"Of course you have him blackmailing you, which lead to your elimination, but you competed with him on two seasons, and neither one of you were early boots. Give me a breakdown of your feelings about him over time?"

He pretended to throw up, "I never trusted Scott, and knew he was up to no good. He kept on talking about the producers and stuff, when we were not supposed to break the fourth wall like that. To me, it seemed like he was trying to become a producer pet, and he's just a REALLY TRASHY person who didn't even bother to hide it. I remember Scott talking really poorly about B, made some other phobic comments against some of the cast, it was clear that he framed Dawn to get voted off, and Scott didn't like me because Zoey had a crush on me, and he had a crush on her, but of course he was rejected. And I know this because of the list that production had all of us create while we were on the yacht, which was used to determine who would be on what team."

Josh shook his head, "Yes, a few people made mention of the list of attractiveness, which each castaway was forced to write, but using it to create the teams made sense. Anyways, it has been spilled that it wasn't unrequited on his part, and she entertained it during the mid-game. Anyways, let's speed up time."

"From the moment Scott switched onto the Mutant Maggots, he spent ALL of his time with Zoey, and planted a bunch of lies and unnecessary trash about me, and claimed that I made Anne Maria take a "Day After" pill after we had raw sex, and a bunch of stuff. We got into a few arguments around the Mine challenge, and I was willing to vote him out even over Anne Maria, which said A LOT. After she quit, Scott and Zoey walked off together, and he wouldn't let me speak to her. Despite ALL THE FLIRTING he did with her, she STILL rejected him, but for some reason, she thought he was a good person, so I could not vote him out. Oh, and production gave him that idol; he didn't find it himself. You never see a scene of him finding it on the show, and that's for a reason. Of course there was my elimination episode, where he harassed me about my mental disorder, and tried flaming the personalities out as much as possible. When I tell you that they didn't even show HALF of his torment towards me. All of the insults he threw, bothering me over the smallest things, claiming that I must have been raped so hard that it caused me to get 5 extra personalities, all of that. I had nothing to say to him once he joined Playa des Losers, and I felt nothing for him. He was dead to me."

He was definitely in tune with the tea that was being discussed and revealed, "So what about "All-Stars"? I knew that you were not mentally or spiritually... present for half of the season, but there must be some other stuff that happened between the two of you. There was a... notable transition with him as well on the season. What did you think about it?"

Mike went out of his way to look as disinterested as possible, "It was very fake, and Scott was trying to control his image. He knew that he came off HORRIBLY during our season, so he wanted to use this season to redeem himself. He went out of his way to make the dumbest jokes, and to make himself look more of a victim, and more helpless than ever. The shovel swung by him was what caused Mal to appear, and what no one knows is that during the merge last season, Scott said that he would slam a shovel on my head to bring my personalities for good, and to trap me. He did EXACTLY what he was going to do a year ahead of time, and even him getting with Courtney was a part of a ploy. Scott after the season blamed me for ruining their relationship, and made more potshots at my disorder during the next cast meeting, though it was HIM who did that all on his own, because HE thought that ditching her would make him look more like a fav. His relationship was exposed to the inner TD circles, and he tried to sue all of us, while revealing a bunch of horrid stuff about us. Knowing him, he's still eating dirt as we speak."

"It's the reads and shade for me, hahahaha," Josh cackled, as he grabbed another picture. "Interesting that the both of you were kind of fighting over her. Anyways, did you deal with the first boot Staci at all?"

He shook his head horizontally, "Absolutely not for the most part. We were on opposite teams, and she was only a player for a day or two if I remember correctly. Even when we were on the yacht for a day or two beforehand, no one spoke to her because nothing she said made sense. Despite that, Staci had a lot to say about me, my mental illness, and the unfortunate love triangle that was formed on the season. She made icky posts about each of those topics throughout several blogs, selling a bunch of nasty stories, and would gossip about how Zoey and I did not kiss for the first year. I ignored it for as long as I could, but when this went into the airing of our second season, I had to call her out for it, and that she needed to spend more time figuring out, as well as living her own life, and finding her own family. She claimed it was a low blow, and tried to cry her way out of it. Outside of that, I don't, and haven't spoken to her over the last 9 years."

The interviewer was ready to get messy with things, as he pulled up a new stack, "Alrighty now. It is time to get into the players from the first cast that you competed with on "All-Stars", and I'm SURE there's going to be some nasty bitching about what some of them said about you. And arguably the most hated person from the cast is Alejandro. How was it like dealing with him?"

