Aysha Welch (‘Survivor 47’ exit interview): ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life’
On Wednesday’s third episode of “Survivor 47,” personality conflicts began to create deep divides at the Lavo camp. On a tribe of six that organically divided into three pairs, Aysha Welch found herself attached to the player that had the most friction with the person holding all the advantages and power. Ultimately, when Lavo came up short in the immunity challenge, she paid the “Survivor” price for staying loyal and was voted out. Read on for her “Survivor 47” exit interview from the end of the episode.
Beginning the third cycle of the game as the only tribe still in tact at six players, Lavo was looking good to continue their cohesive play in challenges. But Rome Cooney‘s personality around camp — cockiness about catching fish and then eating an unfair amount of the fish for himself — turned into a burden for Aysha and her closest ally Solomon “Sol” Yi. Sol and Rome even argued about strategies to use in the immunity challenge and though their decision didn’t directly impact their performance, they still lost.
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Back at camp, Teeny Chirichillo and Kishan Patel found themselves in the middle of Sol and Aysha on one side and Rome and Genevieve Mushaluk on the other. They were encouraged to vote with Rome and Genevieve because of the idol and advantage they knew Rome had, making him a more powerful ally and dangerous enemy. Teeny wanted to keep Aysha around, believing that she would be more pliable to work with than Sol, but when Aysha wouldn’t budge in their plan to have her vote against Sol with them, that plan changed and they decided to cut ties with Aysha instead.
Aysha was blindsided by the vote that sent her home, reacting in the moment that it “really hurts, not gonna lie.” In the moment she was surprised that she didn’t have Teeny and Kishan’s trust like she thought, but later was able to reflect with pride that she got as far into the game as she did, all things considered.
“People on TV make ‘Survivor’ look so much easier than it is,” she said. “Day one I was saying this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life and so to be able to last seven days, I really can pat myself on my back. Just having the experience to go from the podcast mic to actually putting my feet in the Fijian sand, it means everything.”
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