His hopes of reintegrating Koh Lanta during reunification were wiped out. Karima left the anniversary edition “The Legend” during the fourth episode broadcast Tuesday on TF1. She lost during a test in the arena, facing Maxime and Ugo who, them, remain in the race on the island of the banished. This defeat was painful for the 32-year-old soldier who, joined by 20 minutes Monday, confides to be still affected by this departure in the first days of the show.
If the editing focused on the points of tension, Karima emphasizes that she also lived beautiful moments of sharing and knew how to split the armor with her companions in adventure. The public may be tempted to put her on a sham trial by seeing her as rigid and ruthless. Above all, she put a lot of pressure on herself: by committing to this season all stars, she wanted to rise to the challenge.
“I’m sorry,” you said at the time of your elimination, adding that you had no right to fail. Looking back, don’t you tell yourself you’ve judged yourself too harshly?
It’s part of my personality. I am very demanding of myself, this is how I move forward and I move forward correctly in my everyday life. Redo a Koh Lanta, for me it was a great opportunity. We tell ourselves that you have to be up to the task, give the best of yourself, I had to be efficient in everything. I had made a lot of concessions, professionally and family, to participate again.
Do you really consider it a failure?
I lived very badly to be eliminated from the first episode. I felt humiliated. I was moved and disappointed. Some girls, in this adventure, had sworn that they would not vote against me. The emotions got carried away, I didn’t feel good.
Several of those who voted against you justified their choice by speaking about your temperament. Do you understand or does this seem like a false excuse?
For me, this is totally a false excuse. Unfortunately, in the first episode, the moments where I was laughing with the girls, where we were telling our personal stories, were not shown. I have a big shell. I have never indulged so much, that’s why I was disappointed. The viewers just saw the phase where, during the final advice, my emotions got a little carried away. When I see the episodes, I wonder where certain images have gone. For example, when I go to see the girls, it is because they have sworn to me that they will not vote against me and that I want to know who they are going to vote against. It was not to be strategic but to know. From my point of view, I was not aggressive. I think in life you have to be frank, you have to say, “I have to eliminate someone and it will be you. “
Interviewed by “20 Minutes”, Cindy believes that you have gone too far, expects you to question yourself, and describes you as “bloodthirsty” and “resentful” … What do you answer her?
I have nothing to answer to a person who wants to feed their social networks. I didn’t hold a grudge. At the end, I took her in my arms, I told her that her daughter can be proud of her because having an adventure of this type is not within everyone’s reach. I did not insult her, I did not attack her dignity.
You thank your chefs who made it possible for you to participate in this season. What do they tell you when they watch “Koh-Lanta”?
I have always had a contract of trust with my chefs. They always told me they would be by my side. When I returned, I was really saddened by what had happened. When I watch this adventure, I can’t find everything I experienced: there were a lot of sequences where I laughed with people, for example. With Ugo and Maxime, on the island of the banished, we shared a lot of things. I showed them where the sea urchins were, we ate together. I’m not saying what was broadcast is wrong, but there were some happier moments that I would have liked to see.
If you had to do this adventure again, what would you do differently?
I admit that this adventure marked me enormously and that at the moment I am not very well. I tell myself that I don’t want to do it again at all Koh Lanta. I don’t know… I have the impression of being misunderstood. Summarizing three days in one episode is not easy and we cannot put everything together, I understand that. I went back to Koh Lanta for the love of adventure and survival, for the challenges, to measure myself against people who have embellished Koh Lanta throughout these twenty years. I really wanted to fully experience this adventure.