n<p>It would be understandable if you didn\u2019t want to play with Kyle just because of the circumstances of your season having just aired, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1193551\/survivor-48-winner-kyle-fraser-kamilla-shauhin-vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you two went to the end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was like, \u201cOh, it\u2019s gonna make my return a lot harder.\u201d If I was so focused on being the star player, someone who runs the season, yeah, I would have wanted my own season to myself, but no, I just want to play Survivor. I don\u2019t care who\u2019s playing there, I don\u2019t care how hard it is. If I [were] stuck with honor and integrity again, like if I had to repeat 48, I would do it. It was fun. Some times weren\u2019t fun, but just playing Survivor is so fun, and you don\u2019t get to do that anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>You cried when you found out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1248100\/survivor-50-kyle-fraser-injury-update-achilles-eliminated-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle was eliminated<\/a> due to injury. Tell me more about what you were feeling in that moment.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know anything about sports injuries, so I didn\u2019t know how serious this was. I was just very concerned for his health, and I was concerned for his wife. And then also there\u2019s a part of me where it\u2019s like, I look around at everyone, and people have met each other before. People are friendly or friends with each other. I didn\u2019t have that aside from Kyle and Joe, and with Kyle going, I\u2019m like, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve got no friends here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When you have pre-existing relationships outside of the game, and you bring them in, you feel like there\u2019s some amount of base-level trust or understanding, but I didn\u2019t have that with anyone with Kyle being gone. And so that sucked. It made me feel a little lonely as well.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you have another season in you?<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I was like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m never gonna come back,\u201d because I was totally oblivious to all the pre-gaming that goes in. And so, when my vote-out happens, I was like, \u201cI\u2019m never gonna do it.\u201d But then, once I saw that, no one gets penalized for this, and production really doesn\u2019t actually care. I\u2019ll do it again. If anyone watching this ends up on another season of Survivor, slide into my DMs. We\u2019ll make an alliance. We\u2019ll name our operation, call it Saxon or something. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Survivor 50, Wednesdays, 8\/7c, CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What To Know Kamilla Karthigesu was eliminated in Survivor 50\u2018s Blood Moon triple elimination. 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