Bacteria Filled Water Almost Sends ‘Naked and Afraid’ Contestant Home

On Naked and Afraid XL the groups merged into one megagroup in the hope of finding strength and safety in numbers. But not everyone was on the same page, as we learned after the unclothed teammates collected water for drinking. Phaedra apparently missed a memo and drank from a pot of water that hadn’t been boiled. Luckily, she realized her mistake almost immediately.

The group advised Phaedra to purge the bacteria out of her system. She bravely crouched away from the team and vomited her brains out until she felt even weaker than before.

After a few hours of pain and isolation, Phaedra reported that she felt better. She confessed, “I had a pretty awful headache. Um, but, honestly, I feel like all my aches and stuff are still there, but my head is starting to feel better.” In the end, the tick-bitten, fever-stricken Phaedra didn’t let a little dirty water wipe her out of the challenge.

Naked and Afraid airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on Discovery Go.

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