Amy on Reilly’s betrayal: ‘I Knew She’d Hurt My Game’
Amy on Reilly’s betrayal: ‘I Knew She’d Hurt My Game’

Amy Bingham. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS.
She was guilty by association and that association was with one of the most bombastic houseguests and Big Brother winners of all time: Rachel Reilly. Amy Bingham left the house under the cloud of a unanimous vote. Even her closest ally voted against her. That doesn’t sit well her.
John Powell: Amy, it’s great to be talking to you this morning. I know it’s been a roller coaster ride for the last 24 hours. How you feeling this morning?
Amy Binham: I’m so fine. Thank you, John! I appreciate that. I’m doing okay. I’m a little sad. I’m sad to be out. Yeah, I didn’t want to go home. Yeah, it was too early. I didn’t get to play my game but I’m grateful to experience it. I’m so grateful for this. It was fun!
John Powell: You were voted out unanimously and even Rachel voted you out. Were you expecting that? Were you shocked by that?

Amy Bingham and Julie Chen Moonves. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS.
Amy Binham: I was shocked by that! She didn’t tell me she wasn’t going to vote for me! Honestly though, what the heck is one or two votes? I don’t care. Save your game. It doesn’t matter to me. I don’t need a vote. It really does not matter to me at all. Maybe I’m the worst game player in history. I don’t care. I don’t need a vote to save myself if I’m not going to save myself anyway.
John Powell: Did you have a feeling that the votes weren’t going to go your way if you did lose the Block Buster?
Amy Binham: I knew it against Will. I knew I was going home. Against Adrian? It probably would have been 50/50. I would have had more of a chance to stay but I didn’t beat him in that puzzle. I needed to do it and I didn’t do it.
John Powell: Rachel was a benefit to your game but she was also a detriment to your game. Was there any wiggle room to kind of pivot your game at all?

Amy Bingham. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS.
Amy Binham: No, because I wouldn’t have been able to. I’m a loyal friend in real life. I’m a loyal friend in the game. What do I do with that? I can’t. I couldn’t separate from it either. I wanted to play with her. We’re in the game together. I knew I was screwing myself by being friends with her from day one, I knew it.
John Powell: Are you surprised that Rachel isn’t an even bigger target than she is now?
Amy Binham: She’s been playing a really good social game. She’s really stepped it up with the right people so that she hasn’t been targeted yet. I think it’s just a matter of time but they had to cut me out first because I was a pawn so getting me out so it weakens her then they can go after her later. There’s bigger fish to fry at the moment, right? Keanu. Jimmy. There’s other other people to get out right now.
John Powell: On the live feeds you mentioned quite a bit that the Big Brother game and the experience wasn’t what you expected. What threw you?
Amy Binham: That everyone played so hard immediately! They were going hard from day one and it’s game talk until three, four in the morning, every night, all night and I wanted to get some sleep. Can I go to bed? I’m old. (laughs)
I’m 43. The average age is 27. My son’s 21. Some of them could have been my kids. This is crazy! Everyone was playing so hard! Rachel did say that wasn’t how they played previous seasons, right? I was shocked by that.

Rachel Reilly. Photo: CBS.
Also, I missed my babies. I knew I would miss my babies like crazy but I think the first week I probably got like 15 hours of sleep. I was so sleep deprived, missing my babies and crying. You can’t cry either. That’s the thing too. You cannot cry about your kids. You can’t miss anyone. You can’t cry ever about anything. No feelings, no emotions, no nothing, because you are a target. You can’t take a shower. (laughs) Don’t take a shower! Stay away from the shower! It’s crazy! It’s ridiculous! You can’t have a friend! Don’t be friends with anybody! Don’t ever align with anybody! No one can know you’re a duo, especially with Rachel.
John Powell: What was it like not having your daily support system?
Amy Binham: You know, I’m glad I had Rachel and Ashley. At least they were some support, for sure…I have like three besties at home that I can call any time. Bestie Beck is the best! I talk to her every day about all the things, all the time. I couldn’t just call Bestie Beck and that was difficult. I couldn’t get the love and support. My kids and just the comfort of being around them. It was very difficult.
I feel like it’s a very different game for a parent to play especially with younger kids that are still in the household then kids who are 25-years-old. They’re free birds. It’s very different. I wasn’t mentally prepared for that and I probably should have been, but I wasn’t.
John Powell: Can let us in on how did you become The Accomplice and what was your reaction when you found out?
Amy Binham: They told me two days before I got in the house! You can get in the house if you’re The Accomplice and no one finds out it is you. I was like: I’ll be an Accomplice! I’ll do anything you want! I’m getting in the house! Get me in the house! I don’t care what I need to do and I did it! That was easy. That was the easy part. Being friends with Rachel was the harder part. I was her accomplice but that was the problem? That was the hard part.
John Powell: Was there at any time that you thought you were going to be found out?
Amy Binham: I did not think I would be. No one was even on to me…People thought I was a ding-dong. So I was like: I’m just going to play this up any way. Let me just be myself. No one’s going to out me and they didn’t. But then, certain comments people made later, I was like: Oh, my gosh! A little paranoia would get kick in every now and then.
John Powell: That’s always the best strategy. Deny. Deny. Deny. You went into the house with a strategy already in place. You were going to form a Women’s Alliance and bring the women together. Why didn’t it work out? What happened?
Amy Binham: It didn’t work out. You know what? Women, I don’t know why it’s hard for us to work together. Why is that? I will never know. I just don’t know. I wish that we could. I would have loved to have the first women’s alliance but you got to stay in the house for that. When comes to staying in the house I couldn’t do that either, right?
John Powell: What did you think about Katherine’s remarks because she did say she did bring that up during her goodbye to you?
Amy Binham: I was little shocked at her message because I didn’t think that at all. It’s interesting how perception is because I wasn’t thinking she was at the bottom at all of anything. If we were able to all stick together she wasn’t at the bottom in the circle at all with me. I don’t know if someone told her that or fed her that or what it was but it was definitely not how I was feeling. I was shocked by her message.
John Powell: Well, what could have shocked some of the houseguests is your exit from the house where you called Jimmy out for being a snake. What impact did you want those statements to have?
Amy Binham: Get him out! He’s a liar! He’s lying through his teeth! He’s such a liar! He lies all the time! I wanted to call him out so bad in the house so many times but I didn’t. So I was like: Well, I’m going to. I’m going to just say it and let them know.
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