Amaya: Love Island Tell All

0:02What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy. amaya papaya welcome to call her daddy oh my god thank you for having me the addicts cooper no i'm so excited to meet you i feel like i've been watching you for like months now and now to get to meet you in person it feels pretty surreal honestly god okay you are straight from fiji to the studio you just won love island how the fuck are you feeling man i'm getting so overwhelmed with gratitude it's nothing but positive feelings but i really do feel seen and validated truly like america fell in love with you and you became a faint fan favorite like pretty quickly early on but did you feel that way in the villa amaya girl i was so we were all so isolated yeah and it really got to the point where i was like i felt so misunderstood and i'm like wait is there something wrong with me like what am i doing wrong because in the real world when you're feeling like that you could easily just block someone but while being there you have to like be around certain situations so do you usually block people yeah i'm usually i'm the person who be like okay you know what bye peace out block you're heavy on the block i'm heavy on the block girl i like i probably have so many people blocked that i don't even remember why maybe they didn't like the way my cat look and i'm like you know what block wait you have cats yeah i didn't know if you're talking about your cat or your kitty cat wait how many cats do you have um i have two so romeo romeo and luna oh my god i'm obsessed we first of all have to talk about the sweats i love sensitive gangsta made in honor of you can you explain to me like what is the story behind you calling yourself a sensitive gangsta because that literally is like the most viral fucking thing that's crazy okay yeah so sensitive gangsta is just someone who's very in touch with their feelings and isn't afraid to emote is that the right word yeah okay um to just show it and gangster is just like okay these tears don't let them fool you baby i'll cry while still holding my own toes down like i'm still very grounded but i'll probably just be crying in the process of standing up for myself that's literally the perfect definition someone changed that in the fucking dictionary where did you grow up i grew up in brooklyn shout out to beggy how would you described yourself as a kid i would definitely say i was a kid who would literally just follow people on the park and be like hi and then the my favorite thing to do in the swings was to make the swings you know when you tie the swings up i'll just be there like yeah it's like getting so dizzy but i definitely used to always like just even if the conversations didn't include me guess what i'm inserting myself into a sandwich like hi oh my i'm obsessed with you okay who was your celebrity crush growing up um my celebrity crush growing up i would definitely say i have a few okay name them bitch i would definitely say jacob bilardi yes especially when he played nate i was like oh oh okay he was like a assistant i love how you're saying specifically when he played nate that's like a little yeah do you like a bad boy no no no we did not like nate we just like how he looked as nate we do not stand with nate okay oh my god i love the clarification okay what superlative do you think you would have gotten in high school what's that you know a superlative is like you would have been like the class clown you were made to be famous you were the most talkative you would have been known to live in your mom's basement for the rest of your life um you were going to be a professional singer like what do you think people would have labeled you as okay i would definitely say most talkative like to the point where sometimes the teachers would have to like make me sit outside the room they're like but shut the fuck up but god forbid i'm gonna yap I'm a yapper.

4:30I love that for you. Okay, what made you wanna become a nurse? So I definitely just the caring side and I'm a big empath. And I also just felt like I definitely do wanna take my education more. Like I wanna go back to school for my PhD so I could eventually become a professor for nursing students. But yeah, I was just like, when it came down to making the decision of what career path I wanted to go there was no question I was like nurse am I a cute and karen we I'm dying I would imagine I think all of us would be so happy if we got you as our nurse watching you walk in and smile like I thought about that like when do you think you're gonna go back are you gonna go back to work I definitely do see myself um but still becoming a nurse um but the thing is it's like when my patients I'm such a bit like girl if my patients are crying I'll probably like shed a tear and just be there for them because you have to keep in mind that I'm with people on their worst day.

5:32Like when you're feeling sick. So I want to be the person, the sunshine of their rainy day. I'm fucking obsessed with you. Okay. If you're going out with your girlfriends in New York, what are you doing? What's like your dream night out plans? Girl, first of all, I love a girl's night out. Okay. Dressing up in heels, going to a truffle pasta restaurant. um but yeah so definitely will be all of us dressing up in heels going to a nice restaurant and going to a lounge like i love a speakeasy i love a dynamic like this where we're able to actually hear each other compared to like girl what you said what did he do that's so real you're like i can't hear one fucking thing you're just nodding pretending you know what the fuck they're saying yeah okay what was your longest term relationship my longest term was my first boyfriend we were together for almost four to five years 16 to 21 my god why did it end affairs no under like him being unfaithful and after a while like a girl this there's a reason why my standards are the way they are now because sometimes you have to just go through some shit so like girl a laxative was taken for real i went through some shit okay so now i am the who i am now that was actually hilarious no seriously explosive diarrhea how did you find out i'm sorry i'm not laughing about you getting cute i'm laughing at you saying explosive diarrhea um how did you find out that he cheated i mean there will be girls dm and me so let me know sometimes a girl went through the phone i'm traumatized with the phone now i'm like please turn it away but yeah and how after you found like how did you have the courage to end it because i'm assuming you saw like a couple things and then how did you know you needed to put an end to it at a certain point when behavior just weren't changing yeah like and then it started to make me feel like i need to question myself and like am i pretty enough and like what is there wrong with me but babe there's never nothing wrong with you you're just with the wrong person Fox.

7:44What do you think it's like to date you? I really do think it's very entertaining to date me. I'm always saying like the most randomest things ever. But I am definitely like a very nice girl. Like I definitely want to after a long day, but tell me about your day. Like I want to listen to you and make sure that you feel seen and cared for. Do you have a type? um you know what like of course like i want to be attracted to someone but it's the personality that would make me more attracted to someone so once that personality and i start seeing certain colors i'm like where's my exit out yeah and then on to the next personality starts first if you could create a dream man what would he be like what he would he look like and what would he do for work okay so i would say he definitely has to be taller than me it was just not hard to fine your girls only like five three but definitely like i like somebody over six feet i like somebody who's tatted up that tattoo like i feel like tattoos is another way of somebody create like expressing their creative style like i so i find that beautiful um and a strong man but not too strong like you know like somebody who i don't like the whole like can you like like it looks like they're about to pop sometimes like so so fucking real but not that strong right yeah like you literally like go to the gym five times a day yeah yeah like chill like chill okay what is your biggest turnoff my biggest turnoff is men speaking badly about other women like seriously especially if they're always like talking bad about your ex babe is that really was she for you the problem or were you the problem?