He just rolled his eyes, "So I was not in... consciousness for the second half of the season, so I was not aware of the fighting with him, and Mal. But in the first half, Alejandro treated me very poorly because he was supposed to be the new guy that everyone flocked over, and was bitter that "Revenge of the Island" got higher ratings than "World Tour", and felt like the entire fanbase and audience moved on to us. Al never got a chance to enjoy his season, and the audience response because he was hospitalized, and resented that we were able to enjoy our season. He would make belittling comments to everyone from the second cast, and he was VERY jealous, especially since he was stuck in the hospital for over a year. Al was asking me a bunch of questions about my disorder, and I was guarded about it, but answered the questions honestly. He started accusing me of lying about it, and using it because I have no personality on my own apparently, but he lied about his own injuries, claiming that he never walked, though several people on the yacht last year saw him walking, and he lied A LOT about his family, the abuse he went through, and claimed that he was raped by members of the first cast to blackball them. After the season, Al and Heather made a bunch of ablest comments against me, claimed that I not only ruined the show, but the series, claimed that I made Anne Maria get an abortion, and CONTINUED their lies post-season. We ended up fighting at the premiere party, and finale parties. I had to sue them to get them to shit the hell up about me."

"So Courtney is next on the list, so what do you think about her overall? She is another one who had a downfall because of Mal, and your incompetence to keep your mental issues in check," Josh hissed, as he gave Mike the picture.

A strained face showed up on his face once a picture of Courtney was presented to him, "Courtney is the one Heroic Hamster that I NEVER got along with. She just had this uppity attitude for no reason, as she felt like she was better than all of us, and we were all too lame, soft, and pathetic, but she didn't see herself as a villain either, when she acts worse than most of them. She was very uncooperative, very unsupportive, very spoiled, and very entitled, and she's not that talented to be honest, compared to how much she hypes herself up. If it wasn't for Lindsay being so isolated and whiny, Courtney would have went home first, and we would have voted her out next if we lost another challenge. I noticed VERY early on how jealous she was of Zoey, and I didn't get it at first, but it made more sense later on. She was jealous of Zoey because despite all of Courtney's qualities, she does not have likability, and that isn't something that could be bought or learned. Zoey was a better and more respected player without doing all of the dirty shenanigans that Courtney needed to not be a pre-merge flop again. And then she tried to sue me for what happened on the show, and claimed that I knew before signing on the season that I had a relapse, which WAS slanderous, and what she didn't mention is that I would mention who her boyfriend is, and THAT's when she left me alone."

Josh wanted to stir stuff up with this next person, "So it was revealed on the show that Duncan knew you, or at least knew Mal in prison, but we NEVER got your side of this. Now is your chance to clear things up, and I am assuming he blamed YOU for a lot of the mess that happened with him during the season as well, just like many others did."

"Oh my goodness, I'm gonna... gonna try and keep it together explaining this," Mike started to elaborate, with tears starting to form and fall from his eyes, and his breath being constrained. "Mal showed up due to a... combination of a crash, and an... attack. Mal started appearing, and he was the hardest to control, so I had several episodes. This one was the worst, where he... robbed several businesses, and then was apparently charged with aggravated assault. I remember NONE of this, but then when I got to juvie, they went through my medical records and psychoanalyzed me, so they found out about my disorder, and kept me in isolation. From MY memories of being in jail, I was in the same room the entire time, but when I was Mal, apparently he broke out and ran the place. I NEVER saw Duncan in juvie, so when he was arrested, I sent him a few messages apologizing for everything that happened, and he didn't forgive me at first. A lot of his friends from his season were falling out with him, like DJ and Owen. Both of those were VERY public, and I felt bad for him."

He was not ready to see Mike get emotional, and to be on the verge of having a meltdown, "Wow... I did not want to see you breaking down like this. Did you apologize to him about what happened, even if you didn't remember any of it?"

Mike covered his eyes, and had to stop himself from hyperventilating, "After... ALL of the backlash, I had to REALLY look into myself, and how I handled things throughout my time on the show. My visit to him wasn't agreed upon with him at first, and I was VERY MUCH expecting him to rip my head off when I arrived. But we sat down like two grown men, cleared everything up, and he... BALLED HIS EYES OUT in front of me. NO ONE visited him outside of Zoey, and he was so thankful that I came to visit. Once he was released, Duncan needed... A LOT of support, financially and otherwise. So I gave him some references, helped him build his life up together, and he genuinely forgave me, so we are good friends. Zoey and I have tried to get him and Gwen to meet up, and to resolve their issues, but both of them have refused up to this current day."

