“Koh-Lanta”: “I shot myself in the foot from the first day”, admits Stéphanie, eliminated … – 20 Minutes

The flame of his torch had been flickering for several weeks. This Tuesday, Denis Brogniart extinguished the torch of Stéphanie, she who escaped elimination last week thanks to a draw against Benjamin. This time, the Koh-Lanta candidate saw her hopes of a turnaround dashed despite her good idea for an anti-blue alliance. Her last minutes were even sporting since she clashed with Colin. “When I left the council, he made me a little heart with his fingers”, she reveals to 20 Minutes. The council is marked by your little confusion with Colin. Why did the tone rise? When Colin explains that there is a yellow team, I smile in disapproval. I see that there are still disparities and that we feel a very strong ex-blue trio. At the time, I didn’t understand Colin’s reaction. He told me it was my problem but it wasn’t an assault at all. I didn’t expect to be attacked like that, that’s why I reacted a little strongly. I didn’t say anything mean so there’s no point jumping down my throat. I calmed him down a bit and that’s what gave this thing. But Colin is a fiery little young man whom I adore, so it’s a mess that lasted twenty seconds. When I left the council, he made me a little heart with his fingers. Is it a real risk to open it during the council? Yes, but anyway, on Koh-Lanta, it’s a risk of opening it H24 (laughs). We are always on our guard, we never always say what we think because we are always afraid of being judged. I preferred to be myself. I don’t think it made a huge difference for tonight’s vote, people decided it was going to be me. Your plan to eliminate Alexandra really could have worked. Why didn’t that happen? It was a good strategy, but I couldn’t convince Anne-Sophie, who was hesitant. She said that the forts had to be kept at this stage of the adventure. I tried to plead my case, to tell him that Alexandra was nil in the last two events, that she made us lose immunity… Alexandra said from day one that she was very strong and remained in the minds. From day one I said I wasn’t strong and it stuck in my mind, I shot myself in the foot. You drew three black balls before three of the trials. Is this the biggest regret of your adventure? No, it’s the second. My biggest regret is having highlighted my weaknesses instead of my strengths. I think that’s what cost me my adventure. The black balls, I’m fed up but at least it makes people around me laugh. The other day, in the galette des rois, I had a black ball instead of the bean (laughs). In real life, in the game, the first one was fine. The second, it was starting to smell like bad luck. The third, I cried because I was only living the horrible things of Koh-Lanta: survival, nights, rain, cold, hunger. I didn’t even experience the fun of the events, the excitement and the fact of bonding with my team. At the end, I was a spectator of Koh-Lanta and it was frustrating. In their votes, some like Colin and Nicolas blame you for your lack of sporting level. What do you think? If I had kept my big mouth shut when I said I sucked, they wouldn’t have had the material to say that. This is where my elimination is entirely my fault. If I had said when I arrived that I walked three hours a day with my dog, that I went horseback riding, gymnastics, and that I had an infallible balance, it would never have happened like that. You had votes against you from the first council. Is this a difficult situation to live in? It’s very difficult because we are going through something that the majority of the others don’t know at this level of the game. When you’re in the hot seat, you have pressure on everything. I never said to myself that I was going to put myself in the hammock to rest because I was going to be judged. I gave myself twice as much on the camp, I was always active from sunrise to sunset. And then I pulled the black balls so I spent less energy than the others so I had to double it. Having his name on the board changes his adventure. We are under pressure all the time and it’s really exhausting. On the networks, we could see you with a lot of self-mockery. The diffusion, it was only positive for you? People make me die laughing. There is still a guy who edited me with my head on a bag of cement [Nicolas a comparé Stéphanie à un sac de ciment la semaine dernière]. What’s more, he sent it to me saying “it’s humor, won’t you blame me? “It makes me die of laughter! I am also lucky to have had 100% positive feedback. Not all adventurers have experienced this. Until the end of my adventure, I only have people who send me messages of love and support. It’s crazy !