Georgia Jane Ray: Survivor star’s heartbreaking news after elimination

Georgia Jane Ray’s elimination from reality TV show Survivor was nothing compared to the terrible news she received just days later.

Georgia Jane Ray is grateful to be alive after her stint on reality show, Survivor Australia.

The 35-year-old forensic psychologist wasn’t aware she was pregnant at the time production started and doctors thought she was suffering an issue with her bowel when she was taken to hospital during filming.

Days after her elimination, which aired on Sunday night, Confidential can reveal the mother of two suffered an ectopic pregnancy.

“They can be fatal,” she said. “I am grateful to be alive and also in a state to be able to be there for my kids. I am lucky to go home when I did, that was divine intervention. If I had stayed out there, I could have possibly lost my life. I had no idea I had internal bleeding. I see myself as lucky.”

Noosa-based Ray and husband David are parents to six-year-old Oscar and five-year-old Claudia. They had not been trying for a third child and she was on birth control before filming began so it came as a great shock that she was six or seven weeks pregnant at the time of the operation.

“I would have been two or three weeks pregnant from the beginning of the show,” she said. “I’m speaking up because there is a lot of stigma around it and it is important to talk about these issues. It is also important to raise awareness around ectopic pregnancies (where a fertilised egg attaches somewhere outside the uterus.”

Ray had one of her fallopian tubes removed in the surgery, which drastically reduces her chances of falling pregnant again.

That said, she and her husband are resolved not to have any more children.

Georgia Jane Ray had an ectopic pregnancy days after finishing on Survivor.

“We had been talking but let’s just say it has been put to bed now,” she said.

“I am very lucky in the fact that I have two beautiful children so I consider myself pretty grateful that I am at that stage of my life where I have had my children. The upheaval of this whole experience has made me even more grateful for the two children I have and just to have my health.”

While admitting to feeling a range of emotions, Ray has no regrets.

“I am not angry, I am a pretty philosophical person and I like to see things happen for a reason,” she explained.

“I have had a lot of questions and a lot of why did that have to happen a week or two before I went on the show.”

She added: “I definitely don’t regret going on the show. So many life lessons have come from this. Do I regret not doing a pregnancy test the day I went on the show? Probably, yes. But these things happen in life and I had absolutely no reason to suspect. I don’t think for me mentally it is good to go down a path of focusing on regrets.”