On Wednesday night’s episode of “Survivor: Ghost Island” on Global, 18 castaways of Malolo and Naviti were all summoned together and Jeff Probst uttered one of his innumerable catchphrases, “Drop your buffs!”

It had only been a week since the marooning and it seemed somewhat early for a tribe swap, yet after settling into their respective beaches original tribe bonds within the divisions seemed to hold fast.

After losing the immunity challenge to Malolo, the new Naviti was sent to Tribal Council where they had to determine which player’s torch would be snuffed.

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It was unfortunate for killer-whale trainer Morgan Ricke that she couldn’t save herself by playing the Legacy Advantage – the immunity idol that can only be played when there are 13 or six players left in the game – sent to her by “Ghost Island“‘s first resident, Jacob Derwin. Instead, the blazing, fiery eyes of the “Survivor” Gods haunted Ricke, as she cursed her way out of the game.

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ET Canada spoke to Ricke on Thursday to talk about who betrayed her, the Legacy Advantage and how she was able to help support the Parkland, Fla. students after she returned home:

Who do you credit most with orchestrating your demise in the game?

I feel like a lot of people want me to give James credit, but ultimately I give Libby all the credit because had she not written my name down at Tribal then I wouldn’t have gone home. So I know James initially, a little more initially said my name… but Libby was actually the one who made the plan happen.

Who did you feel betrayed by the most? How long did that bitterness last?

I definitely felt betrayed by Libby the most, but it didn’t last. I made my little blonde comment, like ‘you’re blonde, can’t trust you’ and then I was over it. Like I said, game respects game and there’s no hard feelings there whatsoever.

If you could go back to that Tribal Council, how would you argue to keep yourself in the game?

That’s a tough one. I could have maybe pulled out my Legacy Advantage. ‘Look guys, this is what I have. You don’t know what it is. I’m going to play it tonight.’ I don’t know if that would have helped, maybe it would have stirred up some stuff, but at Tribal I had a little idea that I might be on the chopping block but if I wasn’t I didn’t want to do something crazy to throw my name out there that makes me kind of the centre of attention. I wanted to play it cool, obviously didn’t work out in my favour, but I was trying the whole Tribal to kind of get Libby on my side. Like ‘I trust you girl, I love you girl, you’re awesome! Stick with me.’ So that’s why I was kind of boosting her ego a little bit because I felt a little bit of that awkward vibe. Like ‘Oh crap, she may vote me out’ and I was right about that. But I’m not sure the guys, all four of us should be sticking together, going to rocks, or a whole lot I could have done. I don’t like leaving my fate in the hands of rocks because I did already did that with the tribe swap and in the rock-draw for Ghost Island I didn’t want another leaving it to fate or chance.

What made you decide to will the Legacy Advantage to Dom? And who would your second choice have been?

Wendell would have been my second choice. I was super close with Dom and Wendell, I just had a stronger connection with Dom. We just had more conversations, more time to really sit down and connect on a personal level. I learned about his family, we talked about his jobs, so I just felt a really good connection with him from the very, very, very beginning of the game.

Is it safe to say that you didn’t reverse the curse of the Legacy Advantage?

Well I’m going to say it’s safe to say Jacob didn’t reverse the curse, because he couldn’t keep his big mouth shut. I kept my mouth shut! So we’ll see if me keeping my mouth shut reverses the curse for Domenick.

What would you say your ultimate downfall was? Why was it you?

I really don’t think I had a huge ultimate downfall. I think my downfall was that I was strong physically and everyone saw that and I obviously was strong socially. I mean I got the first advantage based on me being smiley and happy and Jacob getting good vibes from me. It’s just good social game. I don’t know what it is. I obviously had Libby (who) I thought was on my side, but we really did connect. I saw how hard it was for her to boot me off. So the social connections were there, the physical aspects of the game were there. I think I got unlucky with the drop in the rock-draw, but I don’t think there’s a lot that I would have done differently, or a lot that I really regret.

How hard were you idol-hunting out there?

I only… no not really. I had a Legacy Advantage and that was hard enough to keep hidden, to keep people snooping out of my bag and where I hid it and stuff … and I had [an]… idea that Dom might have one. I knew he had the fake one, but I had a really good idea that he had a real one, so I wasn’t sure that there was another one out there besides that.

What was it like being at home watching the episode?

My heart was pounding just as much, maybe a little more seeing it as it was being there at Tribal Council, that’s for sure.

What did you learn about yourself playing “Survivor”?

The number one thing I learned is that I was just as strong as I always thought I was. I knew I could play this game, I knew I could play it physically. I knew I was going to be physically strong, I knew I was going to be socially strong, but I didn’t know how I would handle you know, the low amount of food we got. You know, just the elements out there and it was oddly easier than I thought. So I had a lot of energy left, I was ready to go, I was ready to keep playing… If anything I learned that all the confidence I had in myself, I should have even more of that because I am as strong as I always thought I was.

Can you talk to us about how you were able to help support the Parkland. Fla. students?

Yes, so basically I obviously work for an amazing company and we do so much for all kinds of people in the community. We have all these foundations we work closely with. So we do good stuff like this all the time, so it was so nice being able to invite the kids to SeaWorld and just get their minds off of what happened. SeaWorld’s a happy place for people to forget about their worries and they get to be entertained and educated and inspired. And it was just really cool being able to help out just a little bit and just to get them away for a day, and just allow them to be kids again and have fun and to not have to worry a lot about what’s happening in the world. Just to give their minds a break from all that.

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