Jackye Clayton and Lauren McKinney May not have won The incredible race But the sisters conquered some great fears.
At the premiere of season 37, fans saw Clayton, 51, excited when she and McKinney, 61, were commissioned to climb a colossal series of stairs at Tian’s Buddha so Hong Kong. Clayton told the program that he suffered a frightening fall in a series of steps that required him to make surgery and caused a phobia.
“I think about it every time I see stairs,” said Clayton exclusively Use weekly On Thursday, March, after its elimination of the competition series. “Like last week in a basketball game, I had to contain popcorn and there was no aisle. And I was like,” Oh, let me do it. “I just wanted to call my sister and say,” Lauren, I took the stairs without a handrail. “
Clayton could not help but feel “so proud” of herself to face fear and was even more grateful for the series to include it in the episode.
“I don’t know if everyone would see it would know that this was important to me. This is my plane jump or trying to make a trapeze,” he said. “How, for me it was an important agreement. So I am finally proud of myself. “
When he saw the program again, Clayton looked at the aerial shot of long stairs and was surprised that he went up and down. While fear of stairs may not be an ideal trait for a An incredible race The competitor, Clayton, explained that it was formed and practiced, as the stairs have appeared earlier.
“The first thing we had to do was run along the stairs,” he set aside. “” And I was like “, well. We got the stairs out of the way.
McKinney, meanwhile, raised her sister’s proud not to support the challenge.
“I never felt like I was disappointed. All I could think was: ‘Wow, there is someone who is there, because there is fear. There is something they do not talk to with someone because they feel that they will be ridiculed or tried or anything because it is so less,’ ‘said McKinney Us. “Maybe it will help us all stop us. Everyone goes through something on their own, sometimes their own journey in silence. And you can extend a hand and be a help for someone and leave them actually the opposite. “”
In addition to Clayton, taking the stairs, McKinney had a moment when the first blockade of the season increased. McKinney was commissioned to climb a Bamboo tower by Cheung Chau Bun Festival, which he did without any problems. However, facing the thematic challenges of the heights was not on the McKinney radar.
“We saw every season of The incredible race. Addressing to this, we decided in advance who will do this, who will eat this if he comes out, who will, and she would do all the things high, “he said. “Put me in the mud. I will go up the mud, I will pressure bull, I do not care, to swim, anything that did the whole height that things jump from a group of plane, anything. So I wasn’t going to do this. “
After Clayton’s emotional moment with the stairs, McKinney knew that the couple had a significant delay and was already in the last place. So he decided to give his sister a break and dominate the tower itself.
“I had just conquered these stairs. I had to conquer this tower,” said McKinney Us. “So I only knew something inside me that I don’t like, I didn’t even scare me. I just went. I just got in directly:” I have to do this. “
Once McKinney got the feat, he felt “joy” and “pride”.
“There was a feeling of when you overcome something you didn’t think you could. I knew my sister was waiting for me at the bottom,” she reflected. So it was absolutely surprising and a moment. “”
The incredible race The air in CBS on Wednesdays at 21.30 pm and are available to transmit to Paramount+ the next day.