In addition to composing with extreme heat, lack of sleep, hunger and adrenaline, howlers, snakes and other Bibists of the Panamanian jungle, personalities face their greatest fears to Get me out here!. The adventure ended too early for Kim Rusk, the first celebrity to leave the adventure.
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Kim, how did you react when you were approached to participate in Get me out here!?
I watched the first season with my daughter and each episode, I said to myself: “It’s so much the kind of adventure that I would like to live at least once in my life!”. So I wrote to producer Jean-Philippe Dion, to tell him about my desire to participate.
And what attracted you to this adventure?
Overcoming yourself, the pleasure of getting out of my comfort zone and the desire to do something just for me, because I wanted. In life, I work a lot by whim. Once production confirmed to me that I would be in the third season, I started to anxiety. (laughs)
Why then?
I am like that: I embark on a project and I think afterwards! (laughs) My biggest challenge at Get me out here!, It was not the heat, the heights, the bites, hunger … physically, I am able to take it. In my case, it was really the fact of moving away from my daughter Billie, six and a half years old.
How did you prepare it for your departure?
We had some discussions about the fact that I would leave without her. Question that she is not bored too much, I had prepared little words, gifts, new doggies so that she feels that I think of her every day. The worst for me was not to be able to call him, not to be able to write to him, because my daughter and I have a fairly fusional relationship. Arriving on the camp, Brigitte Lafleur was also bored a lot of her daughter Agathe, 10 years old. I think it’s completely normal when you have young children.
-You made a whole entry into the game, in front of finding numbers at the bottom of a water tank filled with snakes and caimans …
During my interview with the production before my departure in Panama, I revealed that I was not afraid of much, but I hate having to hold my breath, my head in the water. It was therefore obvious that I was going to have a challenge related to this phobia. But my worst challenge was certainly the one where you had to get your hands on mysters, to release the new camper Sonia Vachon.
The snakes particularly gave you a hard time!
This challenge was much more difficult in real life than the result on the screen! When I entered the box, the huge snakes felt that I was an intruder, and they didn’t make my task easy. I gave myself so much in this ordeal that I had a huge bruise on my arm.
Following the jungle gala, you were the first camper eliminated. How did you feel?
I was angry, disappointed, I had trouble. If some campers thought of leaving themselves at the start of the adventure, I had big fun and I saw myself spinning to the final. Being the first outing never crossed my mind. We embark on this game in order to face our greatest fears … Well, don’t stay long enough in the game, staying hungry in terms of surpassing yourself, bored my daughter, that was, in the end, my biggest fears.
You had to be happy with the idea of finding your daughter!
When I got to the hotel after the gala, I had access to my cell phone. When I took my messages, I had one of my tears. I have confidence that life is doing things well. If I had to leave so early, it was to find Billie. That said, I will continue to take time for myself, to leave from time to time without my daughter, but not so long, and not so far, and with my cellular never far!
In closing, what foundation did you play?
Parkinson Quebec. I did not have to think a single second to choose this cause, it was so obvious to me, since my little love dad suffers from this disease. In addition, I have known the people of the Foundation for years, they are extraordinary people, devoted to the cause. I am happy to highlight their foundation.
https://parkinsonquebec.ca
