Pre-filming, contestants raised funds for their chosen charity before embarking on a trip around Australia to participate in different challenges.
Ms Lagozzino has previously contributed to a variety of charitable causes.
When she saw that Myeloma Australia was on the list of charities she could fundraise and raise awareness for, she contacted Channel 7 and signed herself up.
Participants were required to raise a minimum of $10,000, with $1000 out of the entire amount reserved for necessities along the journey.
Ms Lagozzino raised around $11,000.
“And you just have this best adventure ever with the other fundraisers, but it’s like a reward for what you did, and you go and experience things,” she said.
“It’s like a little travel segment and stuff, and it’s just so that you can wind down from raising all that money.
“You can talk about your charity, you can talk about why you picked that charity ... and I was like, well, that’s pretty good.”
When Ms Lagozzino was invited back to the Legends Series, a spin-off that gathered previous Adventure All Star members back for another adventure, she was ready to step out of her comfort zone and get involved.
It was there where Ms Lagozzino met former AFL footballer, founder of Charity TV Global and Adventure All Stars executive producer Troy Gray.
That time around, she raised over $22,000 for another community member with brain cancer.
Adventure All Stars participants were flown to Adelaide to engage in similar activities, but the trip did not go as smoothly as planned.
“I could tell on that show that something wasn’t right,” she said.
“Something wasn’t adding up.”
Funds to cover basic necessities were missing, and none of the participants knew when they were going to be flown home.
In several instances, Ms Lagozzino was forced to dip into her own pocket, covering not just fuel costs but even purchasing plane tickets for the entire group.
She was never reimbursed.
At one point, she and her husband were invited to invest $100,000.
Ms Lagozzino was relieved they never did.
Eventually, she became suspicious about the program.
She wasn’t able to get in touch with Mr Gray, and only found out later that her calls had been blocked.
That was when Ms Lagozzino was informed by her charity that it hadn’t received the money from Adventure All Stars or from the Legends Series.
She wasn’t even on the charity’s list of donors.
“I feel like I’ve got all the guilt, even though none of it was my control,” she said.
“But it doesn’t make you feel any less guilty knowing that I raised that money for two different men, two different charities, and neither of them are going to see a cent of that.
“What’s worse is we live in a small town. That money came from Tatura people, Shepparton people, all that surrounding area, out of the pockets of people already struggling.”
Charity TV Global’s charity registration with The Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission has been revoked.
In a statement to the ABC, Mr Gray said the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic affected “philanthropic support” and brought about the “collapse of vital airline and accommodation partnerships”.
Liquidators have been in place since June 27.
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