“Survivor 50” star Emily Flippen blamed her “messy” gameplay for screwing over her allies Christian Hubicki, Rick Devens and Dee Valladares.
“There’s three people in particular that I feel like I did really dirty,” the financial analyst exclusively told Page Six on Thursday.
Flippen said she hurt Hubicki, 40, by constantly spilling his secrets to the other players.
“He was so forgiving and graceful with all the mistakes that I was making,” she said. “And while I did own up to them and apologize, he did not have to work with me. But he chose to.”
She continued, “And I feel bad. He was playing a great strategic game, especially when it applied to things like Aubry’s idol, that it seemed like at every turn I was blowing up. Not intentionally, but totally inadvertently.”
Flippen said being “a mess” harmed Devens, as well, since they were so closely associated.
“I always wondered if he managed to separate himself from me, would his game be better?” she said.
Flippen noted that Devens, 42, is now in a bad spot since they failed to vote out Cirie Fields on last night’s episode.
Flippen explained, “Now he has to go back to camp without me there. Having just voted for Cirie, he could have just voted me off with everybody else. He sacrificed some of his own social capital for me.”
Last but not least, Flippen feels responsible for Valladares, 29, getting eliminated after telling Rizo Velovic she heard about his Hidden Immunity Idol from the Season 45 winner.
“I did not realize that I had done Dee that dirty,” Flippen admitted. “I wanted to work with her. I didn’t realize that I threw her under the bus like that. I genuinely thought Rizo’s idol was public knowledge.”
“So I feel incredibly guilty and apologetic over that.”
Flippen acknowledged that she kept making “impulsive” moves that were “hurting her allies.”
“I quite literally speak before I think,” she said. “I think that’s the reason why I got cast on ‘Survivor’ in the first place. That’s what was constantly happening to me on Season 50.”
“It was my own bed and I just had to lie in it…I should say, it seemed like my allies had to lie in it, too,” she added. “And that’s awful. I feel awful for the pain that I caused them.”
But Flippen confirmed Hubicki, Devens and Valladares have all forgiven her.
“They’re the kindest, most forgiving people in the world,” she told us. “And I’m so thankful that the people I was working with are as kind as they are, because they don’t have to be. They had every right to be angry with me.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