9:47You need to tell me about the moment that you found out that you were going on Love Island. Who were you with? Where were you? What was your reaction? So, okay. So basically I was with my mom. I was taking her away for her birthday actually in Creweissau. So it was just like a very me, mommy and daughter moment. And then I get the phone call and they're like, yeah, so you're definitely coming. And I'm like, what? Like, this is insane. My mom didn't even know what Love Island was or is. So I was just like, listen, there's some scenes that you might have to turn your head away for. But girl, I'm excited to like do the show, do the whole experience.

10:24Did you apply or did they find you? so they did find me yeah they sent me a dm so yeah they slid in your dms they slid in the dms it go down and wait wait and amaya were you a fan of love island so i never watched a full season okay but i feel like once you watch enough tiktok clips you feel like you know everything that's going on so i was definitely the one on tiktok like oh wait he did what but i was so invested got it yeah i mean it is like a full commitment to actually watch a full season you watch like 30 something 40 hours of your life is gone but it's worth it trust me it was worth it okay most contestants I feel like have their family or their friends take over their social media while they're gone you had no one in your account why to be honest that was just the last thing I thought or cared about like I honestly really did not care like for doing that I was like you know what let me just go and just really indulge in the whole experience like you know it was just like it didn't cross my mind which makes i think a lot of people love you even more because i think they're like okay this bitch never was in it for the clout oh hell to the now hell like literally i was like once they took my phone away i'm like okay mom i'm not getting kidnapped um you're like more worried like mom so it's called love island one more time i'm gonna be over here in fiji if you need to contact me bye were your friends aware of how big the show is like were they excited for you yeah So my best friend, especially she was like, girl, oh, my God, this is amazing.

11:55But I like I also was single for the first time in a very long time, like for more than a year. And I felt like really confident in myself. So it was a good place of solitude and just me being OK by myself. So then that's when I was like, OK, I'm definitely ready to start dating. You know, it's a pretty good way to start dating again. Yeah. okay you come into the villa as a motherfucking bombshell grenades girl a good grenade wait let's clarify yes a good grenade but like amaya you have to explain to me how the fuck would you hype yourself up right before you walk out and have to like make out with all these guys and go into this challenge well first of all that is the first time i've ever done something like that my my sherry definitely was popped but like seriously i it was just self-affirmations every day like i was so nervous i don't know if you guys like could tell but i was like you got this you got this you got this so yeah i was just hyping my own stuff up and just telling myself do not fall do not like do anything too crazy but definitely just go all in are you able to like take a shot before you go out or you're dead sober girl i am sober as hell like i had to do all of that sober with no tequila no don hudio aquafudio like it was literally just me doing me raw dogging raw dogging it no condoms fuck that's why like i have so much respect for all of you women in these challenges because i'm like oh my god i would have to get into a serious fucking place in my head to go twerk on someone and make out with like five guys and be dead ass over seriously okay how much do the bombshells get to watch before you go in like were you aware of who was coupled up with who at that point so i was able to watch like a clip of of some scenes but not the full gist of it and especially since i got on like early on um in the beginning i think it was like day three for me or day four i only got to see the beginning so i didn't really see like how serious certain dynamics were at the time very clueless okay you come in who do you immediately have your eye on jeremiah with his symmetrical face he has such a symmetrical face like i never thought about it like that he really does so do you oh really yes okay i have a bad ear here that i'm hiding away stop you literally did your hair today i was like wait hold on there's a reason why this this side is always getting the side that's that's why we put her in this chair today we didn't switch because we love her left ear not the right ear wait i'm dead okay so immediately you were attracted to jeremiah because his symmetrical face yes i was like oh this man is tall like you know very symmetrical very he's handsome i'm fucking dying okay did you feel like you were able at all to like connect with him in that moment because of how kind of serious like huda and jeremiah were in the beginning yeah i mean it was a very good smooch um and i was like okay let me see what happens from here on out like i'm like really down to conversate with him but we also don't beg okay baby i'm a jogger but we don't be chasing for these men out here so once i like i just wanted to see how the conversations would go and if it was just going left i would have been like all right thank you nicks obsessed your first real then connection was with ace and bitch that did not last fucking long that was like in and out real fucking quick and then now burgers outside everybody know baby we were in and then out like dude it was so quick it was like oh my god why do you think it fell apart so quickly you know

