Last year’s winner of mrs. World, a beauty pageant for married women, has said she will return her crown after being crowned one of the 2021 winners’ winner. Sri Lanka World snatched away and claimed she was divorced – a violation of the rules for the competition. .
Pushpika de Silva has just been crowned as Mrs. Sri Lanka World during a match in Colombo, Sri Lanka, last weekend when Caroline Jurie, the Mrs winner in 2020, entered the stage and announced that ‘there is a rule that you must be married and not divorced. ”
“So,” she said, “I take my first step and say that the crown goes to the first runner-up.”
Jurie (28) then pulled the crown of me. De Silva’s head down and pulls her hair in the process before placing it on the runner-up, who holds back tears and later gives a speech. Me. Silva left the stage when Mrs. Jurie, the two runners-up, and Chula Padmendra, a Sri Lankan model who was also on stage, embraced. Me. Padmendra cheered and raised her fist in the air.
The controversy was reminiscent of the 2009 video awards, when Kanye West stormed onto the stage and grabbed a microphone from Taylor Swift, who had just won the best female video, and declared: ‘I’m going to get you ready, but Beyoncé’s one of had the best videos of all time. ”
The World Cup describes itself on Facebook as “the first beauty pageant in the world for married women, created in 1984.” Me. According to the organization’s website, the jury was crowned as Mrs. World during the 2020 competition in Las Vegas.
Me. Silva said in a Facebook post after the delivery that she was divorced and not divorced. She said she sustained ‘injuries to my skull’ and that she was suing me. The jury argues “because of the injustice and insult that took place.” The police arrested me. Jury and Mrs. Padmendra arrested “on charges of simple injury and criminal case,” reports BBC News.
“Even though my crown was offended in front of everyone, I will keep my head straight,” she said. Silva wrote.
A representative of Mrs. World-based California-based World Organization, according to its Facebook page, requested a comment to refer to “where the incident took place” in Sri Lanka. “One of the organizers of the competition, Chandimal Jayasinghe, told BBC News: ‘We are disappointed. It was a shame how Caroline Jurie behaved on stage and the Mrs. World organization has already begun an investigation into the matter. ”
Jurie, Sri Lankan, said in a video on Instagram that she ‘wants to express my dismay at the recent actions that have led to controversy’ and that she ‘just wants a fair stage’.
‘Even though I have to lose the crown for the values I stand for, I believe I have the purpose for which Mrs. World crown stands, ‘she said before taking off the crown.