Celebrity Big Brother has hit the scene! After every eviction, Parade’s Mike Bloom interviews the latest celebrity to leave the Big Brother house.

When it comes to Big Brother, emotions are tough to compromise. With $250,000 at stake, your heart typically tends to wear on your sleeve, especially when the competition begins to heat up and the end becomes more in focus. Olympian Lolo Jones is a competitor at heart, which informed the passion with which she approached the game. But that enthusiasm also fired up her temper many times in the house, most prominently when she was stunningly denied a spot in the final two from her ally Ricky Williams

When Lolo saw that she was entering the house alongside fellow Olympian Ryan Lochte, she thought the two of them would be good as gold. But she soon became jealous of his growing relationship with actor Jonathan Bennett, culminating in obscene gestures towards them. Her attitude changed very quickly, and she joined up with her roommates Ricky, Natalie Eva Marie, and Tamar Braxton to start to gun for the athletic guys. Though her game plan changed, her temper never did. Lolo spent many of her 29 days in the house getting into arguments, whether it was with Tamar about her paranoia towards them, or former allies Tom Green and Kato Kaelin about squashing a plan to backdoor Ricky.

The trinity of Lolo, Natalie, and Ricky faced their first significant hurdle in Tom’s must-need second Head of Household win. And while Lolo had experience with hurdles, allowing her to jump over easily, Natalie got pinned, eliminating her closest ally. Luckily, Lolo was able to get payback during the double eviction, winning HoH and canceling The Tom Green Show. After winning the final Veto competition of the season, Lolo was confident that Ricky would honor the close alliance they had since the very beginning. But when he proved to be the master of “Celebrity Lookalike Junior” and won the final HoH, he chose to evict Lolo along with Dina Lohan, citing a deal early in the game that she elected not to take. Steaming, Lolo walked out of the house as the final person evicted, telling host Julie Chen Moonves she was now questioning whether to continue their friendship. Those feelings helped lead Lolo to cast her vote for Tamar to win, part of a unanimous consensus from the jury.

Now out of the house, Lolo talks with Parade about the reaction to her eviction, her response to the edit she received this season, and how her faith informed her game.

You vocalized a bit to Julie after your eviction why you feel like Ricky had already lost the game. Was that what ultimately made you cast your vote for Tamar?

The moment people saw me come out of the house instead of Tamar, they knew I had been the most loyal to Ricky. They were like, “Ricky wasn’t even loyal to the person who was most loyal to him.” Then the votes that would have gone to him automatically shifted. Natalie was definitely going to vote for Ricky, but when she saw my face, she said she automatically knew that something had gone wrong and she voted for Tamar. And she had no plans of voting for her.

Both you and the audience were shocked when Ricky didn’t pick you for the final two. What was going through your head at that moment?

It was frustrating. I really valued Ricky’s friendship over the course of the season. There are moments of gameplay and moments where you cross the line. Either you want to cross the line and win at all costs, or you stay true to your friendships. I had that moment with Natalie on the block where I could have gone and petitioned against her. But instead, we decided to talk it out because we knew our friendship was worth more than whatever prize money was there at the end of it, no matter how much we needed the money.

I felt like we had similar conversations with Ricky. Throughout the whole game, he was like, “I don’t really want to win, I just want to play a game my family would be proud of. I want to protect you and Nat; I feel called to protect you and Nat.” He made it a very spiritual thing. I find it disheartening to read comments saying I’m a sore loser. I’m not a sore loser; I lose all the time in track and field. I actually laugh when I lose. I’m just brokenhearted about what Ricky did to me. I don’t care that he didn’t pick me in the final. If he had told me straight up, “Hey, I think I have a better chance with Tamar,” I would have told him, “Hey man, go for it! The room alliance is cheering for you.” But instead, he tried to swing it and do his whole spiritual thing. That’s what I don’t appreciate. I know I lost a genuine friend. I will not be talking to Ricky after this.

You can run a race dirty or run a race proud. You can lose that race, but you’re still proud of your efforts. That’s the whole message that Ricky was saying the whole season. But when he made that decision, everyone in America saw him truly. It wasn’t just me; Julie said to me on stage, “I can’t believe I did it.” I was the most loyal to him. I saved him from being backdoored twice; Tamar never did that. Then I find out that he and Tamar tried to backdoor me last-minute if I didn’t win the heist Veto. He just came off like a false prophet. I thought what Ricky, Natalie, and I had was way deeper. We had so many deep heart-to-hearts; we prayed together. That’s something more than gameplay, that’s my spirituality. I think he went a little too far with it.

Let’s talk some more about your relationships. You and Ryan came in with the Olympian connection, but you two turned on each other quickly. Can you talk me through that series of events?

Off the bat, people assumed Ryan and I had this great friendship. I’ve seen Ryan Lochte twice in the three Olympic teams I’ve made. But people assumed that we had some sort of deal or friendship. Honestly, that was the most time I ever spent with him. I knew when I saw him onstage that everyone was going to assume we were allies before we even talked. I knew that could be a possible concern. It naturally worked out where we didn’t click. He wanted to be with the guys, and you could see the guys had a tight-knit pact and wanted to do an all guys thing. When I went on the show, I never wanted to do an all girl or all guy thing because I’ve worked in co-ed sports before. People assume we were natural buddies. I mean, we have the Olympics in common, and that’s going to give you some sort of brotherhood. But we weren’t friends going into this show.

It’s clear there was some conflict in the “Team Fun” alliance, and there were some cross words exchanged between you, Tom, and Kato. How do you look back on those confrontations now that the game is over?

The most frustrating thing is the way it was edited. Everybody has different personalities. But we were saying that certain people were doing these triggers, and it’s unacceptable. Now I’m getting out of the house and I’m being told that Natalie and I were being portrayed as bullies to Tom when it was quite the opposite. Tom and Kato were saying threatening things towards the women in the house, and that was all edited.

Your faith is obviously vital to you. How tough was it to play a duplicitous game like Big Brother while staying true to that?

Honestly, I can always do a better job with my faith, even in real life. I think that’s a problem when you’re a Christian; people assume you’re an angel and perfect in all things. So when they see you struggle with your temper or cuss, they don’t get it and start attacking you and saying you’re not a solid Christian. The people in the Bible are absolute hot messes! There’s a king who struggled with adultery; one of Jesus’ disciples murdered somebody. The people in the Bible are working on things, and those are the people who need help.

I’m always working on my faith, but it’s hard when you’re in the public spotlight and getting judges. People think you need to be this perfect work of art, but that’s not the case when you’re managing your faith and trying to work through things daily. Especially in an extreme environment, where things get twisted and you’re in a game about lies, plots, and schemes, it’s hard to keep your faith. Even now, I need time to process what happened. I am deeply hurt by this. I didn’t want things to get twisted. There were definitely moments where I fought, but the Tom and Kato stuff was twisted in editing, and I’m not happy about that.