15:53donaries donaries and babe like okay no but to be fair to be serious it's just like you know that was that's the whole point of the experience the more you conversate with somebody you see if there's a real connection there and if you and this person what is the word compliment each other yeah like compatible yeah yeah um so it was it turned out that girl like we were just not compatible in a romantic way we were just no yeah it almost felt like not even compatible it was like he in the beginning i think a lot of people on the internet were like oh my god this man is giving like he really doesn't fuck with you and it was all off of you just saying like calling him babe just just babe it really it did it did not fuck with him like why do you think that bothered him so much i mean to be honest with you like to each their own everybody has their own boundaries however it was just like that's really part of my lingual and i know he did ask uh the question of like do you usually call your partners babe or something like that and i just gradually said yes i was like yeah but like i guess he thought i was being disrespectful when it's i'm not gonna change who i am or change the way i speak so like it's really hard to not have a normal conversation with you because now i feel like i have to think about everything i say totally you want to be yourself and if it doesn't work for someone you're getting the exactly done throughout the season i feel like a huge conversation online was ace was kind of like really criticized for trying to be like the leader of the villa how did you guys feel in the villa like did he feel like this big leader or was that kind of just like portrayed online differently to be honest with you like ace just has a very like strong personality and he's the type of person that if he feels the type of way he would definitely speak up on it so i think that's what it was more about like compared to some other people they were very quiet or more of a follower or like you know um well not like a following essentially but i get it like not as outspoken and speaking up about certain things that are upsetting him do you think because i think like i even felt this way watching it like do you think there was any part of ace that voted out jeremiah because he kind of saw him as like this threat of like man to man like you're i'm kind of competing with this person yeah so i was trying to get like you know the tea during the vet off like wait what's going on like what's the beef like why is there like a back and forth between him and jeremiah but the guys just personally from what they said they felt as if jeremiah was just using it wasn't there for the right reason there was a huge rumor online that ace and shelly had secretly been dating before going on the show we know they met and they acknowledge that but people were like convinced there was something more outside of the villa what was your take on that whole thing to be honest with you i like i believed shuddy when she said that her and ace like definitely like met outside of the club once um but from what it seemed like it didn't really seem like they really knew much of each other like before that i guess it was just that once an interaction and probably slide it in the dms once again that goes down in the dms but i don't think they were like david david so it didn't feel like they were playing a game no and can you clarify like because i think maybe it was like jeremiah or ace or someone said this on in press like a bunch of you kind of low-key knew each other from social media is that fair to say so it's so funny because i knew of shadi before going into the villa we worked with the same photographer for it before so he would always post their content and i'm like oh wait like i would hype her up she's a gorgeous woman so going into the villa keep in mind me and her i have never hung out before i was like are you thin like girl i know you like we follow each other so we knew of each other and yeah it wasn't okay so she was the only person you knew of yeah okay that's good okay there was a lot of speculation can you confirm is ace actually 5 '10

20:04man i'm really bad with height how tall are you i'm five three five three so he was taller than you yes he was taller than me but shorter than huda no wait how's that how's that 5 '10 she is yeah online it says huda is five nine no she is not she is nowhere near five nine okay so maybe he's like five eight five eight yeah five eight okay okay um coming in as a bombshell obviously can put women on edge what was it like like was it hard for you to make friends immediately you know i would have to say the first couple of days were tough a little bit you know just coming And then as a bombshell, like you said, people could be uneasy with that.

20:51Or sometimes they already are in a couple. So it's kind of like you're taking away their quote unquote man or boo. So, yeah, I remembered like the first couple of nights where I was sleeping. I like cried myself to sleep. And then somebody in the bedroom was like, is someone crying? And I'm like, no, it's just my allergies, bro. God forbid a girl has allergies. i was like in the bed like like like just crying in bed and then somebody was like who is doing that and i'm like oh bro it's just allergies waking up with my face oh puppy because i'm just sensitive like honestly like and obviously like after a while it didn't feel like that like anymore but especially with the argument between ace and i and how i was probably portrayed it was just like damn man like i'll just go to my corner and be my own best friend dude that makes me so sad for you i wish i could have like hugged you while you're like sniffling that makes me so sad i think a big moment obviously i know you and hood are in a good place now but when you first came into the villa the tensions were high and were you surprised at all by her reaction with the jeremiah thing and you at all um like surprised in a way it was like damn like she really has strong feelings for him you know like and i like i would always stand up for myself so i i i don't think to be like confrontational or anything like that but i definitely will hold my own ground but just seeing how serious they were i was like damn like okay you could like that's yours that's yours yeah we saw her venting about you to the other girl saying quote that bitch is fucking messy did you know that no so after the challenge and you guys like kissing she talked to the girls and was like that bitch is fucking messy did she ever say anything to you about your situation with jeremiah or no i no not really i mean i remember one time we were getting dressed in a dressing room and this was like day two for me and and the girls were just asking me like who are you going to talk to so then i like slowly named the guys and there was like a mic drop moment where i was like and i'm gonna talk to jermiah and then i just like looked at her straight in her face because she was like getting do a sitting on the floor doing her makeup to like see like what she she'll say and she was like you can talk to him you can explore him so man i like messy baby we cleaned up that mess where's the broom the broom was in the corner that waiting for me i think a lot of people thought like especially online because we're not in the rooms with you guys thought like wow huda is intimidating like we saw there was a moment with nick where he was like i'm so intimidated by you like when you are in huda's presence like is she intimidating like what's the vibe girl she is the funniest girl i have ever met like the nicest girl very moderately you know she is a great mommy so she just has that very nurturing side to her and i know we did start it off in a rocky place but girl sometimes friendships the great friendships are are like starts from that and eventually with time it just was clear that we were really misunderstood me and her which made us bond to each other even more like we yeah you know like if we just felt like nobody really understood how steep we are with our feelings so So we just bonded off of that, like going on forward.

24:25That makes sense. Cause I feel like a lot of watching of the villa, like you can tell there's certain people that gravitate towards each other. And I agree. I felt like you and Huda weren't that close in the beginning, but towards the end, you guys, even if we see like a shot of you guys behind whoever they're like filming, you guys are together talking, eating together. Like you guys kind of really got together, but I didn't know why. And that makes a lot of sense. Cause you guys had kind of similar situations in a way. um okay we have to talk about another one of the biggest conversations online was what the fuck went down in the heart rate challenge amaya amaya amaya everyone is like did huda take it too far none of us were there we couldn't see the angle do you think she took it too far with ace i mean listen she whenever we do challenges we just really go all in like we don't have a tv we don't have our phones this is our entertainment like we're like okay we're in an amusement park let's just go for the ride so you know seriously and listen one thing about my girl is she's a great dancer she knows how to when she shakes that that booty it's an earthquake falling through so you know i believe that she really just had fun and you lost in the moment like lost in the sauce like she's just having fun yeah yeah she's twerking it's all going down I definitely don't think like she should have been like attacked or because I think a lot of it's just a challenge it's just a challenge it's just a challenge until is it not a challenge what's happening I think what happened because you guys don't get to see the edits that we watch was like she got on top of him and then basically why there was this conspiracy theory was we see her flip around her ass is in his face and then the next shot it's cut and she's like getting up So everyone is convinced that she put her ass in his face.

