Tracey Yukich was painted as the villain on this season's "The Biggest Loser" when she took control of the game and played it for all it was worth -- not once, but twice! So this week when she fell below the yellow line, it was no surprise to viewers that she was booted off the ranch by her fellow "Losers."

"I always knew that if I ever fell below that I would definitely be on the chopping block because of the choices that I made in the beginning when I got to the ranch," Tracey tells ET.

Those choices included breaking up contestants who had been partners when she won a challenge that gave her the power to decide which players would go on the blue team and which ones would become members of the black team in an attempt to stack the deck and give her team the strongest players. She also won another challenge -- which required her to eat several cupcakes -- something no one else was willing to do -- which gave her the power to determine which of a team's weigh-in numbers would count and, in effect, determining which teams would fall below the yellow line and be sent home. But Tracey felt she had no choice. She had to do whatever it took to keep her on the ranch, because she got there weeks after the rest of this season's contestants.

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