Kayla Nicole needed to take a minute to actually course of that she handed choice on Special Forces.
“From interrogation, they shoot closing scenes after which they take you again to your resort. I referred to as my household and everybody’s all excited [that] I made it to the top. However I discovered myself — I’m not even kidding — rocking on my mattress and I didn’t understand how lengthy I used to be doing. I do know it’s just a little creepy, [but I was] rocking on my mattress, self-soothing for in all probability quarter-hour,” Nicole, 33, solely instructed Us Weekly. “I checked out my name log and I had talked to my household quarter-hour in the past. I used to be simply sitting there rocking whereas the bathe was working. I type of snapped out of it and was like, ‘Oh, my God, I may be just a little traumatized by what simply occurred to me.’ However as soon as I snapped out of that, I took the longest bathe I’ve ever taken in my life. I ordered a burger from room service and a beer.”
The health influencer and Brody Jenner have been the one two out of 16 recruits to move the navy exams on season 3 of the Fox collection.
“I instructed myself that if I made it to the final day, that there was simply no choice of going dwelling,” Nicole defined of the 10-day problem. “There was no idea of time and I simply saved telling myself, ‘I’ve made it this far.’”
She then quoted Kim Kardashian to Us: “What’d Kim say? ‘I didn’t come this far to return this far.’ You guys are going to have to actually kill me to ship me dwelling. I wasn’t going to stop at that time. I’d been by means of an excessive amount of.”
As a part of the ultimate stage of the present, the recruits are actually made to really feel like they could die. For Nicole, that meant having a brick tied to her ankle — after greater than 10 hours of being interrogated — with the specter of being pushed right into a physique of water if she didn’t break her cowl story and come clean with being a part of the Particular Forces.
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Kayla Nicole. PETE DADDS / FOX
“They prep you [like if you were] a Navy Seal. They are saying while you undergo interrogation, you wish to just be sure you’re respectful. You wish to befriend the folks which can be interrogating you. You wish to make them such as you, so that you gotta drop the ego. You possibly can’t be sarcastic, however in addition they let you know that part of the duty is to know when it’s time to surrender your id,” Nicole defined. “If it’s a life and loss of life scenario, that’s while you’re supposed to provide it up — something earlier than then you definitely gained’t be capable to move and something after. Then if ‘loss of life’ have been to supposedly occur to you, then you definitely would fail as nicely, so that they do let you know that. You must differentiate when it’s the appropriate time to surrender your id.”
Nicole famous that the toughest a part of the interrogation on the ultimate day was “not understanding when it was going to finish.”
“I believe that that type of journeys you out. You’re sitting in darkness for thus lengthy. I bear in mind at one level, they introduced me exterior — I believe dropped me within the trough — and I noticed daylight and I used to be like, ‘Oh, we would nearly be finished with this. It’d nearly be over.’ That was the toughest half for me,” Nicole defined. “After which two, probably not understanding who was nonetheless left with you. Brody was telling me the opposite day he discovered consolation in listening to me cough within the room when he had his headphones off and he was coming again in as a result of he was like, ‘Oh, Kayla’s nonetheless right here.’ You had no thought who was left. You had no thought what time of day it was. It was simply an ongoing, by no means ending torture course of. It was insane.”
Whereas Nicole and Jenner handed, the remaining finalists Alana Blanchard, Cam Newton and Golden Tate failed interrogation.
![Kayla Nicole Special Forces](https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kayla-Nicole-Special-Forces-2.jpg?w=1000&quality=70&strip=all)
“Folks actually begin to grow to be your safety blanket. You look to these folks that can assist you get by means of. You grow to be a household,” Nicole instructed Us. “You’re sleeping on cots subsequent to one another, utilizing the lavatory, showering subsequent to one another. So you actually grow to be a extremely shut knit group in a extremely brief period of time.”
Nicole mentioned a number of solid members also have a group chat. “We’ve saved shut. … We watch the exhibits collectively just about, so it’s been nice,” she mentioned, including that Christy Carlson Romano is probably the most lively within the chat. “She’s actually good in any respect the social media issues and he or she’s sending us TikToks that she’s product of us. She’s nice.”
Going into the present, Nicole — who dated Travis Kelce from 2017 to 2022 — had a little bit of historical past with Newton. On the present, followers noticed her inform Jenner that she as soon as tweeted about feedback the NFL participant made about ladies on a podcast. She instructed Us that the twosome laughed about it whereas filming.
“Me and Cam talked about it within the washroom sooner or later. Loads of our conversations occurred in that room the place we dry our garments as a result of it was heat [and] it was freezing [in Wales], in order that was type of like our little hub to hang around,” she mentioned. “We talked about it, laughed about it and I believe he agreed that what he tweeted was ridiculous. Cam, ladies don’t belong within the kitchen. …. He will get numerous slack, however he’s such a fantastic man.”
Kayla Nicole needed to take a minute to actually course of that she handed choice on Special Forces.