26:19Dude. Can you confirm or deny? I was, my mouth was to the floor watching the whole performance. I was also mesmerized by the booty. I was like, damn, there's a lot going on. I think she probably, I think it was definitely like face down, ass up, jiggly, jiggly. Like. Do you think Shelly was in the right for being upset or was it taken too far? i would have to say i kind of a little like get shuddy's point in the way you know like okay i guess you guys are having the strongest connection currently um but since you guys aren't officially closed off yet then it's like fair game facts okay i need to know back to when i asked you earlier did you guys get to take shots is there music playing in this heart rate challenge or is it dead fucking silent we listen to the same song for like no i think two to three times no yeah wait you play it for me like sing it oh girl it was nick minaj starships no let's shut this down okay at least it's nicki minaj yes i thought it was about to be fucking elevator music oh no no oh my god that would have been so that actually that would have been so funny i think i would have not been able to take it serious it's like and you're like shake that ass okay that that makes me feel better that it's nikki minaj like at least that's like kind of a fucking vibe yeah um okay after the heart rate challenge it felt like a lot of the women's relationships kind of turned in the villa because things got really contentious like yeah did you feel the change in the villa with the women after that challenge um i definitely did feel like there was tension especially after the whole hula situation like it was really it was tense for a couple days can i ask like did you feel like the villa was clicky like were there specific clicks i feel like we tried our we tried our best to interact with everybody but i definitely would have to say like there's people who gravitated to each other more just like the way i gravitated to hula like naturally you know before huda and like who else do you think you were closest with i would have to say me and alandria have a great great friendship i remember like when the whole ace babe situation happened i really did isolate myself i was spending the whole day like crying and she was really one of the main girls just consoling in me and also making sure that my feelings are valid david and i wasn't being um like too much you know so i would definitely say her yeah i feel like alandria like was so good at having really like calm thoughtful conversations with the girls and she was kind of sometimes like a grounding force where she would show up for someone even if she wasn't as close with them yes like obviously she like was ride or die for shelly and they were best friends which is beautiful but like she did put herself out there in moments when she saw a girl was kind of down bad yes aka you in that moment 100 okay you came in with hannah and the other girls ultimately sent her home during one of the voting sessions.

29:24Yeah. I know you weren't in those conversations because you were also up on the chopping block. Yeah. But why do you think, looking back, they made that decision? Man, that was a really tough night. And everybody knows, like, Hannah, my bombshell sister, we both came in together. So it was like, damn, like, it was really insane. But from their point of view, they just wanted, they said that she already formed two strong connections before um and that she will like get sometimes tunnel vision like with uh the guy that she's currently in the couple with and in regards to like not being as open so they said that they wanted to keep me so i could have the opportunity to still possibly find my connection which thank god i did um and with iris they said that they kept iris because she just started to get to know tj or something like that yep do you i guess i think oh was it tj or i think it was jeremiah it was one of the one of them at that point yeah i'm but like what do you think about that because i think this season i think was the first season that people were kind of being like penalized for having strong connections and then people were like voting people off that had strong connections which i thought was the whole point of the show but then the minute people had strong connections people were like okay well then you're done get off the island like yeah did that it kind of was confusing like did you guys have conversations more in depth that maybe we didn't see about like the way you guys were gonna approach it so when it came down to every elimination like everybody had different standpoints in regards to how they want to go about it they said that it it relays more on the people who are standing up there and what's going on with that but they did we all did discuss that if no one's officially closed off we should be open um and if like that's not a conversation that was brought up they would just we all just agreed to staying open until anyone is officially closed off okay so i see so it's like if you're not closed off but you're acting closed off then you're what's going on here yeah because it's like then close off so we're like wow you guys are in a relationship this is beautiful but if you're saying you're still open but you're not actually fucking talking to people then what's the deal yeah that's exactly the whole point okay because then it gets messy it gets weird because and then you guys are acting closed off so a girl was to approach um the guy that you're currently in a couple with it will start some whole drama for you get what i'm saying i get what you're saying yeah that makes a lot of sense um okay out of the guys in the villa who would you say was your closest friend uh you know me and nick didn't really talk to um each other at the beginning as much but towards the end nicolata really became my brother like he is such my brother like we have you seen the um rumor that he wore a wig the whole season goodbye are you kidding me oh my god yo what there is like a shot that is hilarious i need to tell him this this is hilarious there is like a shot of the girl's dressing room and in front of one of the girls you kind of see this like curly little bundle and it looks kind of like nick's head and everyone's like was that motherfucker putting a wig on this entire season i mean there's no way there's no baby i'm gonna i'm gonna double verify tonight i'm gonna put like tuck on his hair nikki but no he just has good curls okay that's so good okay let's talk about your next connection austin yes okay can you describe your time with him in three words man explosive um uh i would definitely say

33:34ecstatic and then sorry the end surprising i fucking love you okay you guys were coupled up right before casa more yeah going into casa Like how much was Austin on your mind once you started exploring things with Zach? So let's say before I left to Casa Amor, me and Austin had a slight conversation of him wanting to take things slow and in a slower pace. And baby, we were already moving slow. No, like seriously, we were already we want to kiss outside of the challenges. We weren't really cuddling with each other. every conversation we had was very just meaningful so i'm like moving slow babe we're already in turtle speed like this is gonna be really this is gonna take up like so like i was just confused so with him saying that to me going into casa more i was like yeah i'm definitely going to just be open you know you get into casa more why do you think zach ended up choosing you over alondria at the Casa recoupling.

