Kishori Turner and Karishma Cordero.
Yuri Hasegawa/CBSThe Amazing Race Participants of the 36th season Kishori Turner And Karishma Cordero struggled with their last hurdle.
Karishma, 22, volunteered to take part in the challenge because of her skateboarding experience. But when the hurdle turned out to be building a skateboard instead of riding one, she knew she was in trouble.
“It took her over four hours to complete the challenge, but [the episode edit] makes it look like we’re really close [competitors] Derek And Shelisa [Williams]and we weren’t,” 26-year-old Kishori said exclusively Us weekly on Thursday, April 11, one day after the Cousins’ exit from the CBS series.
According to the rules of TARKishori had to sit on the sidelines without helping Karishma as she struggled to remove a bolt stuck in the skateboard.
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“I’m a Type-A guy, I’m very detail-oriented, and so it was really difficult to sit there and be super patient and not be allowed to say anything,” Kishori said. She added that, in hindsight, she and Karishma wished they had known that the roadblock posed a structural challenge.
“I love building furniture. I built my bookcase, my bedside table, my dresser and everything,” Kishori said.
During their time on the reality competition series, Karishma and Kishori often spoke about honoring Karishma’s parents, who both died of cancer. Although Kishori thinks her late aunt and uncle would be “proud” of their achievements TARShe also knows that they would have laughed at her mistakes.
“[They would] 100 percent [be] They laughed at us,” Kishori said, noting that they were particularly annoyed that Karishma was unable to build a skateboard.
“That’s probably what they would be upset about because [they’d be like]“Our girl skateboards,” she said.
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Kishori lived with Karishma’s family for six months during her freshman year of high school, so she considers her aunt and uncle her “second parents.” She and Karishma are more sisters than cousins, and their relationship has evolved as they have gotten older.
“[Karishma] is a few years younger than me. I’m 26, she’s 22. And when you’re younger, that age difference is really big. When I was in high school, she was in middle school, I taught her how to shave her legs, she stole my makeup and all those things,” Kishori said. “I think as we’ve gotten older that bond has become closer because we like similar things and go on trips together.”
After dealing with stressful situations with Karishma TARKishori said she learned lessons about communication that she applied to other relationships in her life.
“Just be understanding, patient and gentle with your loved ones,” she said. “And I’m also thinking about my aunt and uncle right now. Live your life to the fullest and live every day like it’s your last breath because you just don’t know. I think it’s so important to live a life full of adventure and spontaneity, and just living with joy is so important. I think we embodied that spirit in the race. … I think we were portrayed as chaotic a little bit, but I think chaotic in a good way.”
The Amazing Race airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS.