I felt like I’m the odd one out: Erika Packard on getting eliminated from ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 12’

Colors’ show ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 12’ has begun with a bang. The show telecast its first two episodes and the Erika Packard became the first contestant to get eliminated from the show. Erika performed the elimination stunt along with Jannat Zubair and Aneri Vajani. Erika couldn’t complete the task and was eliminated.

Later, Erika confessed on being under pressure. India Forums got in touch with Packard and asked her about the pressure that faced during the first few stunts. She said, “Well, I thought I was prepared for the show, however, I realized that it is quite different from what you think in your head. It was for the first time that I was surrounded by so many cameras and such a magnum crew. I was competing with few of most popular faces from the entertainment industry and the entire ambience on the set left me overwhelmed. I was surrounded with so many accomplished and experienced people while I was the one with the least experience. I started feeling like the odd one out. To top it all, I injured my nose and I became conscious of my face. I also got conscious about my expressions that the camera would catch. In the second stunt, where I had to jump, I couldn’t do the same because I was scared of the first stunt and thought that the jump might leave another injury on my body and hence I couldn’t just jump”.

She added, “While performing a stunt, the co-contestants cheer and motivate you and I started thinking that I have to perform for them and lost my focus”. We asked her if she regrets doing the show this year while she could have planned doing it a few years later, after gaining experience, she replied, “I do not regret it. I belive, I needed this experience. Now, I’m aware of how a TV show or a reality show functions and after this experience, I can decide on doing other shows. However, I have to be very careful of what I want to do as I prefer to show the audience the real Erika Packard”.

We asked Packard about the probable winner for her, she said, “I really like how head-strong and focused Jannat Zubair is. She is lovely and performs her tasks brilliantly. She streamelines the stunt and focus on everything precisely which makes her a winner material, for sure”.

Here’s wishing Erika Packard a very best of luck for her future endeavors.