34:42So during that time, from what he explained to me, he felt like we have more of a romantic connection. And in regards to him being with Alandria, he felt like it was more platonic. So that's what he told me. Okay. Alandria was given a chance to stay in the villa by recoupling with Nick. How did you feel about the connection? Did you feel like it was genuine? Okay. Really? Yeah, especially with how they were in the villa prior to that. I feel like they definitely already had that friendship connection to begin with. So then moving on forward, I know there's him and her had smooches. So I'm like, okay.

35:22I definitely love them together as a couple. Okay, we need to talk about the Standing on Business Challenge.

35:45okay we need to talk about the standing on business challenge girl girl girl sensitive gangsta might come out hold on she's about to start crying again i'm gonna fucking cry for you when you walked up to your mailbox what were you expecting to see on your end i mean i just really did i was hoping that people would just be honest with me prior to that because there was a lot of things i found out that night about how people felt that never once set it to my face so with me i'm i'm not like that i usually just say things to people how i feel i don't wait for a challenge to do so but i was preparing myself for the worst because of how things rolled out especially in the first days ace austin and zach all ganged up on you in this moment and as a viewer it was like amaya it was so uncomfortable and upsetting to watch especially just like as a woman like woman to woman i was like somebody fucking go save this girl how did it feel in that moment standing up there alone oh my god and plus people were already not necessarily complaining but just say i cried too much so it's like damn how can i not cry right now it was a really really tough moment for me to be honest with you like to just be on that podium and having nobody but myself at that moment i'm like you know what i just really it's on my place i'm going to eat up and digest the food and guess what thank you for spending the tea on how it really feels but it really did i was blackened out like yeah i can imagine like completely just dissociating in that moment because you're like just stand here try not to cry try not to cry okay i'm trying to hold it together try to hold together yes have you ever experienced anything like that situation in your real life ever um to be honest no because like once again like i'm able to walk away and like block someone when i feel like there's a conversation is just leading to something horrible but at that moment i really just needed to embrace it and just stand on business you know and on top of that I had no idea Zach felt that way and that was the person I was currently in the couple with so out of everybody I was like okay I need to have somebody to stand up for me but it was not him at all okay during the challenge yes the guys were basically accusing you of coming on too strong and being too much too soon to have three men all be collectively saying that to you like why do you think all of them were that triggered by you i mean i like my father loves to say that a strong confident woman especially a woman who's in touch with emotions would intimidate the cowards and people who are not vulnerable and open like that so it's just more like i don't i never understood the coming off too strong part because i never groped anybody i swear i was like i started to get so scared of how i felt like move i was walking on eggshells if i looked at somebody for too long it was just like she yeah bro she wants to get married with me the next day like we never spoke about marriage or kids talk i never groped anybody like they just really started to make me feel like i was just doing too much right so you're like i'm not even gonna make eye contact with you right can i make eye contact with anybody or like me my pinky toe touching their pinky toe is sex to them and like keep in mind guys we're on love island we're supposed to be i thought this was a kissing dating show and i can't even have my shoulder touching you now bro like seriously it's so facts i was like what is going on like i thought i was i i thought i was going crazy i'm like yeah did i not know what i signed up for like i know i'm a very open sexual girl i love her smooches but nobody wanted smooches there with anybody i will say i lost so much respect for all three of those men in that moment too because i think there's one moment yes to voice your opinion yeah but when you start to gang up on someone yeah who is just standing there and getting it from every angle like read the room guess what you're going to be on this island for a long time you can have this conversation privately but to publicly try to embarrass you it just was so inappropriate um throughout the season you stood up for other women but no one stood up for you in that moment yeah i'm like honestly i don't know if it was just more of them loving the conversation just be done and be finished um but yeah i was just it was just like me particularly especially like me like at that moment but i remember when i walked off hala and and um another islander i think it was siara yeah yeah they came and took off for me for a little bit but no it was my voice against three guys and baby this voice was loud okay what do you wish someone of the girls just would have said all right guys like take it easy like calm down just calm down it was really tough but i'm telling you like out of this whole experience my skin is so thicker now thicker than raw beef okay like or just burnt beef like this skin is tough now baby wait amaya if you actually like now thinking back like why do you think no one stood up for you maybe they felt the same way or maybe they were they just didn't want to get involved probably i think that's what it was they didn't want to probably get involved in the crossfire that was happening but though i was saying the bullet was like boom baby i was ko i had to walk away i was game i was like what the fuck what the fuck is going on had roles been reversed and you were sitting and one of your girls was up there literally like verbally getting the shit beaten out of her what would you have said oh i would have they would have heard me from across the room i would have been like uh actually no i have a question like you're not going to be speaking to anybody like that especially not one of my girls okay you mentioned and let's get to it someone did stand up for you and speak up for you in that moment mr brian how did that change the way that you saw him i mean like initially i always thought he was very cute very very handsome but just hearing his voice because i thought it was just like arguments and arguments and people just attacking me and to the point where one moment i put my head down i wasn't looking up and then i heard him say wait hold on and i looked up and i was like my eyes just glowed and i really did feel like he was my knight in armor that night like just saving me and after that i did a double take baby girl i was like what brian you know what i'm gonna talk to you come over here you're like brian i bet if i kind of grazed toes with you you would be turned on okay and you wouldn't think i'm trying to fuck you though we could have a nice conversation because you're a grown ass man.

