Exclusive: 'Survivor: Kaoh Rong' castoff Alecia Holden talks (Part 2)

Survivor: Kaoh Rong -- Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty castaway Alecia Holden was voted out of her To Tang tribe during the most recent broadcast on CBS.


The To Tang tribe (Brawn) ousted Alecia, a 24-year-old real estate agent from Dallas, TX, on Night 11 at the game's fourth Tribal Council session after her tribe lost the Immunity Challenge. Her tribe only has Kyle Jason, Scot Pollard and Cydney Gillon left going forward.

Because Beauty tribe member Caleb Reynolds was medically evacuated from the game at the Reward Challenge, Alecia became the fifth person to leave the game but only the fourth person voted out.

In an exclusive interview with Reality TV World on Thursday, Alecia talked about her Survivor experience and horrible relationship with her tribemates. Below is the concluding portion. Click here to read the first half. 

Reality TV World: Jeff Probst did an interview last week in which he said there wasn't a single good reason for you to tell Cydney Gillon you had found the clue to the idol. Why did you? Because clearly she tricked you, telling you to walk away while she was trying to get it out of the ground, and then she told the guys about it afterward.


Alecia Holden: Sometimes being in the game, things just happen so quickly and you don't really think. And it was just in the moment. It happened and it's definitely one of my biggest regrets in the game.

Reality TV World: Did you feel like Cydney was just in such close proximity to you that you had to share the clue with her, or were you thinking at the time she was a real ally and/or friend to you out there so you wanted to share it?

Alecia Holden: I did feel like we were aligned in the second episode, but I wouldn't have shared the clue. It just happened so fast and I wasn't thinking, you know? I just wasn't thinking.

Reality TV World: Yes, the whole chase for the idol seemed to happen in a flash. The guys beat you to the tree where they got the key down, and you didn't seem to really fight for it at that point. What was happening there?

Alecia Holden: Yeah, that wasn't portrayed at all how it really happened. So, I'm in the water and when [Kyle Jason] starts running, Cydney tells me, she goes, "He's going to get the idol. Run!" And so, Cydney told me that and I took off running.


Me and Jason go back to where Cydney had re-hid the idol, and me and Jason were digging as much as we could in that dirt -- me and him. And after we got done digging, Jason finds it. When him and [Scot Pollard] are in the corner talking, I was trying to cut down the tree with the key box -- wasn't allowed to do that -- I then tried to climb the tree. I get halfway up the tree and the tree starts being flimsy.

When I get down from the tree, Scot knocked it out of the key box and then Jason pushed me with his shoulder, throwing me into rocks. I have scars on my leg from it. And that's when Jason got the key. So it looked like, the way it was portrayed, that I didn't even fight for the idol. But that was not by any means what was happening in reality.

I was extremely frustrated about that as well. I did feel like it kind of made it look like I didn't try, but that's not even what happened! So, you know, [the viewer] doesn't always know what's really happening. So yeah, I was frustrated. I fought a lot harder than people saw for that idol.

Reality TV World: Jason made this lovely little speech about how the tribes become like family and he was going to stick with Cydney until the bitter end when she was sick, basically applying things he learned serving in Iraq to the game. But then why didn't that also apply to you? Despite your differences, why do you think he had such trouble accepting you as a tribemate?

Alecia Holden: I think Jason just always liked to go back to talking about himself, you know? Jason, to me, is all talk. He told us he's some badass bounty hunter who goes and gets all the bad guys, but we had a day where Jason let our chicken loose. Jason let the chicken loose and the "bounty hunter" -- who catches all the bad guys -- couldn't even catch a chicken.


[Darnell Hamilton] caught the chicken. So, you know, I think Jason is all talk with being a badass. It's like, take the diamond earrings out. In my first interview, I said, "All you're selling is 'mall cop,' like, you're not intimidating, you probably roll around on a Segway," I don't know.

Reality TV World: What's the status of your relationship now with Scot and Jason? Have you talked to them at all since the game? Have you sort of patched things up?

Alecia Holden: No, they're unapologetic. I haven't talked to them and I don't plan on doing so.

Reality TV World: When Scot cast his vote for you at Tribal Council, he said he hoped you'd watch the show over and over again and realize your tribemates were actually trying to help you. Does that make sense to you at all? Could you see that perspective?

Alecia Holden: Yeah, I would say, "Yes, Scot, you really tried to help me when I was on the fire for five hours and you were having your naptime. Thanks, champ." That's what I would say to that. Scot never tried to help me. Never tried to help me. So yeah, I would say, "Really, you tried to help me Scot? You were sleeping in the shelter when I was on the fire for five hours. Thanks champ."


Reality TV World: You mentioned at your last Tribal Council that experiences mean more to you than money. So it seemed like you'd be okay getting voted out, but I guess, can you really say you had a good experience playing Survivor? It just seemed like you were the underdog the whole time and the subject of constant criticism.

Alecia Holden: I definitely didn't have a good experience because of my tribemates, but overall, you know, I got an opportunity to do something most people wouldn't. I found myself [challenged] not only mentally and physically, but I also never gave up and didn't cry. So for that, I'm proud of myself.

Reality TV World: The latest episode showed a shot of just you looking emotional when Caleb Reynolds was being airlifted out of the game. What was going through your mind in that moment?

Alecia Holden: I wasn't like crying or anything, but I did notice I looked pretty emotional in that moment. I actually got medical called on me after Caleb went out.

I started shaking really bad and the producers called medical on me, and the doctor had to come over and see me, so maybe I was experiencing some heat stroke as well during that moment, because it was shortly after that producers called the doctor on me. My hands were shaking, I had been throwing up that whole morning from dehydration, and that wasn't shown. So I had been very sick throughout that day as well.


Reality TV World: When did you start feeling better?

Alecia Holden: When I got off the show. (Laughs) I mean, after I made the fire, the guys said they'd get up in the middle of the night to make sure it kept going. I wake up, the fire is gone.

We go into the challenge with no clean water. I woke up throwing up that morning, just sick, and they didn't get another fire from when the first one was made until when I left the game. And Jason sat around trying to make it and would be frustrated he couldn't make it. So yeah.

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

Alecia Holden: It was the first thing that I've ever applied for and within 24 hours they contacted me. They were interested in my video clip... I would definitely, definitely, definitely love to come back someday. If I was asked back, I would pack my bags tomorrow. I didn't have a good tribe this time, but I definitely would love the opportunity to play the game again, and hopefully I'll get that someday

To read the first half of Alecia's exclusive Survivor interview with Reality TV World, click here.






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