?SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? As seen in the episodes, Sage began targeting Savannah early in the game, while they were still on Uli beach together in the first week. She had seen how much influence the 31-year-old was already accruing, and wanted to try to start a movement against her early on."When we pulled up to the beach for the first time, before we even walked up to our actual campsite, Savannah started talking and I was like, 'Crap...she's a huge threat,'" she recounts. "She just had this really captivating energy about her, and I could see everyone light up when she would talk to them. I don't have that."To test the waters of her ability to put the hit out on Savannah, Sage actually began planting a seed that would sound quite familiar to fans. She reveals she told Shannon Fairweather her suspicion that Savannah had a military background, based on the limited amount of information the latter was disclosing. The irony, of course, is that it was Sage herself who was the undercover veteran, as she revealed to the jury on Day 26 that she had spent five years in the Army out of high school, and received a degree in Intelligence Operations Studies.The reason why Savannah was so secretive about her background, of course, is that she actually had been a former reporter up until a couple of years before playing the game. And while she didn't formally come out with this information until Day 26, Sage says that her lack of personal details about her life had everyone already suspicious of what she was hiding."When it came to her job, she was noticeably vague, saying only that she worked in 'marketing' and offering little else," she writes. "Everyone pieced together Savannah was a former reporter based on the fact that she had multiple reporter friends and the way she would count during mic checks. On the final day of the game, she said, 'Sage, I have a secret. I used to be a reporter.' And I said, 'Savannah. We know.'"
Related: Jeff Probst Reveals How ‘Survivor 49’ Players Were Chosen for Season 50 (Exclusive)Shannon had formed a Uli women's alliance with Sage and Savannah on the first day. But, enjoying safety through the first three episodes, Sage began to notice that Savannah was seemingly growing closer to Rizo Velovic. As another "test," she pitched that each of them partner up with one of the men. When Sage suggested Savannah pair up with Rizo, considering how close they had gotten, she apparently responded with confusion, saying she had no idea that was the case. It was in that moment that Sage decided the two would not be able to work together in a major way, and a feud was born.Sage acknowledges in her posts that, despite targeting Savannah initially purely strategically, there was "personal tension" that eventually manifested. We saw this most prominently in Episode 8, where she accused Savannah in confessional of seeing her not as a friend, but as a game piece. "You can continue being a mean girl, I’m not gonna let it affect me," she stated. "And I can be a mean girl too."
Savannah Louie (L) and Sage Ahrens-Nichols (R) on 'Survivor 49'Courtesy of CBS
The next day, a couple of people had mentioned to Sage that they saw Savannah clearly emotional after coming back from her own confessional. She found her down by the water, crying, and offered to talk to her again. In that moment, Savannah opened up about the isolation she was feeling being at the bottom of the tribe and her struggles to connect with people. And Sage used the opportunity to bring up their conversation from the day before, and how she had made her feel invalidated in the process."She grabbed my arm and said, 'Sage, sometimes you have to grab me and say, 'Savannah, it's not all about you.' Because I tend to get defensive and make it about me, instead of considering other people's feelings,'" she writes. "Hearing that, I felt enormous respect for her, because admitting that kind of self-awareness isn't easy. In that moment, the personal tension between us was completely resolved. From my perspective, any personal conflict was done."Talking with Parade in the preseason, Sage said she had an ability to compartmentalize between the personal and game-focused aspects of Survivor. And so, even though she and Savannah had reconciled, this did not deter her from the conclusion she came to from the very start of the season, through sitting together in the Final Three."She remained my number one target in the game," she affirms. "No personal connection or resolution changed that — she was the biggest threat and therefore had to go."Interestingly, one of the final things Sage wrote about in her mini-memoir was who she would have voted for if she had to break a tie. She says it became clear to her early on that she would be finishing in third place and, according to Survivor rules, if the jury had split their votes between Savannah and Sophi Balerdi, Sage would be the one to decide the winner. Sage admits, in the moment, she was more taken with Sophi's arguments, having claimed she spied on her former tribemates by climbing a tree. But she admits now, "If I had known it was a lie at the time, I would have likely chosen Savannah."
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