The Problem: USA’s Michele Fitzgerald has no plans to make amends with costar Amanda Garcia after their heated alternate earlier this season.
“I don’t foresee us ever speaking outdoors of the sport. Hear, inside the sport, I respect the truth that she’s a mother and I at all times ask how [her son] Avonni’s doing, no matter, I hold it easy,” Michele, 33, solely instructed Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 3. “However yeah, we’re apple and oranges. We’re by no means going to be associates.”
Previous to her elimination throughout the Thursday, October 5, episode of The Problem: USA, Michele had a battle with Amanda, 29, throughout episode 2, which aired in August. “F—okay you, Amanda trigger I do know you navigated this vote,” Michele instructed Amanda after receiving three votes for elimination. “Show it, bitch,” Amanda shot again.
Michele in the end survived the elimination after beating Ameerah Jones within the Area, however her beef with Amanda continued again in the home. Throughout the battle, Amanda introduced up the pair’s shared historical past with fellow competitor Faysal “Fessy” Shafaat. (Amanda and Fessy, 31, had a fling in 2021, the identical yr that Fessy and Michele sparked romance rumors after hitting it off on The Problem: Lies, Spies and Allies.)
“You have been huge canine on the market [in the Arena], be huge canine in right here,” Amanda mentioned. “I’m sorry Fessy didn’t need you and he dropped you when he noticed me. I’m sorry you hate me for that.”
“You’re so petty, Amanda,” Michele replied. “You’re so hung up on Fessy.”
Michele instructed Us that she believes Amanda enjoys the drama. “I feel that Amanda does issues for shock worth. I feel that she likes having beef with individuals,” she mentioned. “I feel that she desires to stir the pot. I feel that that’s how she, I don’t know, secures her callback [for future seasons], I assume.”
Along with her unhealthy blood with Amanda, the Survivor alum additionally butted heads with Michaela Bradshaw throughout her remaining episode of the season.
“That battle was really, like, 45 minutes [long],” Michele instructed Us of the heated dialog, wherein Michaela, 32, accused Michele of “unraveling” and criticized her gameplay. (The drama started after Michele went towards Michaela and their allies Desi Williams and Chanelle Howell by voting to maintain Tori Deal protected from elimination.)
Michele continued: “I feel that I play a really social sport and I play very emotional and Michaela takes all of her feelings out of every little thing that she does and he or she performs so logical. … So, it’s exhausting for her to grasp the kind of sport that I play. It’s exhausting for me to grasp the kind of sport that she performs. And since we tried to work collectively for so long as we did, clearly you simply begin grating, grating, grating on one another till it clearly explodes.”
As for the place she stands with Michaela now, Michele instructed Us that she sees it as a part of the sport.
“I’m on my fifth season [of reality competition shows]. … If I took every little thing personally, I might haven’t any associates and I might be sitting in a darkish room in a nook someplace,” she mentioned. “I feel Michaela is a really totally different particular person than I’m and I don’t assume that [she’s] essentially a foul particular person.”
Regardless of her elimination from The Problem: USA after dropping to Cassidy Clark within the Area, Michele has a shot at redemption on The Problem: Battle for a New Champion, which premieres on MTV October 25.
“There’s fights, there’s hookups, there’s drama,” she teased in regards to the upcoming season.
The Problem: USA airs on CBS Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET.