Tragic Details That Have Come Out About Naked And Afraid

Publish date: 2024-05-17

"Naked and Afraid" has often been accused of faking its extreme situations over the years, like when the Daily Mail reported that unwell contestants were given an IV drip. And one contestant has since come forward to say that the show doesn't always tell the truth about how their survivalists get ill in the first place.

Phaedra Brothers appeared in the 2014 episode "Himalayan Hell." Their trip had an inauspicious start when they had to relocate last minute after the "Naked and Afraid" crew found out that a tiger had killed 13 people at their original Northern India shoot location. "None of the things I had been studying for the last two weeks even applied to the new location," Brothers later told Channel Guide magazine. "Both of us were blind going into it." The food she'd packed was also lost, so one of the crew members offered to make her a chicken curry.

"I woke up sick, sick, sick. Just vomiting and diarrhea," Brothers recalled, claiming that the meal had given her terrible food poisoning. Not only did she have to begin while dehydrated, but the show's narration later blamed it on her drinking unclean water. Although medical tests showed an intestinal parasite, the on-set medic declared that she had dysentery and "Naked and Afraid" producers threatened to delete online comments saying otherwise. "I think they thought it would be a better, more dramatic story, but it wasn't the truth," Brothers added.

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