43:11Okay, what made you realize after like initial attraction and loving that he stood up for you, what made you realize you wanted to be in a couple with Brian? So after the conversation just kept on being so flowy and I felt like I was being my complete self around him without feeling tamed and without feeling like my wings are being clipped off. Like it really just felt so natural. And I also felt like we had a lot of things in common we come from the same background so he like really do understands me in a different way you know so yeah it really started off like from that okay how did the night in the hideaway help strengthen your connection honey oh baby girl it was steamy all right we were we were sweating like it really was a great feeling to just have that private and intimate moment because like back in the villa yes you're able to have private conversations but there's still people around and like that just forced us to really be just us too like if we didn't want to conversate with each other where we have somebody else to conversate with but now it was like no we actually do want to talk to each other like we love talking to each other and being next to each other and the next morning um before like heading back i remember just sitting down by the jacuzzi with him and we were just quiet like it was beauty in a silence like it really did feel like i found my best friend where i could yap away or where we're having our quiet moments it's like one of the best quality times for him that makes me so happy for you because i relate to you and like i'm a yapper too i love talking and i could talk forever but when you find someone that you can be so comfortable with that silence isn't awkward yeah and you can just be still in yourself that's a huge sign of like progress in a relationship that you don't have to do the small talk yeah um okay I have to ask did he end up eating the kitty in the hideaway eat that kitty in the hideaway I said eat that kitty well he definitely some of us we had a great night a good time yeah did you feel like your physical chemistry was there oh 100 love that for you okay how often aside from now the hideaway like how often were people actually like hooking up and fucking in the main room dude well i don't know if it's like you guys caught on but we did have a code word journey and it kind of traumatizes me now like when somebody outside be like oh a journey i'm like how dare you touching my pearls but like if we had a code name but people were having journeys so for sure and was it at all ever like awkward while you're all trying to go to bed and you're hearing like smacking noises like dude i'm like can i sleep we already don't get enough rust around here but you know what's like as you said baby girl Do you guys have sound machines or like earplugs?

46:15The earplugs were not plugging. Like, listen, seriously, I was, those were low quality earplugs because we were so able to like hear things. And I'm like, dude, okay. Especially if there's a couple right next to you. I'm fucking dying. One of the biggest major turning points of the season that I think the internet truly felt so I want to hear your take on it was when America voted you as the most genuine and most trustworthy Islander yeah as viewers we felt like we watched everyone almost shift and kind of treat you really differently Amaya like after that moment did you feel the shift I felt the shift a little bit for sure I mean it was just like okay now you want to talk to me like period you know period we didn't have no watches over there but baby i clocked certain tea and it's like don't talk to me now i'm okay school over here like right like i feel like one of the things that was actually infuriating me personally was like seeing zach literally tell you that he was basically like disturbed that you tried to kiss him dude and then he's trying to climb up on that fucking day bed with you being like honey girl i was so confused somebody find me a map because i'm lost like what the fuck i mean like no seriously i was confused he's a grown man he couldn't tell me no he kissed me we were kissing back in casa more that's why it was like uncomfortable like what right you're a strong word you literally came at me at the fire pit during the challenge you're saying how uncomfortable you are around me you don't want to be with me you don't like me yeah and then america is like by the way motherfuckers let us remind you who the fuck is the favorite since none of you know we put you at number one and everyone literally you see ace's face and he literally is like ha ha ha and everyone is like oh my god ace and zach specifically it was like let's watch you two try to figure out how to rearrange this narrative in your head and let's see and i was praying to fucking god you saw through zach's bullshit oh i saw girl okay good i don't have 2020 vision but i have 2020 vision at that moment okay it was like dude why are you trying to talk to me now and then also i feel like when the guys were like ranking me it definitely was just projection like they didn't have no i'm like name the reason like name an example no examples were being able to made like that's so interesting yeah it was just projection you don't need to name names but like did you feel some of the women also kind of be a little bit nicer uh some yeah yeah yeah we don't need to throw shade but like i we don't even need you to name it because as viewers we clocked it and i was like amaya you better fucking stand on business now and remember who the fuck you are but i will say i think again why america fell in love with you amaya is because you can tell how genuine you are the fact that you didn't tell that fucking zach ass to be like babe we're done like i know what game you're playing you were still sweet to him yeah you still even fucking apologize to him i was gonna be like amaya girl no no no you apologized to him and ace i was like girl i i have to just give you your flowers for a second but also remind women like i think sometimes we are the first people to apologize in moments because we want to make situations just feel like let's just appease people and let's make it easy and let's not make it awkward but it's like why did you speak to both of them that way yeah because they were disrespectful and pushed you to the point that you then had to go back and defend yourself yeah and then you're being made the one that feels like you have to apologize first yeah bitch fucking no girl no no exactly no another huge moment there were so many fucking huge moments i love how people are like i don't know about this season like um how many big fucking moments we can't even get through enough and i still have so much more to talk about okay a huge moment this season was when sierra abruptly left the villa can you talk to me just from your perspective as an islander what went down dude one like literally we all started the morning together and then out of nowhere she did disappear and we all were just asking where was Ciara like like I remember asking I was like do you guys know where Ciara went and then same thing with Nick I was like Nick like where's Ciara we all generally did not know so we did not get the chance to say goodbye we weren't able to see her pack her bags it literally just happened in a flash of an eye it felt like very unreal like in a way like what is going on where were you guys when she clearly went and packed her bag we were all in the villa like we were all we literally were all just hanging down you were like outside outside and she was just she was gone like oh That's really gone.

51:27Now knowing, I have to ask, like, why she left, how do you feel about it? I definitely do think words matter and everyone should be respected, you know? So, like, I just hope that, like, she learns from her consequences, which, you know, she is a grown woman. So, like, hopefully moving on forward, it's just like, this should not be repeated, you know? Yeah. Okay, we're going to play a game. Okay. Okay. I'm going to give you a scenario and you tell me the first Islander that comes to mind. Okay. Who gave the best advice? Best advice. First Islander. I would say only Andrea. Okay. Which Islander crashed out the hardest?

52:10Besides myself, Hala. Who was the fakest? Ooh, fakest. Man, Austin Boston. Because listen, where did this information come from, Austin? Shit. which guy was the best kisser oh brian whose clothes did you steal the most uh sierra's which couple had the most sex in the group room oh my god damn okay wait how about jeremiah when they were together huh dude whose elimination made you the saddest oh my god charlie which couple has the best chance of making it in the outside world besides you and brian um i would have to say i would have to say alandria and nick really yeah yeah because iris and pepe i don't know like i like nothing against like their relationship i love them together but i alandria and nick families spoke about cookouts already and inviting each other over to their household.

