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" As one of Big Brother 13&amp;#039;s returning players, it wasn&amp;#039;t long before Rachel Reilly found a target on her back and she began facing the possibility of eviction alongside fianc\u00E9 and fellow player Brendon Villegas weekly. While often criticised for her drama queen behaviour and her tantrums towards former alliance member Daniele Donato, the 28-year-old somehow always managed to fight back, winning several Head of Household and Power of Veto competitions to not only keep herself in the game but to remain there until the final two, where she was voted the winner by her former houseguests and handed the $500,000 prize.  Here&amp;#039;s what Rachel told Digital Spy about her time on the show.  What was it like to hear Julie announce your name as the winner? &amp;quot;Oh my God, it was a really crazy summer. It was so tough! I&amp;#039;ve had the rollercoaster ride from Big Brother and, you know, I fought really hard. Everything I did this summer, I put my entire heart into it. I wore my heart on my sleeve and I think everyone saw that so I think it was a really fun, crazy experience. I can&amp;#039;t believe I won!&amp;quot; You said in one of your last VTs that you would consider breaking your final two deal with Porsche if you won that last HoH. How close did you actually come to choosing Adam? &amp;quot;You know, I really considered it because it came down to game. It was like, do I want to win the game and $500,000 and do I want to risk taking second place, breaking the deal with Porsche, or do I want to stay true to my word? It was really tough and I almost changed it at the last minute. I didn&amp;#039;t know what to do but I made that final two deal with Porsche and I had enough confidence in my gameplay and I really felt like I earned my spot there. I was nominated more than anyone else, I fought my whole summer and was a huge target. I won four HoHs, two PoVs. I felt like I could really go up against Porsche and beat her and if not, it came down to the jury. I can&amp;#039;t believe it was so close!&amp;quot;  When Brendon left, you were devastated. What was it that helped you sort of pick yourself up and keep fighting? &amp;quot;You know, I think what it was is that when Brendon left the first time, I just totally lost it. I was an emotional basket case. I was crying all the time, I was so upset. I just thought I couldn&amp;#039;t do it and then Brendon came back - thank you, America! - and he got voted out the second time. Of course I was crushed but I was like, &amp;#039;Forget this. These people aren&amp;#039;t going to take me down without a fight and if I get evicted, I do, but I&amp;#039;m going to fight my heart out&amp;#039;. And then right after Brendon left, Jeff left so it was really tough for Jordan and me. But I thought, &amp;#039;Jordan is my girl and we are not gonna leave the house without a fight&amp;#039;, and I had to look after both of us. I just had that fire. I think it&amp;#039;s the passion - it&amp;#039;s not just about wanting to win the game, it&amp;#039;s about wanting to fight to be there and I think that really came out in my gameplay at the end of the summer.&amp;quot;  You very famously didn&amp;#039;t get along with Daniele. Is there any hope for a reconciliation between the two of you? &amp;quot;Well, hey, I would never say never! Regan and I are best friends now - he&amp;#039;s gonna be in my wedding and he was my arch nemesis last summer. I think that, you know, Daniele and I have a great chance of being friends. What had happened is that Daniele turned on us and our alliance and she really let us down. Daniele and I were friends in the beginning of the summer until week three when she thought of this backdooring Jeff plan. I think we would have kept being friends otherwise but she just kind of turned on us. And that&amp;#039;s how we were playing the game. I&amp;#039;m sure Daniele and I will talk and it&amp;#039;ll be all better, but who knows? But we have a lot of talking to do!&amp;quot;  Facing so much criticism and being on the chopping block so often, when did you finally start to think that you had a chance of winning? &amp;quot;I am so shocked that I won! I am freaking out right now. I don&amp;#039;t think that I realised I had a real chance of winning the game until last night after I won that HoH. When I won that last part, I thought, &amp;#039;Oh my God, I might win the game&amp;#039;, and that&amp;#039;s the first time that I thought that this summer. I had no clue that I would make it this far. Every week I was packing my bags, I was thinking, I give up and want to go home. I started packing my bags during the double eviction, I thought I was going to go home. Every week that I didn&amp;#039;t get evicted, I was like, &amp;#039;I don&amp;#039;t know what I did but thank you!