‘Survivor 47’ star Andy Rueda says he’s ‘done a lot of work’ to ‘process’ his day 3 breakdown

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“Survivor” journey. After being voted out by Rachel LaMont’s shocking idol play, the 31-year-old AI research assistant exclusively spoke to The Post about how he went from suffering a public breakdown on day three to masterminding his “Operation: Italy” scheme that nearly won him the game. “I’ve done a lot of work trying to proces exactly how that happened, why that happened, like what was going on there,” Rueda said.He also called the incident “unprecedented” and “uncharacteristic.”Read Rueda’s full interview below. New York Post: Do you feel that your final conversation with Rachel was the nail in your coffin and inspired her to vote you out?Andy Rueda: I do feel that it certainly contributed to that target shifting from Sam to me.

I will say that in the aftermath of Operation: Italy and getting out Caroline, Sue was not happy with me. She wanted my head on a spike.

So the two of them were collaborating as to who to get out. Sue’s preference was for me to leave. That being said, you know, if push came to shove, I think it’s definitely probable that Rachel could get Sue to vote for Sam if that’s what they wanted to do.

But in terms of that conversation, I think that it sort of sealed the deal in a way. Were you ever seriously considering siding with Rachel and Sue to vote out Sam?My plan had Genevieve not want immunity was to genuinely swing over to them and work with them and use the block vote to get out Genevieve.