53:15So I really do think that they're going to be a good couple.

53:35Okay, we're going to play a game. What is the weirdest place you've ever had sex? cvs pharmacy at the bathroom in the bathroom not in public not in public public but it was in the bathroom what was going on we made sure that we didn't touch anything like i touched the wall because i needed to stabilize myself but we made sure that it was clean okay literally we went to we went to CVS I needed to buy some candy and then we had a one smooch and then he was like do you want to go to the bathroom like okay I guess it was exciting it made it more exciting a CVS buck we love that Santa Claus please bring me Christmas presents I promised I wasn't that nolly okay what is the most unhinged thing you have ever done after a breakup um unhitch means like like you went a little crazy dude ah fuck there's a lot of um let me think brain loading oh i think i called my ex-boyfriend's mom and i'm like how dare you raise a son like this and i'm like that's so good when you call the mom i call the baby i usually always get my like boyfriends at the times like mom's phone number but yeah i'm like wait no mama sit down we have to have a talk okay what in the world how we went wrong was there any like childhood like situation that made him like this like what is it that's so real put it on the mother it's now your problem to take your fucking son your bitch ass son back I'm done with his ass.

55:24Okay, what is the craziest thing someone's ever asked you to do in bed? In bed? To suck their toes. Like, ew. Guys, sorry, but ew. I'm never sucking a man's toes. Like, what? First of all, they don't even have that much good of a self-care usually. And now you want me to suck your toes? Like, are they even washed? And like, guys, let me tell you. Let me show you this moment. I went to Miami like two years ago and I was on a jet ski with someone and I looked down and he had the longest pinky toe nail ever I swear on my baby sisters I got scared I was like I don't know if he used that like as a weapon like if somebody's coming to attack him I'll like just slice somebody with the pinky toe nail but girl it was long and strong and ever since then I kind of do have a little bit of an egg when it comes down to guys so wait were you hooking up with this man on the jet ski we were just on the jet ski right and we were supposed to hook up but when i tell you i was like i was like girl bring me back to chore right now this is not okay how the fuck you fit your feet in the sneakers seriously with that long toenail it was like this i had so much questions wait amaya when someone asked you to suck their toes what did you say to them oh hell no i'm like don't ruin the moment right now my love like everything's going smooth like butter and now you're gonna come here with the kitchen knife and just slice me up like hello calm down no calm relax my guy what is the most embarrassing thing you've ever done during a night of drinking dude oh my god guys i this was when i was like 21 too much margaritas just started drinking your girl started freestyling rapping on a date and keep in mind what i started to freestyle rap on a date on our way back home and it was a one hour car ride so it's not like i just did one thing i was just yapping talking to myself and then at first i thought he liked it but then i i go on twitter and i seen that one he blocked me on twitter from seeing a tweet and then two my friend sent it to me and they're like bro he just shitted on you he was like what would you do if a girl wraps the whole entire car ride and everybody was like jump out the window i'm like oh my god wait you have to give me from any recollection you have a little rap give me a little something okay so you're like we're driving i'm driving right oh and you're like the margarita says freedom nice so it was literally like the fat joe um fat joe lean back yeah give me it give me it was like um my name is a mic a little girl with a big dream never get down her knees if you know what i mean meanwhile this man is like i'm about to swerve up the road but looking back it was like okay i could definitely see i could see like the fake smiles like get me out of this car i also could see like it's fun for a couple minutes but an hour like i'm obsessed with you that you're like let me give you another one hold on listen to this shit this is amazing he's like can i turn on the radio you're like no i am the radio i'm obsessed with you okay fuck mary killed these sex positions okay doggy style cowgirl and missionary um okay marry missionary because eye contact hello on us um fuck doggies now you know exciting and kill cowgirl baby my knees be tired okay i don't have the best joints this is why i do yoga and i stretch it out but we're trying to improve okay what is your go-to line if you want to start sexting oh i would just be like time to get wet for both me and him i love how straightforward you are okay what has been your wildest sexual mishap mishap like what like you fell off the bed and you got a concussion like you broke an elbow like god you fell off you whatever the fuck like a disaster dude so i was having sex um with my one of my ex-boyfriends and he i guess he got too excited that he farted but like the fart was so bad that i almost drew up i try to act like it was like okay like obviously it's natural for humans to pass gas that's good that you're passing gas bro we're all for it but like we had to stop and move to a whole different room and i'm like please don't let this fart linger because how to know was so not it did he acknowledge it he was like yeah it was like like and i'm like what the fuck is i'm sure that that was not me creeping so it had to come from something now why was it one of those like it was like it was like a like that like literally short but very very impactful powerful you know what's so crazy it's like i feel like that as shitty as it is it's like if it's loud it's literally it's kind of awkward if it's loud but if it doesn't smell you're like okay that was weird pretend it was a queef keep it moving yeah if it reeks dude i don't know what he was eating that day but boy was it i i survived baby i almost suffocated okay i'm a survivor i'm a gas fart person and the in the sex survivor you're so strong amaya you're so strong the battles i face the battles i face okay um what is your weirdest turn on weirdest turn on i like okay like you know when you're cuddling with somebody and like you're my i love putting my face in your armpits a little bit obviously if it smells crazy that i'm going to like be like oh hell now But if it's a good smell, you know, like Bobby.

1:01:37You're in there. Yeah, I'm in there. Okay, have you ever had a threesome? No. Would you ever? Yes. I would, but not now. Okay. Not now. I feel like that's more for like 30s, like when like the sex is like, well, to keep things exciting, you know? 30s. We're going to save it for the 30s. 30s, yeah. Love that for you. Okay, Amaya, what is your best skill in the bedroom? Oh, man. Listen, there's a reason why my jaw snatch, okay? Your girl. Be stretching the jaw out. And I'm proud. I'm proud. Not everybody gets to see the scale. So like if you're able to see the scale, Brian. Girl, I'm proud of you.