"Alrighty then, let's move onto Gwen. I remember on the season, she became close to Cameron, and Zoey, two of your best friends. But I don't remember either one of you interacting with one another throughout the season."

"Because we didn't," Mike bluntly stated. "Gwen was on opposite teams, and she was dealing with her deteriorating relationship with Duncan, and trying to win over Courtney for us to really interact. And obviously, I was not present in the second half of the season, so we couldn't speak then. It was on our way home where we finally had a discussion, and she told me to not feel bad about anything that happened, and apologized for Al and Heather's horrid attacks after we landed on a safe place from the finale. She wanted the details about what happened with Duncan and Mal, so I explained as much as I could, but it apparently contradicted what Duncan said. That was between them, and I was trying to get them to make up over the years, but NOTHING would materialize. It got very frustrating to deal with, but she did help plan our private wedding, and is also working on the more public wedding we're doing. There was a point in time where tensions were VERY high, because Zoey and I were on good terms with her and Sierra, with them having a HUGE conflict for YEARS after the show, and their men, both Cody and Trent who were involved with the Drama Brothers, and that breakup made things messy. We were placed in the middle for years, where Zoey and I refused to pick a side."

Josh moved onto the next person, "So we are going to move onto Heather, who no one likes. Since you and her boyfriend had SEVERE issues, I am only assuming that things were not good between you and her."

All he could do was shake his head in disapproval, as the picture was placed in front of him, "Heather is someone who... needs the producers on her side for her to do well on a "Total Drama" season, and gets mad whenever they start paying attention to others, so her envy against the second generation cast grew VERY large. She made fun of my relationship with Zoey, like hers with Al is any better. The amount of tantrums she threw against the producers was mind-numbing to watch. The evil duo got mad after the finale that we didn't save them from the sharks, and was enjoying hanging out as a foursome, so they took potshots at my illness, and blamed me for everything that happened. A bunch of insults were thrown my way from them after the months, claiming that I sent fans to send death threats at Anne Maria, claimed I made her get an abortion, how Gwen was only using us for popularity, and a bunch of other stuff that the average person does not know. For someone who claims to not talk to losers like us, but she did A BUNCH of research on us. Even outside of that, and her attacking Zoey and the other women I am close with, but she as well as Alejandro went OUT OF THEIR WAY to try to make sure I stayed in rehab for a lot longer, and has tried sabotaging my charities and events over the years. They are OBSESSED with everyone from the show, and know that they are nothing without us, so they pick fights with all of us after all these years."

"Lindsay was on the Heroic Hamsters with you, though it was only for one episode, as she is voted off immediately. She also made an appearance on your season, so what are your thoughts on her?"

Mike had a blank look on his face, "I never really interacted with her. On my season, she did make that appearance, and was EXACTLY like how she is portrayed on tv. But she wasn't allowed to speak to any of us. When we were on "All-Stars" together, Lindsay was very upset that none of her friends were on the season, and was rambling about production. Something tells me that she did not trust the producers after her last season on the show, and she was not very keen on speaking to her. I did try to engage in a few conversations with her, but it was very hard, since she is not the most intelligent, and she showed no interest in anything I had to say. I ultimately had no issue voting her off, and we never spoke after that, even at the premiere and finale parties for that season."

Josh handed him the final picture, "And now it's time to talk about the last person you competed with, and that is Sierra. Apparently you two remained on friendly terms, despite the issues she had with Cameron and Gwen. Why, and how?"

"We're not best friends or anything, and we don't hang out like that, but I didn't want to get involved in their issues. From the beginning, Sierra was one of the few who did not judge me because of my mental diagnosis, or define me by it, so I was grateful to her for that, and I didn't want to judge her either regarding her mental journey. I didn't realize that Mal was the one who broke her phone until people put the picture together for me, so I went out of my way to steal a spare phone from the production tent to give to her, and she was grateful to it."

"So what about the situation where Sierra allegedly raped Cameron, and Gwen told him this?" Josh called out bluntly, wanting to stir the pot.

