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Tribal Lie Detecting with Sierra Reed of Survivor Tocantins

After nearly receiving her tribal walking papers a week earlier on Survivor Tocantins, former Timbira tribe member, Sierra Reed, lived to outwit and outplay for another day when the merged Forza tribe took their focus off of Sierra to blindside Tyson Apostol. Although there wasn't much Sierra could do to win over her Tocantins tribe, she did manage to call out Coach in an effort to catch the tall tale telling soccer coach in a lie.

Despite the fact that her days on Survivor Tocantins were numbered, Sierra's confrontation with Coach gave her Forza tribe mates something more to think about before her Tocantins torch was eventually extinguished by Jeff Probst, making Sierra Reed the third member of the Survivor Tocantins jury.

Although Sierra started this season of Survivor at a disadvantage, dropped off in Brazil while nursing a cold, she did overcome the odds to survive, shake up the game, form a secret alliance, and make it all the way to becoming a Tocantins jury member.

The morning after Sierra was voted out of Survivor Tocantins, we caught up with the Los Angeles model to learn why her alliance with Brendan fell idle, what she thought of the surprise blindside of Tyson, and how she felt about Coach while she was in the heat of Survivor Tocantins action.

THE DEADBOLT: How shocked and excited were you at tribal council last week?

SIERRA REED: Oh, gosh! When Tyson went home, I think the facial expressions say it all. I exhaled right there. I could not believe that they took out Tyson. It was a really brilliant move and I wish my tribe would’ve been smart enough to get out of the stupid warrior alliance and be smart enough to take out the strongest player. It’s a strategy and I was very relieved, especially after he ran his mouth the whole entire day. And I wasn’t even going to vote for him, to tell you the truth.

That night I told him, ‘Look, when we go to tribal council, don’t be a jerk to me. Just let me go quietly and I’ll be fine. Don’t frigging stir my pot.’ The moment we get there, he does, so I vote for him and call him a jerk. And the funny thing is, he goes home packing. So I got the last laugh.

THE DEADBOLT: You never seemed to bounce back from the very beginning when you were sick, and everyone seemed to look at you as being weak. What was your original strategy to begin with?

SIERRA: My original strategy was to go into the game and pick out someone. Gosh, I only had three days to do it. Because by then I was scrambling to pick someone I thought I could take to the very end and be completely honest with them, and trustworthy with them the whole way through, and kind of protect each other, which is what I did with Brendan. I think that I wasn’t looked at as weak after I basically kicked all the guy’s butts, except for maybe Brendan, Tyson, and J.T. I mean, everybody else I did really well in challenges. I don’t think I was perceived as weak unless I was sick, which was in the beginning.

THE DEADBOLT: In your opinion, what went wrong with that secret alliance that you had with Brendan?

SIERRA: This is the one move that I would’ve changed in the show, and that is we hadn’t spoken for ten days. So when Stephen and Taj came over and we all merged together, me and Brendan should’ve immediately walked over to her and said, ‘Look, we’re still on the same page. I know we haven’t talked for a while, but we’re both in it with you. We’re still both sitting on the idols and we’re still going to take this to the end.’

But Brendan went on reward and, gosh, there’s a video of me on CBS saying, ‘You know what? I should go up to Taj right now and tell her - it’s okay, it’s okay.’ And I waited for Brendan in case he had said something that would contradict my statement, which, if I went over there and said something that contradicted him, it would make her not believe us. So I was very [unsure] about how I should speak to her and I wish I would have, because in not doing so she scrambled very fast and changed her mind and it was too late.

THE DEADBOLT: Actually, when I was speaking to Brendan, he said he had regrets for not throwing you the idol when he was walking away.

SIERRA: Oh, that’s really sweet. I feel a little bit better [laughs]. But he’s not allowed to, that’s why. They’re not allowed to throw the idol to you after they’re voted out.

THE DEADBOLT: What’s your overall impression of Coach?

SIERRA: My overall impression of Coach is definitely - There’s two different impressions: There’s the one you don’t see, deep down inside, and then there’s Coach. Coach is a liar. I don’t think he means to be a liar, I think he loves to tell tall stories and loves to believe them in his mind. It’s an adventure. It’s a journey whenever he tells a story and he feels like he’s experiencing it with whoever he’s telling it to.

I think he played it up a lot for the camera. There are parts of him that are completely obnoxious. But I think last night, you know, proclaiming yourself to be the most honest person in Survivor history is something you should not do if Sierra is going to come after you and out you. You know what I mean? I think it was a really bad move for him to say he wasn’t going to lie, and he was going to change the game, because I was going to do everything I possibly could to make sure if I was leaving that they would know he was completely full of B.S.

THE DEADBOLT: How did you and Tyson get along at Ponderosa?

SIERRA: Tyson and I? You can go watch it on CBS.com. We poured a vat of olive oil down a slip and slide and ate all day long, and slip slide in the river, and let bygones be bygones.

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