Survivor winner Rachel LaMont has revealed what she lied about during jury questioning at the Final Tribal Council on Night 26.

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During the Final Tribal Council, Gabe Ortis asked the Final 3 castaways -- Rachel, Sam Phalen and Sue Smey -- how they thought their game would be remembered and if that was even important to them.

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Rachel replied at the time, "I think my game will be remembered as someone who fell on their face pretty hard and had the ability to adapt and go from the most underdog and the most left-out person in this entire room to someone that became a threat."

"And as much as that does matter, I didn't come in trying to have a Survivor legacy; I came in to play Survivor. So, no, I don't really care how I will be remembered."

And then Sam went on to admit, "It does matter to me how my game is remembered. I want to leave feeling proud of myself and have other people admire me, in a way."

When looking back on her statement, Rachel told Entertainment Weekly in a post-finale interview, "Gabe asked the question about legacy at the Final Tribal, and I leaned over, I was sitting next to him at the finale and I was like, 'I think I was lying,' but I was like, 'I don't care.'"

"Of course you care!" clarified the 34-year-old graphic designer who currently resides in Southfield, MI.

"I think what I meant was I didn't come out here to play a certain way to have a certain legacy."

Rachel reiterated how she flew to Fiji to play the game of Survivor and hopefully win it.

"But that doesn't mean that at the end of the day, I don't care about how I'll be remembered," Rachel noted.

Rachel acknowledged that since she's "a huge Survivor fan," she "of course" wants viewers to respect her game and think she's deserving of the $1 million.

"I want to be somebody that people are like, 'She's the worthy winner. She's a good winner. That season was great,'" Rachel admitted.

"I want that just as much as anybody else."

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Jeff told EW that Rachel was one of the "best overall players" of all time, and so Rachel gushed about how that was "amazing" to hear.

"To hear Jeff say that just made my [day]," Rachel concluded.

Rachel also revealed that she'd definitely play Survivor again, if given the opportunity.

"This is the most incredible adventure," Rachel said.

"I still think all the time about just sitting on Beka beach in the dirt with my friends around the campfire playing a crazy game. And if they called, of course I would go."

Rachel won Survivor through a 7-1 jury vote against Sam, a 24-year-old sports reporter from Schaumburg, IL, at the Final Tribal Council session on Night 26 of the game.

Kyle Ostwald was the only Survivor juror who voted for Sam to win, and Sue Smey placed third with zero jury votes during Survivor's two-hour finale that aired on Wednesday, December 18 on CBS.

At the Final Tribal Council, Sam suggested that Rachel got to the end with Immunity necklaces and luck, such as when she had received an idol clue in her fries at the Survivor auction.

Sam argued that Rachel had lost a lot of strategic and social agency as the game progressed and so she had to rely on wins and advantages.

"I got voted for more than anybody here," Sam boasted to the jury.

"I'm the only one in the game that never voted incorrectly, I was voted for at four different Tribal Councils, and I received a total of 10 votes throughout this game. You, [Rachel], were the one who said multiple times, 'I need him out of this game. He's a threat.'"

When Jeff read the jury votes aloud in Fiji, Rachel confessed she was "the most scared" she had been all week long.

"My stomach was in complete knots and, truly, there's a part of me that was like, 'I think I might've just lost.' So the confidence really wavered throughout those last couple days," Rachel said.

Rachel recalled how the pressure she felt during that Final Tribal Council was "unlike anything that I've ever felt in my life."

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Rachel elaborated, "It is this culmination of you've spent 26 days struggling every day, and you're finally here at the end and you think you can do it, but if you screw up right now, everything was for nothing."

She added, "The pressure of that is so immense and to have it actually work out and I won Survivor... I think I just blacked out at that point."
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