“The Traitors”' Carolyn Wiger Slams 'Fake' Danielle Reyes After Bombshell Betrayal: 'She Sucks' (Exclusive)

"We are not playing Big Brother. I looked at this as light-hearted and fun," the 'Survivor' star tells PEOPLE of the Peacock competition series

Euan Cherry/Peacock (2) 'The Traitors' season 3 stars Carolyn Wiger (left) and Danielle Reyes

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'The Traitors' season 3 stars Carolyn Wiger (left) and Danielle Reyes
  • The Traitors host Alan Cumming picked Survivor’s Carolyn Wiger as a Traitor for season 3 along with Boston Rob Mariano, Big Brother’s Danielle Reyes and drag entertainer Bob the Drag Queen, who got banished earlier this season

  • Wiger tells PEOPLE she “wanted nothing to do with the Survivor people” on The Traitors

  • Reyes decided to go after Wiger once Mariano led the charge against Bob the Drag Queen, which Wiger calls “ridiculous”

Things got messy in the Traitors turret when the Traitors decided to turn on one another.

First, Boston Rob Mariano unexpectedly banished fellow Traitor Bob the Drag Queen and then Danielle Reyes decided to target Carolyn Wiger.

“I thought it was ridiculous,” Wiger, 38, tells PEOPLE of Reyes, 53, going after her. “I thought, we may not be getting along in the turret, but I thought we were together. I was really loyal to her. That was the person I was working with. Come on, girl!”

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In the Jan. 30 episode, Wiger cast her vote for Reyes at the roundtable, despite most of her castmates choosing between Mariano, 49, and The Challenge’s Wes Bergmann. Faithful Bergmann, 40, ultimately received the most votes and got banished, saying, “F--- all you guys” to his costars on his way out.

Wiger says she “felt close” with Reyes before the Big Brother alum decided to try to banish her.

“You made a mistake, Danielle,” Wiger says. “You knew no one's suspecting me. There's no heat on me. But there's suspicion on you. So just own it.”

Wiger blames Reyes for “thinking all Big Brother-y, 20 steps ahead” with why she pulled the move she did. “You knew my name wouldn't be out there, and so you had to throw me under,” she continues. “Don't blame my quirkiness, my weirdness or the way that I articulate myself. You are gaslighting me. I am not the most eloquent speaker. I am not always listened to. But it doesn't help when you have somebody looking down on you, side eyeing you, talking just the way she did.”

Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty Carolyn Wiger on 'The Traitors' season 3

Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty

Carolyn Wiger on 'The Traitors' season 3

The Survivor star likened Reyes’s move to when Traitor Dan Gheesling tried to go after fellow Traitor Phaedra Parks in season 2, which ultimately ended in his banishment.

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“No one wants to be the Dan of the season,” Wiger says. “But girl, you're Danning me. I don't give a s--- about looking the best. I have not played Survivor multiple times. I am a zero-vote f---ing finalist. I don't claim to be a great player. I'm good in my own freaky way. But she holds that to such a high standard of like, ‘I am the best to never win.’ Grow up!”

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Wiger actually didn’t want to play too closely with the other Survivor players — Jeremy Collins, Mariano and Tony Vlachos — on The Traitors.

“I wanted nothing to do with the Survivor people,” she says. “These are two-time winners, people who've played multiple times. I didn't expect any of them to have my back or trust me. I was not Survivor strong.”

Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty; Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty 'The Traitors' season 3 stars Danielle Reyes (left), Carolyn Wiger and Boston Rob Mariano

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'The Traitors' season 3 stars Danielle Reyes (left), Carolyn Wiger and Boston Rob Mariano

Wiger put her trust in Reyes, hence why she felt so betrayed when Reyes turned on her.  “She sucks,” Wiger says. “Like, you fake bitch! I'm over it, but I'm not.”

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The reality star didn’t plan on going for other Traitors until the end of the game. “I didn't want to get rid of her. I didn't want to get rid of Bob the Drag Queen, because that's not smart,” Wiger says. “I'm thinking I'm going to stay with these people until I have no other choice.”

Reyes has become known for her fake crying on Traitors, which Wiger says “made me uncomfortable.”

“I don't believe that we need to emotionally manipulate people on The Traitors,” Wiger says. “I don't believe we need to swear on our family or our children. I don't believe we need to cross those moral lines. I watched last season, and this is supposed to be fun. What is this bitch doing? It gave me such anxiety because I'm thinking, we are playing with Housewives and Britney Spears’ ex and all of these randoms who don't even know what's going on. We are not playing Big Brother. I looked at this as light-hearted and fun.”

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Ultimately, Wiger has found it “hard to watch” the season back.

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“It was uncomfortable,” she says. “They need to cast more clueless ass people because that's fun to watch.”

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New episodes of The Traitors stream Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock.

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