User blog:Tanglefrost/Mercedes Triffitt's Facebook Live About Forrest

Note: This will not be censored as it is a Facebook Live, not a produced episode.



Mercedes: Hi, guys, it’s Mercedes here. I promised in a Tweet last night that I’d go live with what I was going to say to Forrest and this is it right here. I’ve been waiting a while to do this but I haven’t been able to say anything until after the episode aired where I got removed from the jury.

I haven’t had any contact with Forrest since we left the island a few months ago. I didn’t get along with him, which you saw. I gave to him exactly what I got, so I could take it and dish it out. What you didn’t see was that Forrest went way more personal with his attacks on me than I did on him. From day one, I was targeted and harassed by him. Because I went on walks, he told everyone I had a Hidden Immunity Idol, and I found out pretty early that that was what he was going around saying. He would do this every single time that I would go away, so that’s why I took off my bra and threw my bag at him, so he’d stop coming after me. It worked for a while, but then the pig incident happened and it started up again. I felt like I wanted to get back at Forrest for those few days, so I released the pig. The only person I felt a little bad for was Giacomo, because I know how badly he wanted it, and he hadn’t been picking on me like Forrest and Alissa had. You saw a little bit of Forrest taunting me for not wanting fish, but it went further than that. He’d make snide remarks about how they were putting the vegetarian things in for me and I was only allowed to eat those. Of course you and I both saw that Ophelia was vegetarian from the first day on the island. I knew that someone else had to have been vegetarian and it was just more targeted harassment from him.

On Sanjay, I know I didn’t listen to him, and I have actually reached out and spoken to him since the show was filmed. We’re on good terms now and I hope he sees this and understands just how sick of Forrest I was. Um, but yeah, I said some hurtful things about Sanjay and I guess that frustration boiled over because he wasn’t listening to a word I said either, and I guess two people with completely different ideas don’t get along. I was never going to work with Jeonsa. I was always going to flip and get Forrest out, but I wasn’t exactly going to go right to the Hwangjies either. I was going to work with them because I didn’t want to play a boring game, but I had intended to take him, Ophelia and Kenji to the final four, where I would have either voted out him or Ophelia. I find it pretty funny that he’s working with Ophelia now after being so upset at the possibility of working with her in the game, so I spoke to him about that, too, and he’s apologised. I apologised to him and we’re fine.

I haven’t got a clue who’s fifth and who’s fourth, because I was sequestered after I was voted off. They took me to a new place, and I still had things like food from a chef, a shower and things to do. It was pretty relaxing. I’ve had a couple of people Tweet me asking who I’d vote for if I was on the jury. I was always voting for Ophelia, and if she wasn’t there, then I would have voted for Giacomo. If neither of them were there, I would have reluctantly voted for Cleo. I just could not stomach voting for Sanjay, and especially not Forrest, given how he treated me in the game.

So, there you have it. It was targeted harassment from Forrest over my vegetarianism and style of play, and not just because I was petty. I figured that Forrest wasn’t going anywhere because we kept winning, so I thought, if I was going to be targeted and harassed by him, then I would do the same thing in return. If Forrest’s family were personally offended by anything I did, then I apologise to them, because my issue is with him. If I went too far and upset anyone watching, I’m sorry for that too. I’m sure Forrest will see this and I expect him to reply to it, so this won’t be the end, but it’s my side of the story. I’m kind of frustrated that the edit didn’t show Forrest’s targeting of me to the extent that it happened on the island and made me out to look like the petty one, but I understand it. No one would want to watch that shit.

Thanks for listening, guys.

Note: Forrest Tweeted shortly after this video was made that he had seen the video and would go live on his own Facebook the next day to respond.