1:02:25I am so proud of you. how do you think your life is going to be different now after love island like are you going to lean into the fame like what what are you thinking i definitely do want to engage with my supporters as much as possible like i just want to talk to them and know that like my papaya would never change you know what i'm saying and i really do want to leave a positive impact on women to know to never settle and to never change who they are so as long as i keep on sending that message out whether it's like my mini like get ready with me sort of vlogs then for sure but you know a goal of mine like i said earlier is definitely to get my phd so maybe next year your girl will be returning back to school and for anybody who would want to follow me in that journey it's more than like i'm open okay you and brian obviously we saw you guys you won love island but now what do you think this looks like in the real world guys i'm so so so excited to be in the real world with him without like mics up and i could just talk to him whenever and like i'm waiting for our truffle pasta date and i can't wait to meet his family i know i met some of his family his papa bear but i need to meet mommy officially he needs to come we're going to be cooking together there's just so much things that we have planned for us and i'm just happy to be in this moment with him you know have you guys talked about long distance like what are you guys thinking yeah so we're definitely going to be taking a turn seeing each other and boston is not far away from me i actually have cousins and friends out there so boston your girls coming i'm obsessed you and brian made history by being the first hispanic couple to win love island wow congratulations like what does that mean to you man it's really really huge because i'm the first generation um to be here in america first generational nurse like first time for like my parents literally came from dominican republic and like didn't have the best like upbringing so latino culture to me is very very huge so i mean it's really i feel blessed and i feel so i feel so much gratitude you know no i think like for the world and especially right now this was such an incredible moment in history like I think sometimes people obviously can look at Love Island and be like oh it's just a dating show but to see you and Brian up on that stage and winning in the world that we're in right now I think it just it's probably what a lot of people needed and for you to be that person to give people that hope and that strength like it's truly beautiful and incredible maya oh my gosh like hearing this from you is really huge so thank you of course so much and we feel so supported and so loved and i'm glad that i was able to well me and brian were able to be a part of this can i ask you about just quickly um i know we don't have that much time but like mental health i think sometimes people look at people on shows and we're all obsessed we're like we don't like this couple and we like this person we don't like that person but can you just kind of talk to me a little bit about what in maybe not as fun moments in the villa like what did mental health look like in the villa and like struggles and just like how did people get through when things were dark just to like understand for people watching like this isn't all just fun and games like we're real people yeah like literally we're real people we have feelings and i think sometimes like people forget how intense things could be in there like when you don't have any interaction with the outside world you're not able to call your mom and dad and talk to them like we're literally just there but when we have uh doctors like on like sad like psych like psych doctors so whenever we already are having a bad bad moment or we feel like the world is like crashing down due to the intensity of emotions we're able to take a break and talk to the doctors if needed to be and everybody has their own way with navigating how they deal with their feelings but one for me which is one loving it out and two just going on the dock and feeling that fresh air and like just embracing mother nature i'm going to do a couple rapid fire last minute questions and then we're ending okay what is your take on bdsm oh baby we love that we love that okay you do love okay how do you feel about timothy chalamet uh oh yeah was in dale right right wait i see was in dale no oh wait no he's with kylie yeah he's with kylie i'm going crazy um very cute very cute what is your most irrational fear iraq um i would have to say sharks like seriously i sometimes when i'm underwater and my eyes are closed i have like this big imagination of a shark coming to get me i don't know why so do you go in the ocean a lot well from me and beyond yeah that's it what is your weirdest reoccurring dream oh my gosh i would have to say um getting chased by naked people no seriously like that's one of my night Tara's have you ever watched the movie hereditary no so there was like a scene there where like she's just like I don't know I forgot it was a he or she but somebody just wakes up and like there's a scene of like naked people all around them and like ever since then that's like really like irrational fear of mine I just hope I don't trip and fall holy fucking no I swear watch when you start shit up you're gonna be like okay I see what she's talking about okay fair okay fair if you had a vibrator oh if you have a vibrator and you had to name her what would it be uh rosa okay what is a song that will always hype you up oh got that only what is the weirdest thing you keep in your purse um i keep damn i have a lot of weird things in my purse back up heels because I went out one day in NYC and like a purse as in like a tote bag.

1:08:54And then my heel literally broke. So then ever since then, I was like, no, we need to bring back up heels because girl, we're not ever going to be limping like that again. Do you ever wear flats? I wear flats sometimes. Okay, who is your dream threesome? Dream, let me see. Kim Kardashian. Oh, that's good. She is hot as big. What message do you hope viewers take away from your time on the show overall? You know, to just really stay true to who you are. Never change for yourself. Even when people are making you feel like, okay, what's going on with me? What's wrong? There's never nothing wrong with you, baby.

1:09:35Like, shine. And if you're bright as too light, guess what? Put some motherfucking shades on, bitch. Like, let your sun bright and illuminate. you obviously have gone viral for the songs that you love to make up when you're alone. Can you sing us a little something to close out your Call Her Daddy interview today? Give us a little like Call Her Daddy, Amaya. I'm going to close my eyes and just vibe. Okay. Call Her Daddy is on the show with Alex Cooper. We are here to glow. Call Her Daddy, you know what it is. hey let's get to the biz honey you're about to get a record deal no amaya like truly thank you so much for coming on i feel like it is such a pleasure to sit down with you you were such a bright energy in the villa but to get to know you today you're so funny you're so charismatic you're so loving and i'm so happy that america made the right person famous oh my god addicts thank you so much and like girl i love listening to all your podcasts so once i got the news i was like there's no way like the addicts so this was a huge huge moment for me thank you so much and you're beautiful inside and out i love you i love you amaya color daddy we did it yeah

1:11:05We'll be right back.