The biggest obstacle I had to overcome in my life happened two days before I got out here. I changed my wedding day to come out here. Is today Memorial Day? I was supposed to get married May 27 in the United States. And I got this call, "You're on Survivor!" We'd done sent out invitations, we'd done done everything. And we took it all back. We changed venues, sent out new invitations, got new everything. And I got married two days before flying out here, just so I could come play this game.

That's how much Survivor means to me. And luckily I have a wife — I can say wife now — who loves Survivor also. So any other thing that would have come up, it wouldn't have happened. But yeah, that was a huge obstacle. It was the most stressful month of my life. I should have been training for this, but instead I was planning a wedding. I was moving into a new house. I was doing all this stuff that life happens.

My wife didn't believe it because ever since we've been dating, I've told her I was gonna be on Survivor. And it's become one of those things like saying you're gonna win the lottery, it's one of those chances. And she knows my love for the game. That's what I told Jeff and those guys in casting. On Valentine's Day, she would get me the buffs, and so I have the love for the game and she knows that. And all of our families know that. And that's the reason I'm out here is because they made sacrifices also. Instead of me having to worry about it all, her having to worry about it all, they all made sacrifices out of their lives to make the wedding happen. So if the wedding didn't happen, I wouldn't be out here.