He is one of the best adventurers in the trials, and yet. Gustin, candidate for the season of the “Cursed Tribe” of “Koh-Lanta”, currently broadcast on TF1, considers himself, at this level of the game, as “one of the weakest on the team“, that of the reds, led by Ugo, he confides to Puremedias.com. “Weak“not for his sporting qualities or his undeniable knowledge of survival, but rather for the lack of food.”From the first days, I suffered greatly from hunger” he tells us. “I didn’t expect to feel like this. I told myself that we would find enough food to have energy, but that was not the case at all. There was really nothing to eat.”
“She has a strong character, Sarah, she made her boss”
If at first he gets busy in the camp, after about two weeks of deprivation, “The Swiss giant wobbles, and feels tired“, explained host Denis Brogniart in last week’s episode. “Gustin is a little tired, that’s normal, his body demands a lot, and so it’s more complicated to get him going again” Ugo comments to the camera. “The three boys, we are a little heavy and more energetic, we drag our feet a little more than the girls, we have to admit it“, he adds.
“I think from the 10th day onwards I started to get really knocked out.“, says Gustin. “I couldn’t even get up. It was already killing me. And so, I kept all the energy I could for the tests. The rest of the time I was really just lying on the sand all day. And when I got up, I saw everything white, it made my head spin. It was complicated”. The lifeguard then asks his teammates to slightly increase the food portions. Annoyed, Sarah categorically refuses, and an argument breaks out.
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“The argument is very simple” remembers Gustin. “Sarah still had plenty of energy, she wasn’t hungry at all. Suddenly, she was the ‘boss’ of the rice. Only she could touch the rice and decide exactly what we were going to eat. As she was the one with the most energy on the team, she wanted to eat as little as possible.“, he assures. “It was reckless logic. I was the weakest on the team, and I had to put up with that. In fact, I had no say in the matter. They were content to eat as little as possible. I was dying, I had no strength left. It was frustrating that the strongest decided how much we ate.“
“She has a strong character, Sarah, she made her boss, he continues. Afterwards, in the team, there are still a lot of fairly neutral characters. Maxim, Ugo, the other girls, they are all a little neutral. So the two strong characters were me and Sarah. It was a little frustrating because there was never anyone who supported me either. Nobody said anything. And then, I wasn’t going to take the rice and then go and cook a pot of rice later. At this point in the adventure, you have to stay calm with everyone else if you don’t want to get eliminated.“
“I will never forget, it was truly one of the most difficult moments of my life”
According to him, his differences with Sarah, whom he nevertheless respects for her career, did not date from yesterday. “It was from morning to evening“, he assures. “I couldn’t see her anymore. Neither does she. Every time she said something, it was inappropriate. Me, every time I said something, she jumped down my throat. It was a really heavy situation“, he explains. “We didn’t reconcile. For me, it was one of the worst betrayals of my life. I will never forget that, because it was truly one of the hardest times of my life. And in those moments, to have people like that, who not only don’t help us, but also attack us… I had no more energy. I couldn’t even answer her when she yelled at me. She did the exact opposite that I would have liked to receive during that moment. It really wasn’t cool.“
