Heartbreaking news😭!!! Survivor: This is what happened to Ozzy Lusth before joining season 50 cast — it will shock you!!!

While more than 750 castaways have left behind the creature comforts of home to set off on the adventure of a lifetime by playing “Survivor,” few have taken to the challenge so naturally as Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth.

First joining the hit CBS series during 2006’s “Survivor: Cook Islands,” Ozzy quickly emerged as an undisputed challenge beast, winning five of the season’s six Individual Immunity challenges – tying the record for the most Immunity Challenge wins in a single season – before securing his spot at Final Tribal Council, where he ultimately lost the “Sole Survivor” title to Yul Kwon by a single jury vote.

Lusth returned to the competition in 2008 for “Survivor: Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites,” wherein, despite his short-lived romance with co-star Amanda Kimmel, he was eventually blindsided by the infamous Black Widow Brigade alliance.

In 2011, Ozzy returned once more, this time making history on “Survivor: South Pacific” as the only castaway to ever be voted out three times in a single season after using his challenge prowess to win his way back into the competition from Redemption Island not once, but twice. In spite of the impressive feat, however, Lusth ultimately scraped up a fourth place finish after losing the make-it-or-break-it final Immunity Challenge to the season’s eventual winner Sophie Clarke.

Most recently, Lusth returned for his fourth series appearance on 2016’s “Survivor: Game Changers,” where his reputation as a challenge beast preceded him, leading to his elimination shortly after the Merge.

Now, as he prepares to return for his (potentially) record-breaking fifth season on “Survivor 50,” Ozzy is opening up about how the opportunity to play one last time has brought him back from what he calls the “rock bottom of my life.”

Ozzy Worried His Off-Air Career Would Keep Him From Ever Returning to ‘Survivor’

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In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly published in anticipation of the upcoming premiere of “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans” on February 25, Ozzy Lusth spoke candidly about how his return to the milestone season feels like an end-cap to the “emotional off-the-island evolution” he’s undergone in recent years.

When he first received the call from “Survivor” casting director Jesse Tannenbaum to join Season 50, Ozzy was hesitant, fearing that his off-air OnlyFans career would sway the show’s creators from following through with their offer to return.

“I was like, ‘Dude, are you sure?’” Lusth revealed, adding that Tannenbaum responded, “Look, they know everything. They know it all. It’s not a deal breaker. So that’s why we’re calling you now.”

Even longtime “Survivor” host Jeff Probst told the publication that “Ozzy was a fall-on-the-sword player for a few people” on the Season 50 casting team.

“A few people said, ‘You can’t really do 50 without Ozzy,’” Probst relayed. “And when you have a couple of people say, ‘I’ll fall on the sword,’ it’s done. As long as Ozzy says yes, it’s done.”

After garnering the support of both Probst and Tannenbaum, Lusth revealed that he left his former career – and his Los Angeles home – behind in the months before returning for Season 50, telling EW, “That was kind of my rock bottom of my life, I would say. I went to a dark place and realized that I had to make a huge change. So that’s one of the reasons I left Los Angeles, to go and build something that I could be proud of.”

“I think simply put, I’ve evolved and matured. I’ve been in some dark places and I’ve dug myself back out,” he added.

Ozzy Reveals His New Strategy to Finally Win the ‘Sole Survivor’ Title

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Looking forward to Season 50, however, Ozzy admitted that he’ll have to work on his social and strategic game if he wants to stand a chance of finally claiming the “Sole Survivor” title.

“With the skillset that I have, you have to be a much better strategic player to have the same target and be able to get to the end,” said the firmly established challenge beast, adding that, in the past, he’d relied too heavily upon “my challenge abilities and my abilities to be the spirit of ‘Survivor.’”

“This time around, I’m going to let the character Ozzy take the bench for a little while and I’m going to let Oscar come out and be a player,” he continued. “I don’t think I’ve ever done that. I haven’t been open with people, vulnerable with people, share stories about what makes me the person that I am. I had a bit of a wall up, a bit of an exterior, a facade. Ozzy was a character that was created when I first played, and I think I’ve learned a lot of my failures and I’m going to play a different game this time.”

Fans can catch the return of Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth on the historic three-hour premiere episode of “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans” when it hits CBS screens nationwide on Wednesday, February, 25 at 8:00pm ET.