"Survivor" winner collapses on plane

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Tennessee nurse who braved the Australian Outback to win the second "Survivor" competition barely made a plane trip to Los Angeles.

After taking a prescribed sleeping pill, Tina Wesson passed out Tuesday before a plane from New York left the ground.

Wesson, 40, was traveling cross-country to appear Tuesday night on CBS' "The Late Late Show" with Craig Kilborn.

"I'm not good at taking medication, I never take any, so when I took it I was so exhausted that I completely passed out into the aisle," Wesson said. "When I came to, they brought a doctor in and everything to check my blood pressure, my pulse and all that stuff."

Kilborn joked that Wesson, who won the television show's $1 million prize last week, "should take a train home."

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