The latest 'Survivor' castaway is chill now about that brutal betrayal

What a brutal Survivorvote this week.

Michaela Bradshaw played a killer game. She was always entertaining to watch, always brought great energy to every scene she was a part of.

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Her mistake: she played like she was part of a team. There was so much comfort in her four-person alliance with Jay, Will and Hannah that she let her strategic intelligence fly as she laid out how their group would go all the way to the final four.

Jay, realizing Michaela would be difficult -- if not impossible -- to defeat at the final Tribal Council, made the unexpected move of arranging a blindside. It made for excellentTV -- who will forget that staredown moment? -- but in the end, fan-favorite Michaela had her torch snuffed.

Here's what she had to say about it to Mashable.

Hey Michaela!

Hello.

Ugh, I am SO sorry. I can't believe the vote went that way.

Me too. I'm sorry, too. But you know, I had a glass of wine to make it better.

My fiancee and I-- we were rooting for you, straight up. We were rooting for you and Mari and Zeke, and now you and Mari are both gone. So we're pulling for Zeke.

I root for whoever at this point because I can't root for me, but man, I was not planning to leave that early. I can tell you that.

So ... it seems pretty clear: You had no idea going into Tribal that this was even a possibility, did you?

Noooo! I mean, I knew from a logical perspective that it was a possibility. Did I ever think that would become my reality? Noooo!

I thought that I had made it very clear, like, 'You guys, I haven't met half the people here. I'm down for this team of four to the end.' I thought it was very clear with Will and Jay. Look, y'all didn't want me to be in on this [hidden immunity] idol thing; I saw it, no one else knows about it. Clearly you can trust me. But I think I made the mistake of assuming that other people were as trustworthy or as loyal to me as I would be to them.

Did I know it was a possibility, statistically? Yes! But did I have any inclination that it would actually happen? No. I was just -- I was super-shocked. My neck almost fell off, I turned around so hard.

Yeah, that was quite a moment. I mean, good on Jay for looking you in the eyes and owning it. But that was a moment.

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Yes. I didn't even know what happens with people that get voted off. I wasn't even thinking about that. My focus was so on getting to the end. I just knew that if I found a way to the end, I'm gonna get that money.

All I knew was that when people get voted off, they disappear. So I'm like, 'You're gonna see my face and we're gonna figure this out right here, right now.' But he just had nothing to say and you can only sit there so long. Then you've got to get up and get snuffed. So that was the way of the world that night.

I was certainly very surprised to see such a seemingly tight-knit alliance break so early in the game, but for you now, looking back -- because obviously it's been some time -- do you see the move Jay made there? Can you respect that move now?

Yeah, I understand the move. Like, if I was a traditional Survivorplayer who was ... cutthroat and untrustworthy and easily susceptible to paranoia, then yes. He made the perfect move. Because you don't want to bring a person that's an athletic threat, a person that's a strategic threat and a person that's an intelligence [threat, all in one]. You don't want to bring them into the merge and give them more people to play with.

However, I think Jay could have been a little more trusting of me because I had no intention of backstabbing him. I had given them my word. I was like, 'Look, y'all, we've got a clear path to the end.' I think, short-term, that seems like a good move because you don't want people you can't beat in the merge.

I think if I was the type of person that was more selfish ... that was the perfect move, because if I had those characteristics I would have flipped on him. But considering that I'm loyal Michaela -- even if I'm not trying to tell the truth, my face tells it for me -- considering that's me, I think he just lost a valuable alliance member.

It certainly doesn't look good for that crew turning on an alliance member like that. That kind of stuff tends to ripple out later into the season.

Exactly.

But for me, watching that last night, I got the sense that the move wasn't so much that he was afraid, that they were afraid you were going to turn on them. I think it was more, they looked at you and said, 'Even if we go final four, there's no way we win.'

Exactly. That was the part that I wasn't calculating for. You know when you make a plan -- even if you're making a plan for the team, it's still a plan for you. So my thing is, 'I can go to the final four with y'all, I feel like I'm gonna win.' Well that means that plan is not a good plan for the other three people.

So I made a miscalculation in revealing all of that information because people were like, 'Well shoot, I really don't want to sit next to her at the end of the game.' So I get it, 100 percent. Makes sense to me.

Have you and Jay talked since the season ended and you've all gone back to normal lives?

Yeah, me and Jay have so many similarities. And that's part of why we got closer in the game, and part of why I feel so betrayed that he voted me off. But I understand the game versus real life. I understand business versus real life. So I don't harbor any ill will toward him.

Like we were texting last night during the show. We connected and we plan to see each other in the future. We have no bad blood, it's a good situation. It's kind of funny now. I was just like, 'Bro, you got me.' He was like, 'Yeah, sorry, but it looked epic though.'

It was a truly epic Survivormoment. So when we see you back on the show -- I think you were a very popular player, I think people want to see more of you, you were destined to go further, so 'when' and not 'if' -- what's the lesson from this season?

If Jeff gives me the chance to come and redeem myself, I have to prove to him that he made the right decision. And I think, looking back on what I intended to do going into the game and what I actually did, I think the number one thing I need to change is don't show all my strengths so early. Because again, if people are talking about me, even if it's in a positive light, it's just a matter of time before the insecure people start to feel afraid.

So I don't need to show all my strengths up front. I don't need to show my intelligence up front. People don't want to play with people that they think can outsmart them.

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I don't need to blow up people's plans up front. If I see somebody finding an Idol, I don't need them to know that I know they have an Idol. Certain things I need to keep to myself. [I need to] collect that information and then take action on the information. Don't put my life in other people's hands.

I think those are the main things. Hide my strengths, hide my intelligence, collect information but don't let anybody know what I have, but then actually make moves with the information. Don't wait around with it or else a move will be made on me.

I think that is a good plan, but I also think if you return, you go in with baggage. People know you already. I feel anyone who goes on Survivoris a student of the show. You can try to hide your intelligence, but we all know you're smart now.

All I know is, the biggest thing -- if I feel like something has a chance of not going my way, it's better to overjump the gun and still live another day than to sit back and end up getting blindsided.

That's the thing. I come from a loyal place in life where people are playing for a team, but in Survivoryou really have to play for the individual. No one else wants you to win $1 million.

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