&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Everyone started to turn against you pretty early on. Do you think they were justified in branding you a drama queen? &amp;quot;Oh yeah, girl! I know what I do! I don&amp;#039;t think they should have turned on me as much as they did but I think it was easy for them to have a scapegoat. People started to want to look for reasons to see why the game wasn&amp;#039;t going the way they wanted to go so they looked at me. I had already won two HoHs at that point so I already had blood on my hands. I was being a little mouthy at the beginning of the summer and was maybe rubbing it in everyone&amp;#039;s faces a little bit, not really trying to but maybe flaunting it a bit. &amp;quot;I think in the beginning of the summer when everyone started turning against me, it was really warranted. But after I started realising what I was doing, I really changed. I had to snap to it and realise that if I didn&amp;#039;t start to get my game together, I was going to be in the jury house. I didn&amp;#039;t want that, I wanted to keep fighting, so I knew I had to change my game and start making more friends and alliances and really work on everything.&amp;quot; How did this year differ from last year? &amp;quot;The biggest is that in season 12, Brendon and I fought by ourselves - we didn&amp;#039;t have an alliance and had no one working with us. This season, we had people that were on our side. We had Jeff and Jordan and Jeff was one of the strongest competitors in the house. We had a great alliance, we had a team that we were working with and that really changed a lot. &amp;quot;In the beginning of the season I think I was still playing like it was season 12 with the same houseguests but it wasn&amp;#039;t. When I finally started feeling comfortable with my alliance and myself, that&amp;#039;s when I started to get my game together socially. And then when Brendon and Jeff went, I just wanted to fight for me and Jordan. I would have loved for me and Jordan to be in the final two as that was my plan all along but I&amp;#039;m happy that I won!&amp;quot;   You&amp;#039;ll definitely go down in history for coining the term &amp;quot;floaters&amp;quot;. What is it about those players you dislike so much and can you not view that as another approach to playing? &amp;quot;I can see it as a type of gameplay, but Adam needed to grab, like, a raft becuse he was the biggest floater in Big Brother history. It was ridiculous! The reason I don&amp;#039;t respect that type of gameplay is because fighting as hard as I do and being a target every week... if I didn&amp;#039;t win something, I was nominated and was a target to go home. So for me, when you&amp;#039;re fighting that hard to be in the game and not just for yourself - I was fighting with Brendon and Jeff and Jordan - to me, a floater like Adam I just can&amp;#039;t respect it because they go from side to side. They think they have this great social game but what they&amp;#039;re doing is going with the power. They&amp;#039;re weak players and can&amp;#039;t win in the competition so they&amp;#039;re never a target. &amp;quot;What I said to Daniele in the beginning of the season was that we needed to get out floaters and then battle it out. But sometimes competitors want to take out other competitors and you see what happened - first Brendon went out, then Daniele, then Jeff and that&amp;#039;s how the season turned out. I think there was a lot of bad gameplay this summer but there&amp;#039;s also been a lot of gameplay that we kind of fixed.&amp;quot; What will you do with your $500,000 prize? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so excited! Dream wedding, obviously. This morning on The Talk I won a honeymoon so I&amp;#039;m so excited about that. I think we&amp;#039;re going to look into putting a down payment on a home and starting our future together. Brendon is a grad student so we&amp;#039;re broke as it is but this is amazing. We&amp;#039;re going to have an opportunity to start our lives together and plan our future and in a few years we can start a family. I couldn&amp;#039;t imagine a better ending to my Big Brother experience. I met my fianc\u00E9 in season 12 and in season 13, I won!&amp;quot;  Big Brother airs on CBS  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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