“Régis and I are going to have a good discussion”, warns Jessica

• Jessica, 35, was eliminated from Koh-Lanta, the island of heroes at the end of the episode broadcast this Friday on TF1.
• She would have stayed in the adventure if Régis, who had promised to ally with her, had kept his word. But she did not experience this as a betrayal “because, basically, we had no affinities”, she assures 20 minutes.
• Jessica has a hard time dealing with hate messages on social media targeted by some of her adventure partners. “Viewers have the right to give their opinion on how we played. But insults and death threats have no place in these dialogues, “she insists.

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She left with her head held high and with class. At the end of the episode of Koh-Lanta, the island of heroes aired this Friday on
TF1, Jessica had to resign herself to extinguishing her torch. The 35-year-old Essonnienne, who participated in the adventure game for the second time after a first experience in 2015, could have saved her place if Régis had kept his promise to ally with her… The adventurer however reacted with fair play and pragmatism. As she confides to 20 minutes, she has no regrets

The episode started with your tense explanation with Régis after the previous council. He said in front of everyone that you had in mind a list of people to be eliminated. Something that you vehemently denied … Do you hold it against him?

I have a lot of perspective on the game. Once it is finished, I make a clean sweep of what happened, I am amnesic problems. At the time, I wanted him a lot, I was very angry. I expressed it, it had to come out because I could not suffer an injustice. There was never a list because I am unable to do this kind of thing. The strategy is not rooted in me. Sure Koh Lanta, we cannot predict the future and say to ourselves “the next eliminated, it will be such a person, the following such another and after such other …” Régis and I are going to have a good discussion. We’ll never get the last word on this, because everyone has passed the buck. He understood that I had implied that. Does he realize that he has raw understand things that I didn’t say? This is what I will ask him and then we will stop there.

Régis had agreed to make an alliance with Claude and you, before stepping down when voting on the board. He thus contributed to your elimination. Is this a betrayal?

I don’t have that feeling because, basically, we didn’t have any affinities. I was fully aware that he was part of the yellow team. We got closer to Régis and I after the pair event, we were able to chat. There was a time when he felt the fifth wheel of the coach in his team. I was a little alone. While discussing, we tried an alliance. He had the choice to simply accept or refuse. If he said yes all the better. I had this card to play. If he said no, I wouldn’t have blamed him. He had a moment’s hesitation about the continuation of his adventure. He decided to commit, to agree to turn to Claude and me. Even there, I did not trust. We had to have several discussions for him to reassure me, to tell me that he was on our side. But the yellow team is very tight-knit, when it felt the wind turn, and saw that Régis had the ass between two chairs, it caught it. It is legitimate. But I think that at the start Régis was sincere in his approach towards me.

Régis is one of the candidates who receive insults and threats from part of the public. What does that remind you of?

I’m touched. Even if I am not directly targeted, it concerns my comrades. These are people with whom I had a great adventure. Certainly, we make viewers pass by all the emotions, we animate their evening on Fridays… Koh Lanta, it’s like a TV series, like when you watch La Casa de Papel and love one character, hate another, criticize creators because they make a character go. We are fortunate to have social media to be able to communicate with the public. Viewers have the right to give their opinion on how we played. But
insults and death threats have no place in these dialogues.
This has big consequences, it can be dramatic.

Do you discuss a bit of all this between candidates?

Of course. I like to pick up my phone and be kind to people when I feel it’s going to be a difficult episode for them, that they’re going to be criticized. I call them, we discuss them and, conversely, they are also there when I need to speak, to discuss. We explain some things that have been said and we support each other.

During the face-to-face debrief, you say that you have not achieved any of the objectives that you set yourself. Looking back, is your impression the same?

At the time, I was disappointed. I wanted to go a little further and try to get into the strategies properly. My mother, before I left said to me, “Jess, you had a great image in your first Koh Lanta. But it’s also a game and on this second one, you have to be a little more strategist, without doing incorrect things. But I failed to do it. I have advanced a little alone in the adventure. I only had Claude by my side, Teheiura for a while… Looking back, I have no regrets about the adventure, I stayed as I was. I have other skills than strategy. I fight in the tests, I like to communicate, to exchange, to laugh.

Ready to go for a third “Koh-Lanta”?

I would leave with my eyes closed! We are always ready to redo one Koh Lanta. Most of the “Koh-Lantais” affirm it: it is an exceptional adventure. Never two without three, as they say. I really believe it!