Board Thread:Season 40 - Argentina/@comment-27636148-20170518231806/@comment-30516037-20170520005116

Hey Alissa

I fully get where you're coming from, I just want to clear a few things up because I honestly value everything you did for me so much more than the outcome of this game.

Firstly: I didn't know who they were voting for. Brandon only told me twenty minutes after the deadline before the results had been posted, and I messaged you not long after that when you came back online. Before that, they'd literally given me no indication that it was going to be you, like no mention of your name and I never suggested your name to him. Yes I did talk to them to try and make sure their vote wasn't me by saying I wanted to work with them at the merge etc etc (which i did), but in no way did I ever try to throw you under the bus & you'll see in my confessionals that I was literally so upset that you were gone.

Second, as soon as I found out there was an idol being played, like a couple of hours before the deadline, I messaged Ally bc she was the only one online at the time and then Ally and I brought up the idea to split votes in the Formosa girls chat. So I feel like I did make a legitimate attempt to try to make sure you were safe. When I said in my speech that in a way the outcome benefitted me, it did, but that doesn't mean at all that I made any deliberate attempt to get you out & in no way did I "throw you away". Look back, Ally can look back in my messages to her. I honestly told her and brought up the splitting votes idea straight away.

This response has nothing to do with wanting votes tonight, I honestly just can't even tell you how grateful I am for everything you did for me, and no one knows more than me how lucky I was to be paired with you.