“From interrogation, they shoot closing scenes after which they take you again to your resort. I referred to as my household and everybody’s all excited [that] I made it to the top. However I discovered myself — I’m not even kidding — rocking on my mattress and I didn’t understand how lengthy I used to be doing. I do know it’s just a little creepy, [but I was] rocking on my mattress, self-soothing for in all probability quarter-hour,” Nicole, 33, solely instructed Us Weekly. “I checked out my name log and I had talked to my household quarter-hour in the past. I used to be simply sitting there rocking whereas the bathe was working. I type of snapped out of it and was like, ‘Oh, my God, I may be just a little traumatized by what simply occurred to me.’ However as soon as I snapped out of that, I took the longest bathe I’ve ever taken in my life. I ordered a burger from room service and a beer.”
The health influencer and Brody Jenner have been the one two out of 16 recruits to move the navy exams on season 3 of the Fox collection.
“I instructed myself that if I made it to the final day, that there was simply no choice of going dwelling,” Nicole defined of the 10-day problem. “There was no idea of time and I simply saved telling myself, ‘I’ve made it this far.’”
She then quoted Kim Kardashian to Us: “What’d Kim say? ‘I didn’t come this far to return this far.’ You guys are going to have to actually kill me to ship me dwelling. I wasn’t going to stop at that time. I’d been by means of an excessive amount of.”
As a part of the ultimate stage of the present, the recruits are actually made to really feel like they could die. For Nicole, that meant having a brick tied to her ankle — after greater than 10 hours of being interrogated — with the specter of being pushed right into a physique of water if she didn’t break her cowl story and come clean with being a part of the Particular Forces.
![Kayla Nicole Special Forces](https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kayla-Nicole-Special-Forces-1.jpg?w=1000&quality=40&strip=all)
Kayla Nicole. PETE DADDS / FOX
“They prep you [like if you were] a Navy Seal. They are saying while you undergo interrogation, you wish to just be sure you’re respectful. You wish to befriend the folks which can be interrogating you. You wish to make them such as you, so that you gotta drop the ego. You possibly can’t be sarcastic, however in addition they let you know that part of the duty is to know when it’s time to surrender your id,” Nicole defined. “If it’s a life and loss of life scenario, that’s while you’re supposed to provide it up — something earlier than then you definitely gained’t be capable to move and something after. Then if ‘loss of life’ have been to supposedly occur to you, then you definitely would fail as nicely, so that they do let you know that. You must differentiate when it’s the appropriate time to surrender your id.”
Nicole famous that the toughest a part of the interrogation on the ultimate day was “not understanding when it was going to finish.”
“I believe that that type of journeys you out. You’re sitting in darkness for thus lengthy. I bear in mind at one level, they introduced me exterior — I believe dropped me within the trough — and I noticed daylight and I used to be like, ‘Oh, we would nearly be finished with this. It’d nearly be over.’ That was the toughest half for me,” Nicole defined. “After which two, probably not understanding who was nonetheless left with you. Brody was telling me the opposite day he discovered consolation in listening to me cough within the room when he had his headphones off and he was coming again in as a result of he was like, ‘Oh, Kayla’s nonetheless right here.’ You had no thought who was left. You had no thought what time of day it was. It was simply an ongoing, by no means ending torture course of. It was insane.”
Whereas Nicole and Jenner handed, the remaining finalists Alana Blanchard, Cam Newton and Golden Tate failed interrogation.
![Kayla Nicole Special Forces](https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kayla-Nicole-Special-Forces-2.jpg?w=1000&quality=70&strip=all)
“Folks actually begin to grow to be your safety blanket. You look to these folks that can assist you get by means of. You grow to be a household,” Nicole instructed Us. “You’re sleeping on cots subsequent to one another, utilizing the lavatory, showering subsequent to one another. So you actually grow to be a extremely shut knit group in a extremely brief period of time.”
Nicole mentioned a number of solid members also have a group chat. “We’ve saved shut. … We watch the exhibits collectively just about, so it’s been nice,” she mentioned, including that Christy Carlson Romano is probably the most lively within the chat. “She’s actually good in any respect the social media issues and he or she’s sending us TikToks that she’s product of us. She’s nice.”
Going into the present, Nicole — who dated Travis Kelce from 2017 to 2022 — had a little bit of historical past with Newton. On the present, followers noticed her inform Jenner that she as soon as tweeted about feedback the NFL participant made about ladies on a podcast. She instructed Us that the twosome laughed about it whereas filming.
“Me and Cam talked about it within the washroom sooner or later. Loads of our conversations occurred in that room the place we dry our garments as a result of it was heat [and] it was freezing [in Wales], in order that was type of like our little hub to hang around,” she mentioned. “We talked about it, laughed about it and I believe he agreed that what he tweeted was ridiculous. Cam, ladies don’t belong within the kitchen. …. He will get numerous slack, however he’s such a fantastic man.”