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BBCAN5 - Sindy Nguyen Exit Interview
April 21, 2017
You entered the house with Bruno and Kevin. Would you have remained loyal to that Season 3 alliance to the end?
Sindy: That’s really tough. I felt like throughout the first half of this game I was loyal to them but not 100% loyal to them, just like I was loyal to Ika, Demetres and Neda but wasn’t 100% with them. How far I would have gone with them, I’m not too sure. After yesterday’s eviction, that gave me a really different perspective of them. That’s a really good question. I wanted to make the choice only when I had to. I didn’t want to take them that far.
The Six formed early on. You were often the peacekeeper in the alliance. What was it that made you want to fight so hard to keep the alliance together?
Sindy: I wanted to keep The Six together because I knew that I would be fine. If they see me as a peacekeeper, they would be like “Sindy is trying so hard to make this work". They would have to keep me. I knew that I would be fine with Kevin and Bruno, but I can’t just stay trusting with them. Ika and Demetres were the other side. We were such a great team. We just had really bad communication. It was cause we were working both sides of the house. I really really wanted this alliance to work. I put my money where my mouth is and made it work, or tried to.
Fast forward to the double eviction. Did you attempt to throw the competition when you wrote down “22” as your answer to the tie breaker question?
Sindy: I actually meant to write 220. I did the math on my board. I knew there was 30 balls and there was 8 players. I didn’t want to take extra time to write “30”. I wrote “3 x 8”. 3 x 8 is 24. Not all the balls were used, so let’s do 21-22. Because I didn’t put the 0 with the 30, I forgot to put the 0 for 220. When I flipped it over, I flipped it back and realized “oh my God, I forgot to put the 0. Of course it’s more than 22 balls. It’s 30 balls each round. I look like such an idiot”. This is twice that I have put a really stupid number on the tiebreaker board with my terrible math on the side, and I’m Asian! You know how embarrassing that is for an Asian? I wasn’t trying to throw that. I just forgot the 0.
When you initially nominated Dillon and Jackie, were you looking to target one of them or did you have a different target in mind?
Sindy: I did. The night before, Ika, Demetres, Kevin, Bruno and myself were kind of talking about who we would put up. We said Dillon and Jackie, and we would probably send Jackie home. We thought if one of them were to win veto that we would put up Karen. We didn’t know that the jury was going to start. The thought of Neda being a potential backdoor for that double eviction was not thought about as a group. It was thought about in my head. We did think Jackie, Dillon, Karen if it was a normal pre-jury double eviction.
What led to you deciding to nominate Neda as the replacement nominee?
Sindy: I knew that her immunity was going to come up soon. I knew her reputation in the community and in the house is as someone who is very strategic. If I was to make it to the very end, no one would ever believe anything that I would say against her. I knew I had to get rid of Neda one way or another. I was afraid "if I do this, would my alliance members go against me?”. I’m risking four people being ticked at me for doing this. When Ika suggested it and when Kevin and Bruno didn’t reject it, that’s when I was like “I can do this”. If I put up Dre or Ika, I would have had Dre, Demetres and William mad at me, or Ika, Demetres and William mad at me for doing that. If I put up Karen, I feel like it would have been a wasted HoH. If I put up Neda, it didn’t seem like anyone would be upset at me. No one objected to the idea of me putting her up. Because I didn’t really say out loud what I was going to do, nobody thought I knew what I was going to do. I just needed to see if the repercussions would be that bad. To put up Neda, I would have been fine so I did do it.
Do you think you would have made the move against Neda if not for it being a double eviction in which she could leave almost immediately?
Sindy: If It wasn’t a double eviction, I don’t think I would have even tried to win that HoH. I think I would have thrown it half way through.
Did you ever consider choosing to side with Neda over Ika?
Sindy: At one point I did when Neda and I sat down and shared some information. Three days after that, she was already hanging out with Dillon and Jackie. This was actually just before the double eviction. I understand why you are hanging out with them and building that relationship, but she wouldn’t tell me about it. Ika, even though she is close to Demetres, Dre and William, she would tell me everything that they talked about. She would bring me in conversations with Dre, William and Demetres. With Neda, she never did that with any of the other relationships that she was building. I didn’t really know where her head was at. The information she would share with me was more to go against Ika than to go against anybody else in the house. That’s why I picked Ika over Neda. Ika did treat me like more of a player than Neda did.
How do you feel about Bruno and Kevin’s decision to drop out of the HoH competition, leaving you at risk?
Sindy: I was pissed. I was absolutely pissed. I am hosting this competition. I felt like if I showed any reaction, it’s going to make it very obvious but I was not happy at all. If I was in their shoes and they were at risk at all, especially after we get through the double eviction and it’s 5 against 4, I would have stayed there for as long as I could. Just because Dillon said “I’m going to put up Ika and Demetres”, that’s still two people in your alliance who you just said you wanted to work with. You should have stayed there as long as you could. There are still two other people from the other side also in the competition. I can understand if there are one or two people left, but there were still five people in that competition. They had lots of time to get focused. I was not happy about that. That’s when I kind of knew that I might be in trouble.
If you knew that Dillon had planned to put you on the block, is there any chance you would have thrown Bruno or Kevin under the bus to get them put up instead of you?
Sindy: To throw them under the bus to be put up? No. The day of my eviction, I campaigned to Ika and Demetres that “if your fear is me running back to Kevin and Bruno, don’t worry about it. Obviously I have been with you guys since the beginning. I have always voted with you, I have always shared information”. I don’t think I would have done “Dillon, put up Bruno and Kevin”. That just makes me look bad. Everyone assumes that there is a Season 3 solid 100% alliance. If I were to act like that, I think people would see me as more of a shadier person.
You waited until yesterday to campaign to Ika. You pointed out that you always chose her side (voting Mark out, nominating Neda etc.). Do you feel betrayed by her or do you understand why she was hesitant to keep you?
Sindy: A little bit of both. I understand the situation she was in. The swing vote for me to stay was Dre. Dre was the deciding person to help me stay. When I pitched to Dre and William in regards to how I can go against Ika and Demetres, she didn’t really want to do that. The day of my eviction, I went to Ika and Demetres and said “I campaigned against you for the last 48 hours. I’m sorry. I felt betrayed by you guys and felt that I am on the block because of you”. They were like “I wish you came up to me 24 hours ago. Even last night we could have done this. We can’t blindside Dre, William, Dillon and Karen”. I said “let’s bring in Dre and William”. Again, Dre still wouldn’t budge. Dre is telling me her concern is with Ika and Demetres who are telling you that they are okay with doing it, yet you are still not doing it. That is where I felt the betrayal more is through her. Ika did try to come to me to tell me “I can’t do it. I want to but then the side that I am working with will all be against me”. I understand where she is coming from. I still felt betrayal because right now I think that Bruno was the one that did not give me a vote. I was very shocked by the results. I thought it would have been a 5-2 and not a 6-1.
If Neda tells you that you made the wrong move by evicting her, what are you going to say to her in reply to that?
Sindy: That’s a you thing, so let’s sit down and let me explain to you why I made that move.
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