EW: When we spoke the day before the game began, you mentioned that if you made it to the end, you were thinking of offering to donate your winnings to ALS research in honor of Stacy and asking CBS to do a dollar to dollar match. With that in mind, what were you thinking on day 1 when you found out the grand prize was actually $2 million?
Yul: My first thought was, "Dang, I should have just said I was going to donate a million dollars instead of all my winnings." I'm just kidding, of course. Well, mostly. No, no, I'm kidding.
Seriously, though, I was thinking that $2 million could really make a difference in terms of funding ALS research and support. And then I thought my mom would probably kill me if I gave away $2 million dollars. And then I thought maybe I could tell my mom that I was on a special charity edition of
Survivor where you couldn't actually keep any money. And then I thought why am I stressing out so much about my mother? And then I thought I really shouldn't have skipped that last appointment with my therapist.
