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We just got off the phone with Shambo. She was so insulted with one of my questions that she stopped my interview. What I did get to ask brought some great answers.

Here is some information that we learned, as well as some direct quotes. Many people were on the call and some of these questions are from them.

Choice quote: Was I treated horribly? Absolutely. Was I treated worse that anybody out there, all 20 of us? Absolutely, positively.

In response to a question about her and Laura; "It felt like within Gaulu, there was half of them with me and half of them with Laura. It was two strong women who were obviously not clicking from day one."

Question: You've taken a lot of guff from competitors who've talked about your during and after the show, but you seemed to be the most genuinely touched by anyone that I've seen play. What do you take from the experience?

Answer: I've been through this. It's behind you. Put it behind you and move forward. That way, I do get to turn it into something positive. For what I went through, I know there's going to be a thousand times more good memories than bad a year from now. That's what I'm looking forward to, putting the sad, mad, bad feelings behind me. Just burying that hatchet. Let bygones be bygones. We were at our worst out there. Let's just grow up and say I'm sorry for what I did. I can't wait to see some of these people to make my own apologies. We're all human beings. If we strive to be our best and when we know we fall short and be honest about it, then that will be what I take going forward.

Question: Both Laura and Dave said that they were never mean to you. What are your thoughts on that?

Answer: I would defer you to who ever else gets voted off. You might want to ask them that question because it's really not worth rehashing it and bringing up. I think that there are things that happened out there that should have never happened, but I'm not gonna point them out because there's really no point. We really were all at our worst. Was I treated horribly? Absolutely. Was I treated worse that anybody out there, all 20 of us? Absolutely, positively. Am I going to assess blame with people's names? There's no way in God's green earth, because you know what? Let it go.

Question: What was the easiest part of Survivor?

Answer: I don't even have an answer to that. I don't think there's an easy part to Survivor.

Here's part of my interview with her:

Survivor.com: I want to understand. A little bit ago, you said that the Gaulu tribe was split half with Laura and half with you. Who was on your side?

Shambo: You don't know?

Survivor.com: Refresh my memory.

Shambo: Fill in the spaces and I'll help you with the rest. I'm challenging your Survivor memory.

Survivor.com: But I'm asking you. This is your interview.

Shambo: Ah, you don't know. You silly bear. It would be Erik, and Chief Russ, and Yasmine, and I would say that Brett was a wildcard, although he had a lot of respect for how hard I worked, and I think in the beginning, I would say Dave was a wildcard too, because there was the "guy alliance". It's not like "Shannon was in control of this half!". I'm not stating that AT ALL. I'm saying that everybody wants to pitch me against Laura and that's why I presented it the way that I did.

Survivor.com: So what was your relationship with Laura? I know you want to move on and be positive and all that, but they were really adamant that they weren't mean to you and you say they were, but you don't want to give us examples.

Shambo: I'm just not going to go there, dude. I've been really frank about that. What happened out there, everybody knows what happened out there. Maybe you guys can, if you really feel the need to dredge up dirt and make people look like crap, I just don't want to be part of it.

Survivor.com: That's our job, though.

Shambo: I'm not down with that, brother. It doesn't serve me well in my life going forward to just keep picking at a scab that's a lot to bare and a lot to bury and that's where I'm at with it. You just got to respect that.

Survivor.com: It seemed like you reacted and made decisions more emotionally than rationally. I couldn't discern any strategy that you had. Did you have a strategy? Did you think things through?

Shambo: Wow. I'm so insulted by your question. I just want to tell you to totally blow off right now because that is like really rude.

Survivor.com: I'm sorry.

Shambo: Seriously. How would you feel if I just said that to you?

Survivor.com: I would be insulted.

Shambo: Well, good. I'm done with your interview.

I guess I got my answer. She had no strategy. All she ever did was based on emotion.

I want to quote Danger Dave from last week's interview. He said "Shambo was a complete and total wing nut who had a grudge against her (Laura) because Laura represented everything that Shambo could never be; competent, and bright, and strong, and funny, and well liked." Shambo was "was battling demons from her past."

Listen to the interview and you tell me who correct.

31 minutes long. 11.3MB. Download it here.