Big Brother 27’s Mickey Lee may have had a difficult time during her final weeks in the game, but revealed she has a major regret about the weeks she was in power. Big Brother 27 has taken many twists and turns surrounding who’s been in power, who’s been in danger, and what’s coming next in the game as it progresses forward.
Throughout the game, Mickey went from someone who had allies on her side to someone whose allies were working against her. After stealing Rylie Jeffries’ HOH title, Mickey chose to target one of her closest allies in the game, Jimmy Heagerty. While she and Morgan Pope had a final three with Jimmy, Mickey was insistent that he was detrimental to her game.
After taking Jimmy out, Mickey’s case of HOH-itis seemed to worsen with time. Even though she wasn’t in power, Mickey had a tough time moving through the game with trust from her allies, and found herself on the block several times as the weeks progressed. Though Mickey evaded eviction at first, her luck recently ran out, and she spoke to Screen Rant about her BB experience.
Mickey’s Mature Approach To Her Eviction Leaves Her With The Blame
Screen Rant: Mickey, you’ve seen a little bit more post-game, post-eviction. Who would you blame at this point for your eviction? If you had to bring it down to somebody?
Mickey: You know what? I can’t say I blame anyone. I have not seen everything yet. I have not even watched back anything. All I know is what people are saying. So a lot of people are saying Ashley [Hollis] and or Morgan. That’s what I’m hearing. I can’t say that for sure until I see it with my own eyes, but that is the consensus that I’m learning.
Screen Rant: Obviously Keanu is the person who put you up. Would you put any of the blame on him if you had to?
Mickey: I think I had to. Honestly, I can’t blame anybody for my eviction. I think I am to blame for my eviction more than anything. However I played, how I was perceived, that obviously plays into why I left that house. So one, wrist tap for me, of course. And then two, obviously Keanu put me up.
I don’t think he put me up with the intent for me to go home because I wasn’t his target. But I do think it was a good HOH for Keanu to get me out just because I was such a huge target for the house and a competitor in the game. So if anything, I think it made his resume look pretty, pretty decent. And I mean, I’m happy for him with that.
Screen Rant: He took out a big threat as unfortunate as it was. So I’m curious, you came into the game, you earned yourself a power and you were able to steal Rylie HOH. You chose to align with him after that happened. What was the thinking in that, especially knowing that he was somebody that you had taken power from?
Mickey: Right. So honestly, my thought process with that was to, you know, you keep your enemies as close as possible. So I knew Rylie obviously potentially could have put me back on that block, but it was easier for me to keep him close, to talk game with him and make him think that I trusted him as well as he trusted me.
I don’t think that he thought he was going to go home on the night he sat on the block just because of our interactions and the things that we communicated with each other. So until I could get a strategic way to, you know, get him out of that house or make sure that he is unarmed in order to be able to get me out, I kind of just kept him close just because it was just easier. And with him being a house favorite, you never want to be on the house favorite’s bad side.
Screen Rant: Absolutely, It’s a good play. Out of all of your allies, we kind of saw you shift loyalties here and there. Who were you most loyal to in the house?
Mickey: Honestly, I think, honestly, I was most loyal to Morgan, even though I think I saw things differently pretty early on. I told myself that when I went into the house, I wasn’t going to stick to who stuck to me. And at the time I did think, I’m sorry, I thought Morgan was sticking with me.
And that’s kind of why I made sure I was loyal to her, even considering her game, obviously when it went, sending Jimmy home, not putting baby up, et cetera, et cetera. So I think Morgan was who I was most loyal to, even though I did have a lot of discernment saying that she was someone that I probably shouldn’t be connecting with. But after a while, when you only have a few people who you think really are going to ride for you, you kind of just stick with who you have.
Mickey Regrets Taking A Shot At Her Ally, Jimmy
Screen Rant: Definitely. You did mention Jimmy. So I do want to ask – despite those beliefs in the house that Jimmy’s game was messy, he really would have protected you at all costs. You got some info from Keanu and Morgan about his game – why didn’t you question that before choosing to put him up?
Mickey: So to be honest, I love Jimmy and I love him as a person personally. I think what bothered me the most, I did try to have conversations with Jimmy several times prior to even being HOH, trying to get to the bottom of where certain things were coming from. He would bring me information like, oh, Keanu says you’re cooking your way to the top, or Keanu’s going to put you up, or Catherine’s going to put you up if she wants HOH, all these things, but never giving me any context to how he knew or why he knew, or never even coming to me and saying, hey, I tried to dispute what was being said about you in regards to this or that.
It was always mainly kind of either he listened to it and was okay with it, so as long as it wasn’t him, or even steering things my direction so that they can kind of go away from him in the moment. And I think that’s what hurt me the most. Now, ultimately, when I put Jimmy up, did I really, really want him to go home?
To be honest, I didn’t, but once the move was made and the house kind of all banded and agreed that they wanted him out, it was kind of out of my hands at that point, but I do regret putting Jimmy up. I can say that for sure. I regret sending him home just because I do think I should have talked to him more about it, and then if it was something that we couldn’t have resolved, put him up later, but in the moment it made the best for my game just because my game had a lot of drama attached to it, mainly because of what Jimmy was kind of doing with others behind my back, even connecting with other alliances to potentially put me and Morgan up. It just didn’t sit really well with me.
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