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"Staking her claim early on, Brenda Lowe quickly formed what would become Survivor: Nicaragua&amp;#039;s strongest alliance not only within the La Flor tribe but in the game at large. However, having such power put a target on her back and it wasn&amp;#039;t long before the decision was made by her friends and enemies alike to vote her out during last night&amp;#039;s Tribal Council. We caught up with the 27-year-old Florida native as she discussed her time on the show and where it all went wrong.  Did Sash&amp;#039;s decision not to hand over the immunity idol change your opinion of him? &amp;quot;No, because we&amp;#039;re both kind of the same player and I probably wouldn&amp;#039;t have done it either. He would have given up something so huge in the game so I respect what he did and don&amp;#039;t feel anything bad about it. As for going into Tribal Council, it was my hope that he might have given it to me and I held onto that hope. I thought maybe his trust in me would inspire him to keep me around because of my loyalty but that obviously didn&amp;#039;t happen.&amp;quot; How do you make sense of being thrown under the bus by Naonka? &amp;quot;Part of it makes sense but what people didn&amp;#039;t see is when Sash went off to the reward with the guys, Naonka pulled him aside. I had told her that depending on what he&amp;#039;d said, we would have to decide if we could trust him or not. She wanted to know if I was sure that I would take out Sash and I said I would do whatever we had to do and then she went and told Sash. She turned on me - she didn&amp;#039;t trust me enough to want to keep me any longer.&amp;quot; Why do you think she turned on you so suddenly? &amp;quot;What people don&amp;#039;t see is the sweet side of Naonka! She&amp;#039;s a good person, sweet, gentle, caring, funny - all those things that made me want to be a friend to her. To have someone like her who&amp;#039;s crazy and to have it backfire, sure, I should have seen it a mile away. We were friends and I never thought it would happen to me. Sure, she was a bomb ready to explode but I thought I could trust her. I didn&amp;#039;t have a problem trusting people out there.&amp;quot; What was it about Marty that you had such a problem with? Did you ever consider bringing him into your alliance? &amp;quot;That was a misconception! Towards the end, especially with Jane&amp;#039;s obsession with him, it became more and more clear that I&amp;#039;d rather have had him around than Jane. I know that voting Marty out was the beginning of the end for me and the only reason that I did it was to remain loyal to my alliance. I would have rather voted out Jane and things would have been different for me now, I felt it. It was the only vote I was uncomfortable about and I&amp;#039;m paying for it now.&amp;quot; Marty mentioned that he believed that your and Sash&amp;#039;s power in the game was more circumstantial than a result of smart gameplaying. How do you think you came into such a position? &amp;quot;I do agree that there&amp;#039;s a certain amount of luck that goes into Survivor. One thing you can&amp;#039;t disagree with, though, is that if you are in that position, you have to think about what to do with it. I think Sash and I made some good moves with the power that fell into our laps. We took out Marty, we took out Jill. We worked together and did stuff. Yes, it was my downfall that I didn&amp;#039;t anticipate people to be playing the game as hard as I was - specifically Holly and Naonka. I do think we deserve some amount of merit for what we did.&amp;quot; What do you make of Chase&amp;#039;s total trust in you? &amp;quot;In the beginning, we were really bonded tightly from day one. It was very natural and very sweet - I was never playing him. I felt that he was sweet and genuine and I know it&amp;#039;s the corniest line in the whole world but I liked his spirit! I really felt it. He really wanted to play with someone he trusted and he found that trust in me.&amp;quot; What actions did you take to try and save yourself from elimination? &amp;quot;The only people that could save me were the people I looked at from the beginning of the game - Chase and Sash. Let&amp;#039;s get real here, everyone else wanted me long gone. The only people that could save me was my alliance and I tried to make it clear that the rest of the group were targeting them by targeting me. I tried to show them that I was loyal to them to the last minute. That was my fight.&amp;quot; What happened with the fire at camp? &amp;quot;I love fires! I&amp;#039;m like a little pyromaniac and was part of the fire patrol on the show. When it came to protecting it, we did - we put the chests around it and protected it from the rain. Jane put more wood on it, which wasn&amp;#039;t a good move and that&amp;#039;s what made it go up. The embers would still have been there when we got back and we could have started a new fire. It wasn&amp;#039;t intentional at all, it was just bad thinking and everything burned.&amp;quot; If you hadn&amp;#039;t been eliminated, what would your gameplan have been going forward? &amp;quot;You have to be flexible on a show like Survivor but I was very keen on keeping the final five, which was me, Sash, Kelly Purple, Naonka and Chase. We were always talking about that - some people were talking about final three but I was up in the air about it. I think I would have taken Kelly Purple and Naonka to the end though because that would have been a guaranteed win for me. Still, I think I would have been willing to go with anyone.&amp;quot; What move do you regret the most? &amp;quot;Definitely letting Naonka have the immunity idol! I could have found it myself - I looked for it in the middle of the night when no-one was there, not even the cameras. When we did find it, obviously it was still early in the morning, as you saw. It was do or die - we had to get it then or we weren&amp;#039;t going to and Kelly B and Alina would have. Everyone knew that we had a clue, it was obvious in the tribe. If people knew we were going to get it, I wanted Naonka to have the target on her back since I already had one on mine. It was still within the alliance, but that was wishful thinking because you never have it unless it&amp;#039;s in your pocket.&amp;quot; Survivor: Nicaragua continues Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS &amp;gt; Click here to read our recap of the latest episode "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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