LAST EDITED ON 10-25-13 AT 01:56 PM (EST)

part 1

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John and I were still -- we were friends. ..

John's quite the competitor, you know, he understood that my reasoning for blindsiding him didn't have to do with me. It had to do with protecting Monica and not jeopardizing her position ..

"God, everybody in Monica's tribe is blaming me for whoever goes out." And so, I was real nervous on sending somebody out who she potentially could've been connected to. I had no communication with Monica. They never lost. They never sent anybody home. So I didn't know who or what she was connected to ..

part 2

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there was an alliance built five seconds into the game and she was not a part of it. Okay, so going out into it, I didn't want that to happen. ..

I'm a talker. I'm a trial attorney, and I didn't hide from anything of who I am. Everybody already knew I played pro football and they wanted to hear about it. And quite frankly, the guys all played the game early and strong. The girls weren't interested in talking strategy. ..

I wouldn't be married to Monica for 22 years if I was chauvinistic or misogynistic or sexist. She was trying to rip up the clue, and she was having trouble doing that, and so that's when I said to her, "Burn the clue!" ..

Why would I tell somebody not to make fire? We had no fire for three days. I mean, that's illogical. Everybody -- she in fact tried to make fire and failed. Why would I say to her, "Don't fish." I mean, I didn't say anything to her about not to fish. We had no fire. I guess if she wanted to eat sushi -- nobody fished the first three days. ..

Monica is extremely loyal. And I don't know whether she knows or not whether Vytas changed his vote on me. I think if she finds that out, I think she could be a silent assassin and that could be his downfall, I don't know.