Maura Higgins Left Stunned as Rob Rausch Wins $220,800 in The Traitors Season 4 Finale

maura higgins was among the final players in a dramatic Season 4 finale that ended with Rob Rausch walking away with the $220, 800 prize and a string of stunned reactions from fellow contestants.

Rob Rausch takes the pot after final roundtable

The season closed Thursday night when Rob Rausch, a day-one Traitor and former Love Island contestant, emerged as the sole victor and the winner of $220, 800. The finale sent the last players through one final mission that included a helicopter jump into the water, then into a last roundtable where Eric Nam, Johnny Weir, Mark Ballas, maura higgins, Rausch and Tara Lipinski had faced cascading eliminations earlier in the episode.

Mark Ballas was the Traitors’ last murder victim earlier in the episode, and Johnny Weir was voted off in the closing rounds, splitting up the Olympic duo. At the flaming roundtable, each remaining player threw red or green bags into the flame to signal whether they believed any Traitors remained; the four who participated chose red. With Eric Nam, maura higgins and Rausch left, Nam was the lone vote to move forward while Rausch and Higgins pushed for another elimination; Nam voted for Rausch, and both Rausch and Higgins voted for Nam.

Maura Higgins blindsided at the reveal

One account of the finale describes a shock reveal that left Maura Higgins teary-eyed: when the final outcome was declared, Higgins smiled through a reveal that she was a Traitor only to learn that Rausch had been a Traitor the entire game, prompting her to exclaim, "Oh my god, I'm so stupid, " and call him an "absolute asshole" before telling him to stop talking. She later accused him of breaking a pinky promise and labeled him a "fucking snake, " while also conceding, "fair play though. "

Another account published from the finale says Rob and Eric Nam made it to the end with Faithful Maura Higgins and that Rob revealed his Traitor status to Higgins after the three turned on Nam and banished him. The two versions differ on Higgins’s formal status at the reveal; the discrepancy is unclear in the provided context.

Traitors’ betrayals and early moves

Throughout the season, Rausch repeatedly turned on other Traitors: he voted to banish Lisa Rinna and Candiace Dillard Bassett earlier in the run. The original trio of Traitors included Rinna and Dillard Bassett, while Donna Kelce was introduced as a newly revealed "secret Traitor. " Rausch also recruited Eric Nam late in the game and ultimately backstabbed that recruit as he closed out the finale.

Reunion confrontations: Rob, Colton and accusations

The reunion special brought more questions: Colton Underwood faced backlash over his casting, his friendship with Rob in the castle and other controversies. Candiace Dillard Bassett and Lisa Rinna had the biggest issues to work out with Rausch at the reunion, accusing him of not collaborating with them as fellow Traitors; both Rausch and Colton denied allegations that Rob had let Colton in on Traitor status.

Colton said, "It's no secret that Rob and I were working together. I thought I was working with another Faithful. Rob and I bounced names off each other and I trusted him a lot, " adding that he "would never cheat in this game. " He also said he had offered to work with Lisa Rinna because he "wanted to be recruited, " and that his choice to talk about taking Rinna "hostage" on the show was strategic—he would have kept her in the game to see if she would flip.

Donna Kelce, promises and the aftermath

Donna Kelce, who served as the secret Traitor, told the reunion that her children thought she "gave it my best shot" and that they believed she was "probably more treacherous than we thought you could be. " She also said Travis Kelce's fiancée, Taylor Swift, "is a watcher" and "so is her family. "

After the finale, Rausch said he had set the $220, 800 aside "for the future" and joked about promises to Maura Higgins, including a pledge to buy her a Birkin bag; he also confirmed he is not single. Maura, meanwhile, said she was more focused on the Birkin than anything else. Candiace accused Rausch of sharing Traitor information with Colton, which both men denied; Rausch pointed to "very strict rules" and "cameras everywhere" as constraints. Rausch also expressed remorse for having to backstab the person he was close to in the game, meaning Higgins, and for

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The reunion followed the finale, and shortly before the reunion Colton Underwood did a tell-all interview with Vanity Fair.