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JENNA MORASCA BOWS OUT ~Recap~

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kcat444:
I agree with Alicia; but I NEVER would have said it out loud to Jenna's face while she's standing there crying.  I think Rupurt thought the same thing; but he managed to state his feelings in a better way. I admired Kathy for sticking up for Jenna in the heat of the moment.  I wonder if they will reveal the death of Jenna's mom to the others.  Would that be 3 episodes from now ???

WENDY:
Well, it would be 8 days... so probably 3 episodes from now.. .I doubt they will (but you never know) because then everyone would start freaking out about their families and want to go home..... Wouldn't you? I know I would... it would scare me.  :-[

puddin:
 
 From the Early Show
 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/12/earlyshow/series/survivor/main599973.shtml

Jenna M. Bows Out
 
 
(CBS) Former "Survivor" champ Jenna Morasca, who turns 23 on Sunday, Feb. 15, made an unexpected and unforgettable decision on "Survivor: All-Stars." She stunned her Mogo Mogo tribe by becoming only the second player ever to quit the game. At the end of the show, viewers learned that Jenna rushed to her mother's side. Eight days later, her mother lost her 12-year battle with cancer.

On Friday, she told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith that she knew it was imperative for her to leave the game when she did.

"It was just a feeling that I never had before," she said. "It was like a premonition. I just felt like I was being pulled out of there. Me and my mom are really close... I knew that I had to go with my gut. It was a very hard decision to make."

Jenna explained that she and her mother had talked before she decided to sign up for "All-Stars." Her mother, Jenna said, was a big fan of the show, recalling, "She said, 'Go. Don't worry about me. Everything will be fine.' So I went. My mind has been dealing with this for 12 years, so it's not new for me to live this life... I was worried, but I just
had to keep going. And she's like 'I'll be fine.'

"But with cancer," Jenna continued, "sometimes you suddenly take a turn. And that's what happened to her."

When Jenna announced her decision to all the players and to host Jeff Probst, he asked other played to weigh in and, Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen commented, "Alicia was kind of harsh." (Alicia told Jenna, "You shouldn't have even been here.")

Harsh, yes, Jenna told Chen, "But that's Alicia... I wonder if they wouldn't have done what I did in my situation. And they don't know what it's like. And I would never want them to know what it's like. So it's a lot different to try to make an opinion based on having no idea how it feels."

Her own tribe was supportive of her decision, she said, and certain people from the opposing tribes became very emotional as they bade her farewell. "They got pretty worked up about it," she recalled. "That really meant a lot to me, too."

When Jenna did get home, her mother was not talking.

"The night I got home, she stopped eating and drinking," Jenna recalled. "She wasn't speaking but I kind of like whispered that 'I'm home.' She kind of let out this big sigh, like a big, deep breath. She didn't talk at all or speak or kind of wake up after that."

Yet, she said, she feels that her mother was waiting for her to come home.

In response to a viewer's question, Jenna said that, if she had stuck around, she probably would have allied herself with Shii Ann, Kathy and Lex. And as for Richard's habit of staying naked, Jenna pointed out, "I really don't have that much room to talk. If he wants to be naked, then that's the way he wants to be, then it really didn't bother me. I think, like Colby said on one of the shows, it's kind of scarier we got used to it and it's not a big deal of him doing it."

And finally a called from Washington, D.C., wanted to know if Jenna feels bad now about "the shallow comments you had made about you and Heidi being the prettiest girls, the sexiest girls and demeaning the older ladies" when they were on "Survivor: Amazon."

Jenna's reply: "I'll never live that down. You know what, a lot of the comments weren't directly from me. But I don't know. I don't know if I feel bad because -- I feel bad for making some of the comments that were inappropriate, but I did it and I can't take it back, and I was a lot different person thn than I am now. I was really immature, really young and I didn't know any better."

WENDY:
I am glad Jenna got to go home.... Thanks for posting that. It made me feel a little better for her....

Texan:
I feel for her...but have to admit I probably would not have gone again.  If I had won before.  However everyone makes their own decisions of their own reasons.

I did think it was interesting that they only chose to show certain people's comments.  And as much as people say things about Richard ~ The father figure in him had his hand on her shoulder most of the time in support while the others were talking.  Good for her team for supporting her when they knew it would probably hurt them .

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