Survivor's Liz slams Foa Foa tribe

BY CHRIS SCHULZ

EXCLUSIVE: Survivor victim Elizabeth Kim has slammed her tribe, calling her controversial team mate Russell Hantz a "chauvinist pig" who had "hoodwinked" the rest of the team.

Kim, a 33-year-old lawyer from New York nicknamed "Liz", became the eighth person to leave Survivor: Samoa - and the sixth to leave her tribe Foa Foa - after Hantz took a dislike to her and orchestrated her downfall.

In an interview with Stuff.co.nz, Kim criticised Hantz and said her tribe should have voted off Jaison Robinson after his weak performance in challenges.

"Russell is a male chauvinist pig," she said. "I was a strong, opinionated woman who played the game well and he didn't like that. He was very threatened by that.

"Jaison is growing weaker episode by episode. It's much easier for Russell to control Jaison than me ... I just got the short end of the stick."

Kim claimed the remaining members of her tribe were "hoodwinked" by Hantz and questioned their judgement.

"They wouldn't listen to me. They each thought that Russell was going to take them to the end and they trusted him.

"They wouldn't trust me (but) I'm not the one calling them part of my 'dumb ass girls' alliance. It kills me that they didn't go along with me. It would have been a different game had we blindsided Russell."

Kim said she knew from her first night on Samoa that she couldn't trust Hantz after he lied about his involvement in Hurricane Katrina.

"I was right next to him (and) he was going on, saying his house was flooding and his dog disappeared.

"I have a dog. No dog just disappears like that. No dog turns its back on its owner. That's when I knew something was up. This guy was pretty fishy, he's slippery and the facts aren't adding up."

She was disappointed she didn't make it to next week's merge, in which Foa Foa will join forces with opposing tribe Galu.

"We lost eight out of 10 challenges. That's a record. If we'd won even one of those challenges I would have made it to the merge.

"And I would have flipped."

* Survivor: Samoa screens on TV3 on Thursday nights at 7.30pm. Stuff.co.nz will interview every contestant as they are eliminated.

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