Citron Rose left the Big Brother Canada adventure last week, during the final episode of the season. She was among the last four candidates to live in the house.
Throughout the weeks, her game has been heavily criticized on social media, and she received her fair share of hate. We had the chance to talk with her after her exit, and discussed this point with her.
“Social media was my job,” she first tells us. “I’ve been doing this for almost six years. So yes, I expected there to be positives and negatives, but it doesn’t affect me as much as one might think because I’m used to negative comments. It’s true that it’s a different context because it’s on television. This means that it’s a public who may not have known me. They judged me based on what they saw on TV. When I watched the show, I thought to myself: ‘hey, this adventure is 16 stories and experiences in parallel. So each candidate has their own story, their own 24 hours x 76, if you made it to the end.’ The story told on TV is the 17th story.”
“It’s made for entertainment, it’s heavily edited. There are many things missing,” she adds.
She continues, “I absolutely understand that. It’s normal. And personally, as a viewer of Big Brother, I had opinions about players, types of games that I liked more than others. So it’s not something that can really affect me personally because I understand and I put things into perspective a lot.”
What we didn’t see on screen that she would have liked us to see is mainly the “why”.
“You know, I have the ‘leaky basket’ label a lot. And I shared a lot of information with many people – almost every week – but we don’t understand why I was doing that. It’s really because I did a lot of blocks and I didn’t have the advantage of being able to win challenges.”
“I never had control. I wasn’t necessarily strong in competitions. I also didn’t have keys for a large part of the adventure. What I had was my word, myself, my information, the secrets. It was my currency, it was my keys.”
“And even if I was considered a ‘leaky basket’ in the house, I still managed to gather information, even from people who didn’t trust me, because I had this argument, I had this strategy,” she confides.
Citron Rose specifically reflects on William’s elimination. “He was a great player who was really a big strategist and pulled a lot of strings in the game. But for me, since the first week, I knew he was someone I potentially wanted to eliminate from the game because he was a threat. I pretended to work with Will and Pascal, but that didn’t show on screen. People think I really worked with them, sincerely, and that I betrayed them. But I needed, in my game, to pretend to work with them in order to weaken them more.”
Citron will take a few weeks off to decompress from the pressure of this infernal Big Brother Canada house before returning to work. We wish her a peaceful return!
