Exclusive | Survivor 49’s Jawan Pitts in therapy over black players being voted out

Jawan Pitts is still reeling from his experience on “Survivor 49.”

The 28-year-old video editor became the fourth black player voted off in a row during Wednesday night’s episode — which he’s still processing months after filming ended.

“First off, it was a topic of discussion out there,” Pitts exclusively told The Post on Monday. “Me and Kristina [Mills] had a back and forth about it.”

“I think as a viewer, it’s hard to watch. When it happened on [Season] 42… you know, I’m a part of the community too, so I definitely felt it,” he continued. “But I think in the game it was so hard to put a pin on it. And even experiencing it, I’m going to therapy to truly kind of process. I’m like, ‘Why? Why did that happen?’”

But Pitts clarified that from his perspective, he doesn’t believe there were “any alternative motives” in how the post-merge boot order has panned out.

“I think the game was so fluid and there was so many things — advantages, variables,” he said. “So I think that’s how I feel personally.”

Pitts also told The Post he wanted to address “the elephant in the room” regarding the fact that he voted out fellow black contestants Nate Moore, MC Chukwujekwu and Alex Moore.

“I just want to step back and look at the optics of the jury and just hold space for that for a moment. And maybe anybody that’s watching it and feeling uncomfortable, I want their feelings to feel validated,” he explained. “And also more specifically with MC, I want to hold space for her hurt feelings. But I also want to use this time to share some insight into why I made those decisions.”

“When MC comes to me and talks, she really confides in me like, ‘Hey, I do not want to see another black person on the jury.’ And I was like, ‘Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate you,’” Pitts recalled. “I took matters in my own hands not to target MC. I want to make sure me and her see another day.”

Pitts explained that he tried to keep Chukwujekwu in the game, but he didn’t get his way mostly because of Savannah Louie’s influence.

As for Moore, Pitts acknowledged he voted out the political communications director because he was “a triple threat.”

“Every decision I made out there was about my family,” he said. “I’m a broke dude from South Jersey. I live in L.A. My bills do not stop. But I just thought this was my one opportunity that have a safety net for my siblings. So every decision I made moving forward, I put that to that scale.”

“Survivor” airs Wednesdays on CBS and streams on Paramount+.