Jessica "Figgy" Figueroa was voted out of Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X during Wednesday night's Episode 6 broadcast on CBS.

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Figgy, a 23-year-old bartender from Nashville, TN, became the sixth castaway voted out of Season 33 of Survivor on Night 18 at the game's sixth Tribal Council session. The new Takali tribe, featuring a mix of Gen Xers and millennials, had to vote one of their members off after they lost the Immunity Challenge to the opposing Vanua and Ikabula tribes.

In addition to Figgy, her tribe was comprised of Taylor Stocker, a 24-year-old ski instructor from Post Falls, ID; Adam Klein, a 25-year-old homeless shelter manager from San Francisco, CA; Jessica Lewis, a 37-year-old assistant district attorney from Voorheesville, NY; and Ken McNickle, a 33-year-old model from Denver, CO.

In an exclusive interview with Reality TV World on Thursday, Figgy talked about her Survivor experience. Below is the concluding portion. Check our Survivor page for the first half.

Reality TV World: When you left the game, did you think Taylor was definitely going to be the next person to go, or could you see Adam trying to work with him again as long as Taylor could get past the betrayal and a desire to seek revenge?

Figgy: If Taylor wanted to stay in the game and I looked at Tayls and I said, "Good luck, Tay, you gotta win." Adam saying to him at Tribal, "I'm going to explain to you if I even can," like, he wants to work with him. Adam genuinely cared about me.

He genuinely loved me towards the end no matter what was portrayed or what is shown. We were building up an alliance and a really great friendship towards that, and then he voted my ass out, and then it all went downhill from there.

But, you know, he definitely can probably work with Taylor again, I think. I think it's very possible. I think Taylor is bitter right now, but I think that if Taylor can come around, I think Taylor still has life left in this game.

Reality TV World: What's the status of your relationship with Taylor now? I recall you joking about wanting to find your future husband on Survivor, so what happened between you two after the show?

Figgy: Yeah, so, if I'm Rose [from Titanic] and I could let Jack on the door that I'm laying on, I would not let Taylor on the door. I would let him go, (laughs) and let him just sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Reality TV World: This doesn't sound good. (Laughs)

Figgy: We are happily married! No. We are not together. But it's for the better. We just had -- I just learned a lot about him outside of the game, and it's just a real-life situation interfered with what we had on the island when we came out [of the game]. And it is what it is.

Reality TV World: Sorry to hear that!

Figgy: It's okay.

Reality TV World: Was there any talk you were aware of about hidden Immunity Idols at camp? Did you have any idea or at least suspect Adam had found one?

Figgy: Early on, there was speculation when we were all searching for idols back with the millennials that either [Zeke Smith] or Adam had an idol. This was way back even before Adam had one. There were just rumors.

So, we all kind of speculated that he might have one, but we didn't know that he actually had one like right before the whole swap situation. He ended up finding that one on the beach in a shell, and we didn't see that coming. We didn't know that he had that at all.

Reality TV World: When you said out loud at the Reward Challenge that you loved [Michelle Schubert] and were sad you two were split up, did you think at the time there might be any consequences of that statement? Based on comments Zeke made in last night's episode, it seemed to put a bigger target on Michelle's back.

Figgy: Yeah, but see, that would've been a good thing for me if we would've made the merge together. Because, you know, I'm hated. I'm not liked by these people. They know that I'm strategizing, they know that I'm running Taylor and have him on a little leash and I'm just dragging him around. They know that about me.

But then I'm also working with Michelle, who's great at puzzles and who is this really honest, good person. And she was working with me. So the fact that I'm more of a, I don't know, they wouldn't have as much respect for me, I guess, as they would have for Michelle come challenges.

So that put more of a target on her back if it would've been a merge situation, and that's in my best interest. I wasn't planning that at first. I was like, "Oh sh-t, what did I do?!" But then when I got back to camp, I'm like, "Okay, well if I make it out, this is actually not bad for me."

So, it would've been bad for her and I love her to death, but it probably would've been better for my game -- and even Zeke's game. I mean, he even said it. I was like, "F-ck, I shot myself in the foot, but I only shot one of my feet." I shot both of Michelle's feet, probably, so.

Reality TV World: So you think Michelle would be your shield.

Figgy: Exactly! She would totally be used as a shield for me.

Reality TV World: When Michaela Bradshaw said she didn't need to help the millennials on your tribe during the Immunity Challenge because you had the majority and should be able to figure things out for yourselves, do you think she meant that or was secretly hoping you or Taylor would go home since you two never really got along?

Figgy: Yeah, so she definitely helped out Vanua obviously, and then when she said her little comment, she was like, "Well, there's three millennials and two Gen X. If ya'll don't figure out how to get along then you don't deserve to be here."

That's all bullsh-t. The thing is, obviously you don't like me and you don't like Taylor. She hated both of us. She's not going to help us because let's be honest, if it was about the f-cking numbers, Ikabula would've thrown the first two challenges.

And then they would've kicked ass from there, you know what I mean? And then the millennials would've thrown the next one and so on and so forth -- or Takali would have thrown the one after the Ikabula one.

So it's like, if it's about numbers, we would've actually f-cking thrown challenges. And nobody did that, so it was never about the f-cking numbers, it was about who liked whom and who you wanted to keep around. And you obviously wanted to take me out, and lucky for her, it f-cking worked.

Reality TV World: In the general sense, do you think it was a bad move for Michaela to voice such loyalty to the millennials? Because don't you think that would ruin her chances of ever working with a Gen Xer down the road if she needed to?

Figgy: I think so, but Michaela is pretty damn smart. She's good at challenges, she knows what she's doing, so I think she could probably get out of the situation. But it will be interesting to see her gameplay after that.

Reality TV World: There was a little debate last night about how dangerous a romantic couple in the game is vs a strategic one like Ken and Jessica. What's your take on the subject? Did you really consider your relationship with Taylor to be equal to Jessica and Ken's? Because that was your argument at Tribal.

Figgy: No, not at all. I mean, ours was romantic; Ken and Jessica's was obviously not. But again, you have two thinkers and you have one thinker with me. So, it's like, what do you do? So, I didn't see us even remotely close to a Ken and Jess, but they're also not a power couple.

That's an alliance, you know what I mean? So it's just like Survivor verbiage is all over the place. But Ken and Jessica are definitely way smarter than Adam is making them out to be.

Reality TV World: How were you cast on Survivor? How did you end up on the show?

Figgy: I applied last September. I sent in a video. My sister gave me a Survivor buff a long time ago and I absolutely loved Survivor since she gave it to me. I wore it out all the time and this little girl asked me if I had ever been on the show, and I said, "No."

But then I was like, "I would be really damn good at that show if I applied." So I was already a fan and said for years that I was going to apply, but I just never had the appointment to apply and all of this stuff, and spend money to travel to an open casting.

So I sent in a video and I guess they liked what they saw! And then they got a little bit of Figgy on there! So I lucked out and hopefully this isn't the last that you'll see of me.


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