‘Survivor’ 47’ runner-up Sam Phalen was in ‘emotional turmoil’ after losing the game

nypost.com:

“Survivor 47” runner-up Sam Phalen struggled going right into the aftershow after losing the jury vote against Rachel LaMont.“It’s very hard.

You don’t get a ton of answers about why everything happened the way it happened,” Phalen, 24, exclusively told the Post the day after coming in second place during the finale.The sports reporter also admitted he was in “emotional turmoil” after coming up short against LaMont, 34, at the final tribal council.Read Phalen’s full interview below.New York Post: What jury votes did you think you could get heading into final tribal?Sam Phalen: I felt like I had Sierra and Kyle in my corner and would be able to get their votes.

Gabe was another one that I was pretty confident withthe argument that I planned to make and the type of performance that I planned to have at final tribal, that it would be something that would win Gabe’s vote over.

That night I was really trying to pitch Andy and Teeny, who I felt were super in the air and could have swung either way. I felt like it was going to be very tight, very close.