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Alyssa Humber said drama with Camille Lamb affected her “mental health,” and she felt her main boil Fraser Olender concerned about “saving face.”
Throughout the current season from Below DeckCamille has been called out by castmates about work ethics, and many fans believe that she has no interest in contributing.
The tension between Camille (deck/stew) and Alissa (second stew) started when they finally realized that their fridge was not fully stocked, which Camille was responsible for. But when Alissa confronted her, Camille let out her displeasure, much to the dismay of many fans. However, according to Alissa, Camille’s total pushback was not shown on screen.
“Nothing about Camille rubbed me the wrong way,” Alissa revealed Another Below Deck Podcast on Patreon, via the Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “When I met her, she’s really nice, she’s really beautiful. I thought, deck/boil, she’s like everything. It’s the perfect position for her, you know what I mean? But literally the first night, I realized that as a second flight attendant, I have to delegate one or two closing tasks to him. So it’s not like all day long, I’m like, ‘Do this, do this!’ A task or two, he already knew I would give him.
“Fraser has approved the assignment in advance,” the stew continued. “So after one night, he didn’t step on his feet, which I finally showed him. He was cursing me. He was holding the rail like he was angry, he was tapping his pen. You know, like, ‘Move on. You’re wasting my time.’ It was very intimidating. He intimidated me.”
“So it’s like when I start to get scared, it’s like, OK, I don’t really like you,” Alissa added. “I’m still trying to continue with him. And I told Fraser and said, you have to forgive him, move on, understand, put it to rest. And I tried, but at the end of the day, I sacrificed my mental health.
Although Alissa acknowledges Fraser as a strong and “encouraging” head of stew, she doesn’t feel like he’s involved with Camille’s situation.
“I felt a lot of pressure with Camille, and I told her, ‘Hey, I’m feeling this pressure, I’m feeling withdrawn. I’m not comfortable with this. Hey, I’m stressed. Hey, I’m going to cry myself to sleep now,'” Alissa said.
“And it’s like for nothing I feel like he has my back,” he said. “I think it’s really all about saving face. And peace with everyone, right? I definitely felt like there was a time where he had to step in and he did. But I can’t blame him. I also always try to be a good person, but it always burns I’m in the end. And I’m like working hard for Fraser. So, he’s not defending people who work hard, you know?
Alissa said she tried to avoid behavior that would cause a reaction from Camille. According to the second boil, the situation worried him.
“There is despair. There is a feeling of anxiety,” said the star. “And literally sometimes you can hear my voice when I ask him to do something right away, I really don’t like it. I don’t know how to express to you the emotional turmoil I experienced when I was there.”
Alissa continued, “When I have to say something to him, I try to write it down. Or like that song. You should say we instead of you. I try everything. And it’s like he has a vendetta against me since I met him.
“Literally the first night you fight about like, that’s incredible,” Alissa said. “And it wasn’t fun because I wasn’t a confrontational person, so he knew what he was doing. He knew I wasn’t a confrontational person at the time. I can admit that I was scared of him. I didn’t have the biggest voice at 22 [years old].”
Below Deck Season 10 airs Friday nights at 8 pm EST on Bravo.