Her military experience: She met a huge diversity of people and she thinks that can't possibly hurt her on "Survivor." She said and did what she wanted and people still voted to give her the money twice! That gave me hope that I didn't have to filter myself so much." Her plan was to vent about the other players in the confessionals, not to their faces or to others.
And small world: she worked on the same Air Force base as Sandra. "I loved how she played.
The Boston Rob/Sandra twist: She was a huge fan of both players and said so numerous times during casting, which certainly didn't hurt her chances of making it on the show. She also tried her best early on to keep her head down and not make waves. The tumor, she noted, is the type of sympathy-tugging story you wait to reveal during the final Tribal Council when seeking votes to win the $1 million. Going into the game: She planned not to say anything about her her brain tumor to fellow players, figuring it would make her more of a target. She also made a list of things she wanted to do: see Beyoncé in concert, buy a jeep and get on "Survivor." (She's done two out of three so far, save for the jeep.) Good news! "I went into the MRI convinced it was cancerous and I was going to die." Instead, "it was non-cancerous, which was super dope!" She took pills that dissipated the tumor into nothing and she has since recovered completely. There, she finally learned she had a brain tumor, which caused her body to think she was having a baby. "It was like a case for 'Grey's Anatomy'!" she said. "I need to call Shonda!" She lost her spot at the academy and was moved to an Air Force base in Seattle. She started getting bad grades and behaving erratically. Then the tumor came. Her first two years at the academy went great but she started acting strangely her junior year and had no idea why. I wanted to travel and learn a foreign language. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. "It was the best education of all the schools offering a basketball scholarship. I needed the scholarship so my family could pay a discounted rate."Īnd she was able to adjust from a world where she only saw black faces to a world of mostly white ones. "It was totally life changing," she said.Īir Force bound: She also sought a free ride for college and was able to get into the U.S. "I knew I had a better shot of going to college going to Wesleyan," she said. "The big thing was price. From public to private school: As a sophomore, she transferred from Columbia High School in Decatur to a private Wesleyan School in Norcross.
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