Jessica "Figgy" Figueroa has updated Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X fans on whether her love story with fellow castaway Taylor Stocker is still being written.
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Figgy and Taylor engaged in a showmance on Survivor's 33rd season that was obvious to their tribemates even when the pair of millennials were trying to keep their romantic relationship under wraps.
When Figgy got voted out of the game on Wednesday night's episode, she admitted in her final words she'd miss hanging out with Taylor, a 24-year-old snowboarding instructor from Postfalls, ID, but hoped they could reunite in the future.
So did the couple rekindle their romance after filming Survivor, and are they still together?
During an exclusive interview with Reality TV World on Thursday, Figgy admitted things didn't work out for the lovebirds. In fact, it sounds like their relationship went down in flames.
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"We're happily married!" Figgy said with enthusiastic sarcasm. "No, we are not together."
Figgy, a 23-year-old bartender from Nashville, TN, compared the end of her romance to the famous scene in the 1997 film Titanic when, after the boat sank, Rose -- played by Kate Winslet -- found a floating door in the ocean to lie on so that her body was not engulfed in the freezing water. Her true love, Jack, only had enough room on the door to rest his arms so that his neck and shoulders were out of the water.
"If I'm Rose and I could let Jack on the door that I'm laying on, I would not let Taylor on the door," Figgy told Reality TV World with a laugh.
And when it became time for Rose's rescue, Jack had already freezed to death. Rose therefore released Jack -- played by Leonardo DiCaprio -- into the ocean after metaphorically promising him, "I'll never let go."
"I would let him go and let him just sink to the bottom of the ocean," Figgy confessed. "But it's for the better."
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Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X wrapped filming in mid-May, so something bad clearly happened within the last five months.
"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," Figgy explained. "It's okay."
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