Laëtitia, a 37-year-old from Landes, was eliminated at the same time as Vincent during the episode of the “linked destinies” of
Koh-Lanta, the secret weapons
.
While she thought she was protected by an immunity collar, she was disillusioned when Lucie played her black bracelet.
“At the time, I didn't understand at all why she did this to me.
I was very angry with him, ”explains Laëtitia to
20 Minutes
.
Since the shooting, Laëtitia has had no contact with Myriam, Mathieu and Thomas: “[During the game], they never came to see me, if only to find out what I was doing for a living, if I was well or not. "
Usually, an immunity collar allowed whoever played it on a board to be completely safe from elimination that night. But that was without counting the black bracelet, the dreaded "secret weapon" added to
Koh-Lanta's
menu
this season and which allows the person who holds it to "steal" an immunity collar when it has been unsheathed. and take it for yourself or give it to someone else. In the ninth episode broadcast Friday on TF1, Laëtitia paid the price for this turnaround. The 37-year-old Landaise had her immunity stolen by Lucie who passed it on to Maxine. If she had no vote against her, the fate of Laëtitia was linked to that of Vincent, to whom the majority of the votes turned. She was therefore eliminated at the same time as her sidekick.
When Lucie plays her black bracelet, what went through your mind?
A feeling… Like a stab in the heart.
I don't know how to explain this feeling.
It is like when you are unwell.
At the time, I didn't know how to react because Lucie is above all a great friend.
I was and still am very attached to her, we called each other "the galley buddies", we rowed in the same direction.
At the moment, I don't understand at all why she did this to me.
Over time, I understood that it was her game, that she fell in love with Maxine.
I respect him but at the time I resented him a lot.
Would you say this is betrayal on his part?
As a soccer player that I am, I prefer to say that I took a tackle from behind.
It's prettier than “betrayal” I think (laughs).
She didn't promise to save me until the end of the game, she didn't give me her word, so you can't say she betrayed me.
You voted against Thomas while Vincent and Flavio voted against Magali.
Didn't they tell you about that?
They told me.
Flavio told me “You're all alone, it's not the strategy.
I, humanly speaking, it was impossible for me not to vote for Thomas, with everything he did to me.
He kept sending me spades to ruin my life.
It was out of the question that I did not mark his name on paper.
He was pulling me out through my nose holes.
I have always voted on affect and merit.
I didn't care if they didn't follow me, I was happy to write Thomas on my newsletter.
Did having the immunity collar in your possession help you endure Thomas' spikes?
He was going too far. It was really hatred, revenge… It was heavy, by force. He's like that, we took Myriam away from him, I didn't think it was going to hurt him so much. He didn't get over it and he transferred his hatred to me. Lucie, she was in destiny linked with Arnaud, so he knew she would not go out. He also sent pikes to Vincent. But I think Thomas said to himself that, given my beginning of the adventure where I did not assert myself, he could sink me, destabilize me, make me feel guilty for having voted Myriam. Maybe he thought I was the weakest and that was going to affect me the most. But by having a necklace, as you say, I didn't feel threatened at all. He did me a favor by bumping into me because I was able to show that I had the answer and that I would never have let myself be done.
You seemed to be just starting to gain confidence on the camp.
Do you regret not asserting yourself earlier?
I regret not having done it but my goal was to go as far as possible and I knew very well that alone, or two with Lucie, against four it would be complicated.
I was aware that if I voted against one of the four [Myriam, Shanice, Mathieu, Thomas], I would sign my death warrant.
So I took it upon myself and I did not experience it well.
I said to myself "suffer for the moment and you will go further, wait for reunification where the camp will be different".
In everyday life, I'm not like that at all, I bring my strawberry all the time, I'm smiling, I make jokes ...
Since the broadcast, have you seen your former teammates in a different light?
I find them worse!
I felt that some were not interested in me.
The four together saw each other going far so they didn't pay attention to those who were not in their core.
But I would not have believed that they could say so much nastiness, like "Air Tahiti", "I vote against her at the next council".
In the end, others took the plane before me.
Mathieu and Myriam went out before me, it's a great revenge.
It hurts my heart to see so much meanness, especially since I've never done a crooked shot.
Who have you kept in touch with since the shoot?
With all of them, except with Myriam, Mathieu and Thomas.
I spoke with Shanice, who had often been there for me.
I think it was she who made others not vote against me.
She came to chat with me, she saw who I really was and was super nice to me.
She knew my true values.
Myriam, Thomas and Mathieu recently said in a live Instagram that they no longer spoke to Vincent either.
There really was a break in this former yellow team ...
I will not judge them.
I think they didn't sort things out.
Koh-Lanta
is a game. Mathieu and Myriam are still frustrated at being out before us.
They say they were betrayed but I did not betray anyone since I had not given my word to anyone.
They never came to see me, if only to find out what I was doing for a living, whether I was okay or not.
You said you wanted to participate so that your wife would be proud of you.
It's the case ?
Oh yeah, she's doubly proud of me because she tells me she wouldn't have lasted ten days on the team I had, with all those big mouths.
She would have slammed more than one.
She wonders how I did it because she knows that usually I have a respondent and that I am not very patient.
She would like me to stay as I was in
Koh-Lanta
, but chase away the natural and it comes back at full speed (laughs)!
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