All Mike could do was breathe heavily, so he could calm himself down, "I think it's all a HUGE misunderstanding. In the past, Sierra HAS went too far, and Gwen has seen that. So with their past, and from what Sierra did on her first season, I could see why Gwen thought Sierra assaulted him. Sierra in my opinion is a lot of things, but a liar is NOT one of them, especially since she isn't a good liar. Also, she always has the right intentions, and is doing the right thing, or at least trying to do the right thing. She knows raping someone is wrong, so I don't see her doing that to Cameron, especially knowing his baggage, and her trying to prove herself that she's more than what she was on her first season. Also, I could see why Cameron sided with Gwen, who always had his back, is very naive in almost everything, and can overanalyze some things, but doesn't analyze other things, because he takes the word of other people. We ended up in the same asylum shortly after the season, so we had a lot of time to bond with one another there, tell one another our life stories, and try to clear things up. It was nice to have someone support me, and I'm sure she appreciated that someone supported her. Once we left, we went on with our separate lives, but kept in touch one a year or every two years. She's been very supportive, but we aren't close friends like that."

Josh had a conflicted and stressed out face when Zoey's picture was placed on the table, "Last and most certainly not least, is your love interest in Zoey. It seemed like the both of you gravitated to one another even before you arrived on the island. After being on two seasons, I still don't really know why you two like one another, and you made it seem like your disorder was the thing that distorted your relationship form functioning. Break it all down for me."

"I saw her at casting finals, and something about her just drew me to her. I felt her good, positive energy even though we were not allowed to speak during finals, and it didn't help that she was gorgeous, and wore some of the most radiant, and extravagant outfits. We finally had the chance to speak on the yacht before filming, and she was so excited about this new journey. It was such an exciting, but scary feeling, since we had a lot in common with entertainment, novels, and all of that. Throughout my life, I have never been able to find solid connections, so to find one that is so strong, and with a girl I like so much. My psychiatrist did tell me that I shouldn't be on the show, so I was trying to keep things calm to not be triggered, and when I would make my transitions, it would be scary because I don't remember anything, and I don't know who my personalities are speaking to. Zoey told me about how she didn't have much experience in life, and how she was very sheltered, where a part of me wished I was sheltered in my life, but how her parents isolated her also had me feeling bad for her," he elaborated in detail.

Josh wanted to get to the point, "So why did you not end the love triangle drama, outright tell her about your disorder, and just end the drama? It seemed like a part of you wanted to have your cake and eat it too. Some people mentioned that you bonded with Anne Maria as well. Zoey also made it known that she liked oddballs."

All Mike could do is sigh in shame, "I was a coward, and I admit that. So many people have left my life once I either transition, or tell them that I have "D.I.D.", despite stating that they were my close friends. And another part of me was just hoping that Anne Maria would get voted out, but we did bond as well, but not in the way you think. We were the only two italian people on the season, and we had a lot of cultural similarities, as well as having foster home origins, but that was it. People outside of that triangle spread even more lies, and Scott was the biggest proponent in this. I knew that Scott and Zoey had this weird... vibe to them, and I knew Scott was attracted to her. What they didn't show was that Jo and Anne Maria separately told me that Zoey admitted to being very attracted to Scott as well, and he was #2 on her list. When Anne Maria quit, things didn't get better because Scott and Zoey were spending a lot of time together, and he was flirting with her throughout my last 2-3 weeks in the game. Zoey did not want to take in my warnings of him, and claimed that I was jealous that other people were interested in her. I was actually going to tell her in the mine challenge about my situation, but then Brick saved us, and I realized that it wasn't a good idea. I should have told her then, but of course it wasn't until I was going to be eliminated when I fessed up. Scott's move was solely personal, and I believe him forcing me to help him, and to not help Zoey was to make our relationship strained. We spent our last week in Playa together, and we were mostly isolated because Zoey and Anne Maria got into a HUGE fight a few hours after she arrived, and the cast told us that they would not speak to any of us until we cleared things up."

"So how was it like doing the long distance in between seasons? You mentioned earlier that you both lived in different provinces, and in your final season, you both mentioned how you didn't share your first kiss, though in your elimination, you both were about to kiss. Did you lie about not kissing, or being intimate, and did the novelty wear off during that time?" Josh wanted to get to the messiness.

