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Genevieve Mushaluk’s “uncomfortable” relationship with Aubry Bracco on “Survivor 50” has not been resolved since leaving the island.
Mushaluk exclusively spoke to Page Six about her rivalry with Bracco after she was voted out on Wednesday’s episode.
“I was an Aubry fan coming into it,” the “Survivor 47” alum told us. “And then when we got put together, first thing she says to me is like, ‘Oh my God, I love you so much. You got me back into Survivor.'”
Mushaluk, 34, said that she initially felt “amazing” about the prospect of aligning with Bracco, 39, expecting that the pair could “do some damage together.”
But “within the first day or two,” Mushaluk said that several of her allies warned her that Bracco was telling people she’s a “scary” player that they need to “watch out for.”
“But to my face [she was] being so nice,” Mushaluk recalled. “So then you see that awkward conversation. And she was just like not feeling it.”
“So I don’t know what I did. Maybe the first thing she said to me wasn’t sincere or I did something after that, I genuinely don’t know. But from that point on it was like, ‘Oh yeah, this person does not mess with me.'”
Mushaluk also said that Bracco hasn’t given her much insight into their tense dynamic since they got home from Fiji in July.
“The only thing that she has said is that it was like all out of respect,” Mushaluk told us.
“But, I don’t know… respect maybe is so different in Canada. It was uncomfortable. So I don’t know,” she added.
Looking back on her game, Mushaluk revealed there was a secret plan to get Bracco or her ally Tiffany Nicole Ervin voted out by throwing a challenge.
“The challenge where I was swapped and Tiffany did the ropes really quick, we were trying to throw that challenge,” she explained. “Joe is moving slowly, I’m swimming slowly.”
“Or plan was flush Aubry’s idol and ultimately vote Tiffany out,” Mushaluk continued. “So as much as everybody thinks, ‘Oh yeah, you’re going for Aubry,’ it’s like, ‘No, no, no.’ I was much more afraid of other people, and Tiffany being one of them because she’s an incredible and a very capable ‘Survivor’ player.”
But the plan fell apart when Ervin “beasted the challenge” and their tribe won immunity.
“We would have had to swim backwards to go the other direction because she just made up so much time,” Mushaluk noted.
The corporate lawyer also believes that if production didn’t divide the final 17 players into three random groups, she would’ve made it deeper into the game.
“Had we gone to a large merge tribal like normal, I genuinely believe odds are it would have been okay,” she said. “The thing that went wrong is this pink rock. I’m so mad at the color pink. Like for so long now because of that rock draw. It was trash.”
Mushaluk added, “But also, that’s ‘Survivor,’ baby, you know what I mean? You don’t get to pick. Sometimes you’re lucky and sometimes you’re on the beach with everybody who hates you.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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