On this week’s episode of “Survivor” — airing Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Global — viewers watched the million-dollar dream of Desiree Williams go up in a puff of smoke when host Jeff Probst extinguished her torch after she was voted off by the rest of her tribe.

The 27-year-old physical therapist from Georgia became the latest victim of the “Survivor” anomaly known as “being too good,” with her tribemates deciding to take her out of the game early because of the threat she would have no doubt posed later in the game.

While Desi won’t be taking home a million dollars, she becomes the first member of the “Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers” jury, ultimately holding the key to determining the ultimate winner.

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ET Canada spoke with Desi after the airing of her exit, and she discusses how her skills in the challenges and her steadfast loyalty to Joe wound up sending her home.

You looked very distraught after getting voted off. What was the most heartbreaking part?

“I think the toughest part was knowing I knew exactly what to do in that moment to keep myself from being voted off. I knew I could have voted Joe and I would have stayed in the game, and I just couldn’t bring myself to do that one thing that would keep myself safe in the game, and that was to go against my one alliance and my one ally left in the game.”

Why do you think it was you everyone voted for instead of Joe?

“I sort of take it as a compliment that they voted for me over Joe because they felt like in that moment I was a bigger threat long-term to potentially win the game. Whereas Joe was getting on everybody’s nerves and it had become clear that Joe was not coming anywhere near winning any of the individual immunity challenges. On top of that, I think he had pissed off enough people at this point in the game that even if he were somehow to make it to the final three, everybody hated him and they were absolutely not going to give him their vote at the final Tribal Council. I think I was the complete opposite vote; I was performing really well in the individual immunity challenges and I think I was well respected by the other players. Potentially, had I made it to the final three, there’s a strong possibility they would have voted for me than in favour of Joe.”

Why did you vote for Lauren and not Joe?

Joe, over the course of the game, our relationship was up and down, up and down. But at this point in the game, more so than anywhere else, he was the only person I had trusted in the game. I tried to form alliances with Ben, and with Lauren, with Devon, with Ashley. We talked about who we were going to vote for, and then they voted for someone else. So everyone in the game had lied to my face time and time again — except for Joe. Inherently I’m a loyal person, so we had gotten to a point in the game where I felt like Joe was loyal to me, and the only person who was loyal to me. And I had told him I’d be loyal to him, and at that point in the game I morally felt like I had to maintain that relationship or else there would be larger implications and trust issues for me down the line.”

How much did Lauren’s advantage factor into you going home?

“I haven’t really thought to look back and count the votes, but I think regardless of whether Lauren had played the advantage or not, I was gonna go home. But I guess I should go back and count the votes.” [Laughs]

Why didn’t the Healers just vote together?

“I was under the complete understanding that we were all voting together. My Lauren vote, I didn’t think it was random at all. I thought all four of us — or at least that’s the last conversation I had with the Healers, was that all four of us were voting for Lauren. So I thought we were voting together with the understanding, or at least guessing, that the remainder were going to me and Joe and maybe somebody would flip-flop and we would end up victorious. So that’s why I voted for Lauren, and thought everybody else was going to as well.”

How hard were you scrambling after the immunity challenge?

“Scrambling in the sense that that was the first day I tried to approach Chrissy about maybe working together, and it was very clear she was not interested in working together. I’ve already had those conversations with Lauren, with Ben, and I sort of thought Lauren was on the same spot voting for us, I also knew Joe would try to work his magic on his end. So I felt we had a good possibility… I mean, all we needed if the Healers stuck together was one other person, because we knew that they were splitting votes, and we thought we had it. It just unfortunately didn’t play out the way I… I was understanding that things were going to play out, specifically with the Healers, who I was the most disappointed in.”

While obviously winning that first immunity challenge must have been a bucket-list check-off, do you think it might have hindered your game in any way?

“No, I actually don’t. It became, I think, clear very early on, when we were still playing a team game, that I was a challenge threat. And even to my shock: there were things happening in challenges that were coming naturally to me, that were very easy to me, and other people were struggling with. Walking across the balance beam with a bag of rice on your head, doing the worms in the sand — those things were very easy to me, so I think there was already a target on my back. I actually think had I not won that first individual immunity challenge I would have gone home instead of Jessica, because I think they already saw me as enough of a threat at that point.”

Of the three tribes you were in, which one was your favourite?

“Oh, the first Soko tribe for sure. We loved each other, and all game play and bad moves aside in the game, we still love each other. I still talk to them, probably every single day in our group chat. The original Healer tribe, the original Soko tribe, is still a strong alliance outside the game of ‘Survivor’ even if we crumble in the game.”

So what has it been like watching it back on TV?

“Oh my gosh, at times mortifying. It’s weird because I get super stressed out watching it every single week. For some reason, watching a challenge still raises my blood pressure. So that can be awful to watch, but in no way have I been edited to be a villain or, like, the most hated character in a season of ‘Survivor’, so for that I’m grateful. It’s not as painful in that regard as I thought it would be, just a little disappointed in how little air time I got.”

If you ever got the chance to play again, what tribe division or theme do you think you would excel in?

“Wow, I think we need a whole season of all challenges. It’s so weird to me, even though challenge threats or physical threats never win the game of ‘Survivor’… all challenge threats would become strictly about the social game, and we don’t have to worry about being too good at that stuff. Because to me that takes away the fun, like if I’m throwing the challenge on purpose then that takes away from the fun of the physical part of the game of ‘Survivor’.”

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