By John Powell – GlobalTV.com

Kamu has one major Big Brother 28 regret. He wishes things had ended on a better note with fellow player RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Jason.

In the house, Kamu and Jason got along well until their games started to go their separate ways. Kamu politely refusing to participate in a dress-up segment, stating he was uncomfortable but cheered on others who wanted to, was also not taken well.

At one point, Kamu did say: “Miss me with the drag stuff. I’m still an MMA guy and I have an image to uphold.”

Kamu targeted Jason during his HoH and the now infamous Tea Party didn’t do anything to repair their relationship. Jason responded with his version of Evel Dick’s pots and pans treatment the very next day. Now that they are both out of the house, Jason has been outspoken about Kamu’s comments.

He told Global TV: “Yeah, dude. The first week we were actually really cool and we were actually building a friendship. He wanted to do this alliance with me, Drew and Melody because we were the ones who were always up late and we’d had so much fun together. So, I even used that to my advantage at one point when I felt like they were targeting me to try to make Kamu seem like he’s not with them which it felt like maybe he was down to not be.”

“In a way, me and Kamu were kind of on the same page. When that started to shift, I could tell there was something going on. I was like: “Why does he not like me? What is this about?” I was already on the bottom. My game was already been aired out. Why is he doubling down on me? Why am I his target? I thought we were cool. I thought the Rome thing was what that was. What’s going on, dude? It was interesting to come out the house and to learn who he is as a person was exactly who I expected he was in the house. I was not surprised but looking back now it makes sense.”

These and other comments haven’t stopped Kamu from reaching out to Jason. Kamu hopes they can talk things out eventually.

John Powell: Kamu, it’s great to be talking to you today. You’ve had some time to relax, to reflect on things. How are you feeling?

Kamu Kirk: Good! I don’t know if I’d really say I’ve had much time to relax, but, yeah, I have had some time outside of the house. I’ve just been catching up with family and catching up with friends and it’s been great.

I really wish that I was still in the house playing. I’m a competitor. I really wanted to be in there. I wish I was still there with my people, you know, Yash, Taylor, LaLa, Haley. I wish I was in there to still fight with them, to flip the house upside down. That was really what I wanted to do before being evicted.

But it’s also been nice to be in my own bed. I do wish I was still in the house, rocking with my people and playing the game.

John Powell: One thing we have to touch on, which is the elephant in the room and you’ve explained this a number of times. I think I know what you’re saying. I think I know what you’re getting at but we’ll go back to Big Brother 2 where we had Kent and we had Bunky in the house. I don’t know if you saw that season, but Kent was very conservative. He was a very conservative older guy and Bunky was a gay man.

At the beginning, Kent was like, “I don’t want to be in the house with this freak,” and this, that and the other thing. Then, he began to learn about Bunky and they actually developed an amazing friendship that lasted beyond the house because they began to understand each other, Kent began to understand Bunky. Out of it all, at first they were wary of each other, then they became really close friends.

What are your definitive feelings about Jason and the fact that he is also gay?

Kamu Kirk: On a human level, I really like Jason. I’ve actually reached out to him since getting out of the house and I hope that I hear back from him but everything between Jason and myself was strictly a game. I have nothing but love for the dude. It was never anything personal. It never had anything to do with his sexual orientation.

Jason and I were actually good friends for, like, the first two weeks before our games started to clash. Jason and I were good friends, and I even thought about forming an alliance with him at one point in time.

So it was strictly game, and that was it but outside of the house, I love Jason. I wish him nothing but the best and it’s all the respect in the world for Jay. I messaged him and I said, “Hey, man, I saw Queen Kamu, and I’m honoured.” I said, “Dude, I wish you all the best.”

So, I hope that I hear back from him at some point. If I don’t, I understand, but I’m hoping that he and I can have a conversation and shake hands but, dude, it’s nothing but love from me.

John Powell: What do you say to those people who are still critical of your comments?

Kamu Kirk: A lot of those people in the comment sections that I’ve seen have said, “Man, I don’t know what Kamu was talking about. He was never asked to participate in drag.” That’s simply not true. There were several times in the house when people asked me if I was going to participate in a drag show that Jason was going to host and I respectfully would say, “Oh, you know, I’ll be an audience member.”

Even the day of the tea party, when Drew and Barrett put their dresses on, I was also asked if I was going to put a dress on. So, after being asked several times, I was like, “Man, like, miss me with the drag.” And it was never an attack on the community. It was like, I just personally don’t want to do it and I wish that people would respect my decision to want to wear what I want to wear.

But, of course, people don’t see that, and sometimes things are taken a bit out of context and then people form their opinions. So it’s one of those things where I think a lot of people’s minds are kind of made up about me and how they feel about me and that’s fine. Everybody’s entitled to their opinion, of course.

Jason is the only one that I really care about here in this situation. I want to make sure that he and I are still cool and he knows that nothing was ever personal. I hope that he and I can have a friendship.

John Powell: You had the tea party and a lot of people said, basically, “You know, Jason’s pretty buried here,” and, you know, just looking at the tea party, it may have been one step too far. Looking back, I kind of saw it as like you just wanted to put the nails in the coffin to make sure. How do you feel looking back? Is it something that you regret, or do you think it’s something that you needed to do to make sure he was evicted?

Kamu Kirk: It was something that I felt like I needed to do and, again, I can’t reiterate this enough, but it was strictly game. Like you said, it was to kind of put the nail in the coffin. One of the things that I learned in the Big Brother house is that things change so quickly.

When I heard that Jason was spreading lies about me…all it takes is for one seed to be planted in somebody’s head for them to completely flip on me if they take something that Jason is saying about me seriously.

So what I wanted to do was get everything out in the open, where the houseguests could ask me anything based on what they were hearing from Jason or they could ask Jason anything based on what they were hearing going around the house. So it was a purely game move. And, like I said, it was never to try to isolate Jason or anything like that on a personal level.

I just wanted people to know, like, “Hey, some of the things that you may be hearing about me from Jason are just not true, and we could all talk about it here together as a house.” It was never anything more than that.

Big Brother airs Wednesdays (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT), Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) live eviction show hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, and Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). Big Brother: Unlocked airs Fridays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on July 24, Aug. 7, Sept. 4, Sept. 18 and Sept. 25 on Global TV.