Leaked! Cirie Finally Reveals What Really Happened With Aubry and Rizo

Survivor fans were left stunned after last night’s episode, and Cirie Fields is not holding back about what viewers didn’t get to see. The legendary strategist, widely regarded as one of the greatest players never to win, was voted out again in Survivor 50 Episode 12, just one step away from next week’s finale. With no Shot in the Dark or idol to fall back on, her fate came down to pure strategy — and almost nobody was willing to let her reach the final three. Every player knew the same thing: if Cirie made it there, she likely walked away with the title.

Now, Cirie is opening up about what she calls her final chapter of Survivor after five American seasons and one in Australia. In this interview, she spills on everything from Ozzy Lusth reportedly “blowing up” their game by telling Aubry Bracco their plans, to the moment she realized Rizo Velovic was drifting away from her alliance. She also explains why she chose to frame Aubry, what her conversation with Rizo looked like after the Ozzy blindside, and why she believes one warning sign should never be ignored.

The circumstances of your elimination this time were relatively normal, all things considered. If this is your last time playing Survivor, how do you feel about this episode being your ending?

I feel awesome about it. I feel like I pulled out all the stops. I did everything I could to try to throw a Hail Mary once I knew that it was probably going to be me. And I just love the game that I played this season. I am thrilled with all of it. I don’t have any regrets, and I usually have one or two. I don’t have any this time.

It was so fun watching you. You mist everybody. You have such a way to convince people that your idea is the most common-sense one. And a lot of the time, it is.

Exactly. That’s why it works. It’s not really me, per se. It’s just opening their eyes like, wait a minute, you know what? Because sometimes you’ve got to hear it. Sometimes you’ve got to hear it out loud or see it written down, and then you’re like, wait a minute, what’s your thinking?

How did it feel to have Jeff let you say, “The tribe has spoken”?

Jeff let me say it before. So it was like, I love Jeff. And I don’t know. I just feel, like I told Jeff, the gratitude and honor I feel being there, even at the time being voted out of season 50 and standing before Jeff and seeing him smile and feeling the energy, love from him. I don’t know, it was great as usual.

The game loves you as much as you love it.

Right. They’re my family now. I’m forever. So I might get a tattoo. I don’t know.

Is there any scenario where you think that Rizo had this idol? Did you ever want him to play it for you? And is there any scenario where that helps his resume doing that for you?

Unfortunately, Billie Eilish, the rules of that idol is you can’t play it for anybody else.

Oh, right! Billie Eilish, why did you do that? Not even the option. So it’s not even worth exploring the hypothetical of that. Dang. Why didn’t Ozzy play that idol?

I know. And he had a dream the night before. So this is a lesson for all the younger people and even older people. When your gut tells you something, when the universe comes to you in a dream to tell you is trying to reach out to you in many ways, and this has occurred to me. I don’t think it’s a universe for me as God. I have gotten signals from God that, thank God, I listened to. Things would’ve been catastrophic for me had I not. So you will always get a warning. You will always get an ick feeling. You will always get goosebumps. Something is trying to tell you. When that happens, listen to it. Please listen to it.

When you found out what Ozzy did, telling Aubry about your alliance, what did you fear for your game in response to that?

I felt that these people, who already suspected that Ozzy and I were closely aligned, would be affected. And the worst part of it was a lot of them knew that we had a connection or an agreement. Joe knew we had a connection or agreement, but the problem in Survivor, information is currency, and if you’re not sharing your information with me, then you don’t trust me. And if you don’t trust me, should I trust you? And once they found out that I had this extra vote that was given to me by Ozzy so far back, I felt like they would be like, “Oh, why didn’t she tell us that? Or why didn’t she tell me that?” Even individually, I thought we were cool. I thought we were locked in, and I knew that would count against me in their eyes.

Speaking of information as currency, can you explain your thought process behind framing Aubry in this episode instead of telling the truth about Rizo? Why is a lie more valuable than the truth in this scenario?

Because they had already spoken to me several times, and I think they’ve shown it so many times where they’re like, “We don’t trust Aubry. We don’t trust Aubry.” And I knew they had a little bromance going with Rizo, so I felt like my best chance was to enhance that distrust of Aubry than try to build distrust of Rizo that they may not have believed.

You’re so smart. When you were heading into tribal council, obviously, you knew that you were a possible name being written down that night, but how concerned were you that it was going to be you?

Very, very concerned because, as you see when I said to Rizo, “What happens if Tiffany wins immunity?” And Rizo’s answer was, “I don’t know.” And I said, “What do you mean you don’t know? I already know.” Huh? You don’t know? OK. If you don’t know, I know. So yeah, I knew. Yeah, that’s why I threw the Hail Mary. That’s the only reason I would ever try to get Aubry because it was either she or I. Other than that, I never really targeted Aubry.

When Rizo said, “I don’t know,” do you think you really didn’t know, or was he lying?

I knew he knew. That’s why I said it. What do you mean? It was like a mother scolding. What do you mean you don’t know? I know you know.

Oh my gosh, what would the tattoo be?

I don’t know. Something with Survivor in hearts and butterflies.