Dethroned Myanmar beauty queen won't return crown unless pageant organisers apologise
Beauty queen blasts organisers for calling her 'dishonest' and denies claims she was pressured into having breast surgery
A dethroned beauty queen from Myanmar says she would not return her US$100,000 crown until the pageant’s organisers apologise for calling her a liar and a thief.
May Myat Noe, the this year Miss Asia Pacific World winner, insisted at a press conference on Tuesday that she had done nothing wrong.
She denied accepting breast implants, as claimed by David Kim, director of media for the South Korea-based pageant. He said the surgery was provided free of charge to help boost her into superstardom.
Kim said the teen was stripped of her title because she was dishonest and unappreciative, and that she ran off with her bejeweled tiara.
May Myat Noe says that she boarded a plane for Myanmar without realising she had been dethroned.
Earlier, Hla Nu Tun, who initially acted as her unofficial manager, said Noe and the organisers had disagreed over who should oversee her career. Noe’s mother wanted control but so did the organisers, she said.