Survivor star Colby Donaldson had a rough go of it on the newest season. Donaldson left the show during the most recent episode. He has played the game four times in total.
During the most recent episode, the Survivor contestant suffered a foot injury as well. At one moment, crew considered medically evacuating him due to the injury.
Speaking to People, he explained, "I appreciated seeing that part of the conversation. I didn't realize they had that discussion. Not a bad discussion to have because the truth is I had two injuries in the same foot. One was a torn ligament. That wouldn't have taken me out of the game. It was painful, but the doc said, "Look, Colby, it's gonna suck for you. You're not going to do very good in the challenges. However, it's not something I'm going to take you out of the game [for]."
'Survivor' Star Talks Injury
He said, "The other injury, which was unrelated but on the same foot, was a puncture wound I got somewhere that introduced some bacteria that led to an infection. That infection kept getting worse day after day, starting on day 9 and last night's episode was day 12. So we had been monitoring it. I couldn't hide it from everyone because my limp was so bad, and my pride and ego helped me off the tribal council stage. But around camp, it was obvious that I had an injury. Because they can't treat it in the game, that infection was only going to fester and get worse, and it was on the bottom of my foot, so it wasn't something I could keep clean necessarily all the time."
However, he became aware that he was leaving Survivor so wanted to go out on his own terms.
He said, "Dr. Joe talked to me right before tribal and said, "Colby, we've got to do something about this, and I can't give you any antibiotics in the game." And I said, "Well, I'm going home tonight. For some reason, if something gets squirrelly and I don't get voted out, we'll address it tomorrow. But please let me go to this final tribal — my final tribal — and say my goodbyes." So he did."
