Big winner of the first individual event at the launch of Koh-Lanta, The Cursed Totem then leader of the blue team, alexandra quickly established herself as one of the leading adventurers of this edition of the TF1 survival game. And while some saw her go to the posts, she was finally eliminated during the seventh episode broadcast on Tuesday April 12, 2022. It was after two votes and then a draw against Setha that Alexandra was forced to leave the adventure. In interview for Purepeople.comshe opens up about this crazy adventure and reveals why Bastien voted against her…
How did you experience your elimination?
I anticipated my elimination because I was convinced that Setha had a necklace. But the fact that the adventure was ending was really hard to accept. Today, in retrospect, I feel like it was the biggest failure of my life. I have the feeling that I didn’t fight until the end. I relativized by telling myself that I was going to eat, find my children. Because I knew it was going to be very hard for me to leave. I who am very fighter, I did not manage to go beyond the wall of the collar of immunity of Setha. While there were solutions… I was not able to reverse the trend. I could have discussed with Colin to try to vote against Yannick. I was not able to get out of the frame, it’s difficult.
After two ties with Setha, you end up with a draw during which you close your eyes. What did you think at that time?
I closed my eyes at each draw to avoid having the black ball. And there I did it out of superstition, telling myself that it had worked from the start since I never shot a black ball in the tests. Faced with Setha, I win at shifumi and in addition it is I who choose the ball and I change at the last minute. And when I see the black ball, I say to myself: “Shit!” I had prepared to leave, but there for once I put things into perspective too soon.
Do you understand the votes of your comrades against you?
I was surprised by Bastien’s vote, I understood it afterwards. In fact, Setha had made her promise that he wouldn’t vote against her. She was smart. Bastien wanted Setha to take out his necklace so he made Colin promise to vote against Setha. I couldn’t get Colin’s vote to change. Regarding Nicolas’s vote, I understand it a posteriori. Setha could be an ally for him, so his vote is smart.
What do you think of Setha’s fake necklace strategy?
What you need to know is that I was not in the purple camp. So when Anne-Sophie looks me in the eye and tells me that Setha has a necklace, I take her word for it because she’s my friend and I know she’s not going to put it on me upside down. We have this conviction, this framework. And she kept saying she was a gamer. So she’s not taking her collar out, but we think it’s because someone threw her out that she wasn’t in danger. At this stage of the game, we don’t know that she doesn’t have a collar.
Since the beginning of the adventure, several adventurers have wanted to eliminate you. Benjamin already with whom you did not get along. What happened ?
On the blue camp, we were all hyper active. Everyone had missions, everyone gave their own. And Benjamin was the only one who, under the guise of fetching coconuts, went into the rocks to get an immunity collar. Samira made the reflection to him, saying to him: “Are you looking for cocos at water level, in the rocks?” (Laughs). It’s a bit like when you live in a group on a boat and everyone is busy except one. After a while, it’s boring. I blamed him for his inactive side. He was also very confident in certain events, in the end he crashed. I didn’t want to show him that it was exasperating, we were trying to drive him and he was doing things by dragging his paw. I took it upon myself but in the long run it is complicated.
Subsequently, Stephanie plans a strategy against you…
As far as she is concerned, it was a strategy that I completely understand. When you want to save yourself, you have to shoot someone else. And it was me. I think she saw that things were wrong with Benjamin and she thought that maybe there was something to get out of it. She tried. It’s the game, it’s normal.
There was also talk of breaking up your trio with Olga and Colin. What do you think of this strategy?
It’s normal, it’s part of the strategy. It was smart of them to break up this trio. We know not to let threesomes go far in the adventure. It was up to us to be a little smarter and think ahead. I blame Olga, Colin and me for not being strategic enough at this stage of the game. We are in sport, survival. However, we know that Koh Lanta it’s strategy.
On social networks, Internet users are not kind to you. “Unbearable”, “annoying”… How do you take it?
It’s obvious that it’s never pleasant to see negative things about yourself, on social networks or elsewhere. I saw right away, from the first episode, that in the way I presented myself, when I talked about the fact that I was directive, everyone perceived that as authoritarianism. It was not at all the reality, I had my vision of leadership. By presenting myself like that, I had behind my head the benevolent, participative side. But between what you say and people’s perception, there is a disconnect. I don’t think I’m unbearable on a daily basis. Otherwise, everyone would have been fed up from day one. It’s one minute over three days that makes me send back this image…
What did you suffer the most from?
Cold. We dread hunger a lot, so of course it is present, but the cold is much harder to bear. Because it’s much more intense. We don’t have a towel, we try to keep the dry clothes aside. And when it rains you have to endure. It can last for hours and hours. It was really very difficult.
What was your first gesture on the way back?
Eat ! I arrived very early in the morning and told my mom: “I absolutely want a croissant from this bakery.“She told me that there was another bakery not far away. I told her: “No, but you didn’t understand. I dreamed about it, this is the one I want!“After that, it was couscous, raclette… For ten days! At the camp, Nicolas talked a lot about food. We had time to imagine all the dishes we were going to eat when we got back.
How was the reunion with your companion, your children?
Great moment of happiness to find my children! I’m going out for 20 days of adventure but there was a period of confinement before, it had actually been a month since I had seen them or heard from them on the phone. It was obviously very intense. I took advantage of them to make up for lost time. There is always a guilt as a mother to leave her children. It did me a lot of good, then I gradually returned to normal life.
What are your projects ?
A Koh Lanta All StarsI hope !
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