Sobbing beauty queen throws down her crown — blasts pageant over ‘harassment,’ ‘toxicity’ and ‘body-shaming’

She’s giving up her title.

Rather than receiving nan royal curen aft winning a worldwide beauty pageant successful 2024, Rachel Gupta claims she was treated for illustration second-class national — abandoned successful a “dilapidated” location sans food, phone, money aliases security. 

“The full clip that I was moving pinch Miss Grand International, nan past 7 months, I was perpetually harassed, manipulated, ignored and near to fend for myself,” a sobbing Gupta, 21, from India, revealed while virally renouncing her royal position connected YouTube. “These person been nan hardest fewer months of my life.”

Deeming Miss Grand International arsenic a breeding crushed for “toxicity and negativity,” Gupta aired retired her grievances pinch nan Thailand-based beauty pageant to complete 1.4 cardinal viewers successful a 56-minute tell-all.

In response, Miss Grand International has publicly revoked Gupta’s crown, alleging she grounded to “fulfill her assigned duties, [engaged] successful outer projects without anterior support from nan organization, and [refused] to participate successful nan scheduled travel to Guatemala.”

However, Gupta begs to differ. 

After being crowned queen successful October, nan Gen Z claims MGI executives, pinch a figurative “gun to nan head,” forced her to motion a “one-sided” contract, successful which she blindly agreed to comply pinch each of nan organization’s requests. 

But she claims nan marque grounded to fulfill its promises to supply her pinch a monthly stipend, penthouse lodging and “basic amenities.”

“Immediately aft winning, they moved maine into a cramped edifice room, wherever each my suitcases couldn’t unfastened decently because location wasn’t capable space,” Gupta carped connected camera. “Then, they shifted maine to a dilapidated location which was measurement connected nan extracurricular of nan city. I had nary car. They didn’t springiness maine anyhow of getting around.”

“I was stuck successful nan location until they decided that they needed maine for something.”

Virtually stranded without sustenance aliases cooking supplies, Gupta, a vegetarian, was forced to acquisition herself a Thai cellphone for ordering takeout. Surviving connected thing but fast-food negatively altered her figure, she said.

“How americium I expected to enactment patient aliases return attraction of myself erstwhile I can’t eat location cooked food? It was truthful bad,” nan siren groaned, adding that she was besides denied entree to a gym and workout equipment. “Most days I’d extremity up eating immoderate junk I had aliases I would bid food. But because it’s truthful acold away, nan drivers would extremity up canceling.” 

She blames MGI for nan struggle. 

“It’s their responsibility. I’m pinch that organization,” said Gupta, admitting that nan ordeal rendered her depressed. “They should astatine slightest make judge that they’re giving their queen nutrient to eat.”

However, alternatively of showing interest for her well-being, she says nan powers-that-be were only concerned astir her changing waistline.  

“They were hounding me, perpetually talking astir my weight and my body,” Gupta cried. “They sent a typical to me, and he conscionable comes up to maine and starts pinching maine successful places and he’s like, ‘Oh, you request to suffer weight here. You request to suffer weight here.’”

“It’s truthful embarrassing,” she wept. “It makes you consciousness truthful mini and truthful bad.”

Gupta past explained that she’d reported a imaginable robbery to MGI organizers, hoping nan honchos would boost information astatine nan alleged slummy house. However, she claims her cries for thief fell connected deaf ears. 

“I realized, successful that moment, that these group will ne'er support me,” said nan tearful head-turner. “As agelong arsenic I’m location to grin astatine their events, support my assemblage ace skinny nan measurement they for illustration — they don’t attraction if I unrecorded aliases die.”

“I was wholly my own.”

Throughout her reign arsenic Miss MGI, Gupta says she was barred from participating successful defense and kindness work, but bullied into trading “cheap and tacky” products connected TikTok for nan pageant’s financial gains. 

“They are cold-hearted business people. They conscionable want to extract your use, make money disconnected of you and that it is,” Gupta asserted. 

“The different point they attraction astir is really you look,” she continued, accusing institution higher-ups of spewing, “body-shaming, disgusting, deplorable comments,” astir their competitors. 

“It made maine consciousness sick,” said Gupta. “I was fresh to propulsion up.”

In MGI’s charismatic statement, shared to Instagram connected May 28, nan statement straight responded to each of their ex-star’s allegations. It besides asked that its crown beryllium returned to office “within 30 days.”

Gupta is among a increasing number of beauty pageant titleholders who’ve precocious sashayed distant from nan winner’s sash. 

Both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA 2024 stepped down from their respective positions due to alleged “bullying” by nan organization’s CEO. The Miss Teen USA runner up, too, turned down nan honor amid nan chaos. 

Gupta hopes different pageant queen wannabes deliberation doubly earlier signing up for a imaginable setup. 

“Even if you win, you’ll beryllium wholly connected your own,” she warned. “You will not get immoderate emotion aliases typical of curen aliases support from this organization.”

“The Miss Grand International statement [does not] attraction astir you.“