35 days of adventure. The 32-year-old professional photographer has nothing to be ashamed of for her performance. Despite his successes on the trials and his good mood on the camp, his alliances began to fade since the departure of his ally from the game, Clémence. Coming in – narrowly – second in the immunity test, Laura knew her fate was sealed.
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- Survey - Who is your favorite columnist in "TPMP"?
LE FIGARO. - You were looking for an adventure bigger than the one you live daily in your van, did you find it?
LAURA: Completely. The adventure of "Koh-Lanta" transports us where we did not think we would go, both in survival, sportingly or humanly. Even though I didn't want anything, I found what I didn't even expect. I am someone who already knew myself very well but, by pushing me to my limits, the adventure allowed me to know myself even better. On the other hand, the show did not change my life, except that I wanted to find comfort so I took an apartment. I still have my truck but I use it punctually.
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During the episode, Tania returns in extremis on the camp with... a chocolate fondant. His attitude annoys you...
I had a very good relationship with Tania. She was one of the only ones I didn't talk to about strategy but about things outside of the adventure. At that moment, we were hungry and the way she arrived at the camp announcing that she might not have shared with us... I think she was clumsy. She wasn't going to eat on the sly! We had all been starving for 35 days so it wasn't happening. At the beginning of the adventure, I closed the door on her because I thought she was not on the show for the same reasons as me. The door opened again when she came back and was no longer paired with Benjamin.
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In the immunity test, you just miss out on first place. What's going on in your head when you realize it's been a matter of seconds?
I'm angry. Internally, I am bubbling but I also have trouble becoming aware of things. At the same time, I am proud of this second place and also disgusted because it was played at two seconds. If it had been played at two minutes, I wouldn't have been able to win. But then, really, I messed up and took me a while to finish. I was narrow-minded by saying to myself "we started from the top right, we have to go out at the top left", and no (laughs). I just blame myself. This is the only moment I regret because I can only blame myself.
Clémence, your buddy of the adventure, has been eliminated two tips before you. How did you experience it?
It was the hardest start for me as I saw my ally go. On top of that, I had betrayed Nico and Julie to save Clémence so it was very difficult. My adventure took another turn at that moment.
During the linked destinies, you lie in Nicolas' eyes and vote for him, why?
I just had no other choice to save Clemence. At this point, I trusted Quentin and Clémence was sure of Frédéric (in tandem with Tania). I'm not someone who got to the heart of the strategy. So, by elimination, I voted against the duo of Nicolas and Julie. In fact, I don't really vote against them but I'm trying to save Clémence.
"You can see that they are voting against me because they are afraid of me at the orientation"
Laura
Yet you were very close to Nicolas at the beginning of the adventure...
He had a deeper affinity with Julie than with me, during the recomposition of the teams. These are things that cannot be explained. And we see it from the reunification: if he has to save a girl, it's no longer me, it's Julie. Whereas at the base, the boys said that if they had to take a girl away it was me. At this stage of the adventure - even if I had not betrayed Nico - it is clear that they vote against me because they are afraid of me at orientation. I may have given them a card to say 'vote against me'.
Do you think that's what precipitated your downfall?
In the end, betrayal only explains my elimination in the second place. The first reason is that I scared them. I am a very methodical, patient, calm person. I have a good sense of direction and, naïve as I am, I said so. So I think I was scary at that time.
How do you feel when you see your name on the last piece of paper?
I knew it. I had polled the votes – even though it was something I didn't normally do – I felt unsafe. I am not fooled. Looking for the necklace, I was already doing a retrospective of my adventure. I knew I was going to leave and I didn't want to relaunch a strategy, alliances. Now, in hindsight, I would have done it. We think about a lot of things, I would have protected Tania with my talisman. Even our women's wedding ring stopped far too soon...
If you had to relive the "Koh-Lanta" experience, would you change anything? How would you apprehend it?
It's a bit like when you discover a game and do a warm-up lap. We discover new things. I might have more restraint on my revelations, I might go more into the strategy. After I say that but I'm not a strategist. If it turns out, I'd be exactly the same. My naivety and empathy would lose me just as much...