Mike definitely was not pleased with how the question was phrased, "Excuse me? You're lucky that I take continuous meds, and have other methods to keep calm. A part of me really wanted to make out with her, and do everything I can with her, but... I still had a lot of trauma... sexually from what happened to me when I was younger, and there were several times where we would try to get intimate in that year, and it scared me off. Once I dealt with that trauma for the most part, I was ready for it. And it was difficult during that year, because her parents were not the most fond of me, and there was a bit of tension there. Also, dating while in different provinces, while still being in high school was very challenging, and I was the odd one out. We would meet up through webcams every week, and try to talk through the phone every day, but it's not the same as physically being together. That's why we were so supportive and clingy to one another in the beginning of "All-Stars", and we wanted to make the most of this experience, and to take everyone on as a couple. We started to cuddle every night during the season, and we really had to ignore everyone making fun of our lack of intimacy, or claiming that we were lying about it. Those first few weeks was the most fun I had on the show with her, but things didn't make sense, things were even more confusing, and I had a concussion from what Scott did. I didn't tell her about Mal, and I thought hat he was gone, from a past experience at the psych ward I was at. Don't remember anything else from the second half of the season, but I just kept thinking about wanting to kiss her under the rain, and it got me through."

Wanting to not drag this out any longer, Josh quipped in uninterest, "Alright, so how have things been like for the last 8 years? I heard that you two are planning to get married."

"Well, we spent our last year in high school even more apart, since I went to a mental institution to learn how to properly deal with my "D.I.D.", and all of the trauma I went through with the show. I had to unsuppressed everything that I suppressed over the years, and really had to come to terms with myself as an individual, as well as not putting my emotional baggage on Zoey. I was there for about a year, and we decided to go to post-secondary school together, since it would be the first time where we are together on a regular basis. Just being normal kids who went to school, and were a young couple together was so nice, and we were able to get to know one another in ways we couldn't while on the show, or with Cameron. We definitely had some issues, mainly with our families, as my family was starting to become more active in my life, and she felt like they left me out to dry, and I had some tension with her family because they were very judgmental of me for years. We did retread from the spotlight for a few years beforehand, and then we retreated from our families for a bit. We did get engaged, and did get married privately, but we want to have a big wedding soon."

"Now that we are finished speaking about the people you competed with, I am curious about the people from the show that you didn't compete with, and what potential relationships you built with them. So this involves people from the first cast that were not on Season 5, and the third cast overall?"

Mike had to count things down, "Wow, so I have to think it through. Trent is a very good friend of mine, who I have gotten to know shortly after my season, and I speak to him regularly. Harold is also another person that I am cool with, and he always makes me laugh. He's a nerd, but one of the most confident people you will ever meet. I met Cody a few times, but we've never had the chance to be close. Those two are the main guys from the first cast that I speak to. I've met Leshawna through various friends, and she has always had my back when people attack us. Zoey is VERY good friends with Beth, and I've gotten to know her very well, so she's also a friend of mine. I think that's it for the first cast, but I am much closer to the third cast."

Josh was shocked by this, "Really? Who?"

"Well, I did feel bad for Dave and what he went through on his season, so I reached out him, and he was SO depressed when I first met him, but we got through it together, and I speak to him the most. He was very misunderstood, and as someone who is misunderstood himself, I understood him. Sky is also someone I became good friends with over the years, mainly through Zoey as well. Shawn, Jasmine, and Samey are people we see every once in a while, so I could call them friends, but we are not close like that. And once Ella had her entanglement with Dave, and Topher with Samantha, we dealt with them, but they were both just that. No one else really stands out in my opinion."

The interviewer was glad that things were ending, "So this is going to be it. What have you been up to since the show ended, and what have you learned from being on the show?"

The young man had to sit on it for a bit, and think about it, "Well, the main thing that I had to learn was accountability, and what that truly meant. I could have handled things A LOT better on my two seasons, and while I did not intend to hurt anyone, my willful blindness to a lot of scenarios made things so much worse. The therapy I took before the show was very minimal, and I didn't take it as seriously as I needed to, and it wasn't until after the show where I took it seriously. I am on medication that helps me keep a level head, and I had to deal with the traumas that took place in my life. After the show, I went to therapy and a rehabilitation center, where I stayed there for a bit over a year, and I didn't know what I wanted to do after getting out, other than be a normal young man. Zoey and I went to the same school, and I juggled a lot of majors, since I didn't know what to do. I ended up with a psychology degree, and I think it fit, since I wanted to learn more about why the brain does what it does. I started volunteering for a lot of charities, and mental health programs, and I am currently working on being a psychologist."

"Wow, so you actually turned out pretty well," Josh was shocked with the information. He got up to shake Mike's hand, "Well thank you for coming to the interview, and take care of yourself."