‘Survivor 50’ star Ozzy Lusth just dropped a BOMBSHELL — revealing the shocking reason behind his elimination from Survivor 50
Survivor 50’s Ozzy Lusth, who returned for his fifth season of the CBS series, shared he is still confused by why he didn’t play his immunity idol before he was eliminated in a blindside vote.
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Survivor’s challenge beast got blindsided.
Indeed, Ozzy Lusth’s decision to not play his immunity idol due to the assumption that tribemate Aubry Bracco was on the chopping block led to his unsuspecting elimination during the May 6 episode of the competition series’ milestone 50th season.
And ever since his torch got snuffed, the 44-year-old said he’s had a tough time processing the game-ending mistake.
“The last year of my life has been so incredibly difficult,” Ozzy told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published May 7, “because of the one moment where you wish she could just go back and take a right instead of a left.”
He added, “I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night for the last year with regrets and this idea that I could somehow change the past. Even right now, trying to explain it, it’s so difficult.”
As for why the Survivor legend—whose return to season 50 marked his fifth time appearing on the show—ultimately didn’t play the idol to protect himself?
“I wish I knew the answer,” Ozzy admitted. “It’s something I’ve been asking myself for the last year.”
“I got too in my head about doing these crazy algebraic formulas,” he continued, “telling myself who’s voting for who and how and why and what, whatever, when in my heart of hearts, I felt it, but my mind got in the way.”
Indeed, Ozzy recalled telling himself, “Ah, what’s one more day? I think I can make it one more day. These guys gotta get rid of Aubry. Come on. They’ve been saying it this whole entire game.”
Robert Voets/CBSStill, he ignored the foreboding nightmare he had the previous night in which he was eliminated alongside already-ousted players.
“That’s probably the biggest lesson for me in all of this is being more in tune with your intuition, being more in tune with your dreams,” Ozzy shared. “As much as your subconscious is so powerful, our mind often gets in the way. That’s really what it comes down to, is I let my mind play a major trick on myself.”
Since his visible heartbreak in the episode and the difficult year of processing his Survivor loss, Ozzy has come to terms with the fact that his time on the CBS series is done
Robert Voets/CBS“I just can’t see a world where [host] Jeff [Probst] asked me to come play for a sixth time,” he said, “unless it’s like the last season that he ever does, and maybe it’s Survivor 60. That would be the only time I could see Jeff asking me to come play.”
However, Ozzy emphasized if the opportunity presented itself, “I would happily go back. I would play Survivor over and over and over again.”
