Former Miss North Carolina USA is 'not sorry' for using N-word as disturbing posts led to her being stripped of title
The beauty queen stripped of her Miss North Carolina USA title refuses to apologise after resurfaced posts showed her using the N-word.
Brittany Boltinhouse, 27, was crowned champion last month and was set to compete at the Miss USA beauty pageant on 27 August.
However, the Honduran-American’s title was revoked last week by the Miss USA Organisation due to ‘recently surfaced information’, with the organisation's chairman Thom Brodeur adding that it ‘does not tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia nor language that strips any person of their dignity - whoever they are. That is not a policy written for a press release’.
"When that standard is broken, the title cannot continue as though nothing happened," he added. "What was brought to us was not a single moment. It reflected conduct over an extended period of time."
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The first runner-up in Miss North Carolina USA Myla Hadley was awarded the first-placed title and is set to represent the state at the upcoming pageant in Miami.
When the Daily Mail asked her if she believed she should apologize for using the N-word, she replied: “No. Not at all.
“I'm going to address those [tweets] in my lawsuit, I'm not going to deny them or run from them. But they did not take my crown because of those posts.
“[It] was because of my political and religious stance. My rights were violated, and I'm going to stand up for myself. They defined a narrative of me, and I'm here to redefine that now.”
It comes after the resurfaced tweets using racial slurs, all of which have been linked to Boltinhouse, were published by the NC Beat.
The tweets, under the name 'Sosa the Stallion', date between 2017 and 2019 and include multiple uses of the N-word.
Meanwhile, her lawyer Patrick Mincey said to the Daily Mail that Boltinhouse had been 'defamed’.
“She's been called a racist, a homophobe, a transphobe. Those are false slanders and slurs,” he said.
“The recordings are going to show exactly why she was stripped of her crown. It had nothing to do with posts from a decade ago, which we aren't running from and Brittany isn't apologizing for,” he reiterated.
Boltinhouse says she is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon or LDS Church) and holds 'conservative political and social values'.
Elaborating on her faith, she told the Carolina Journal: "I’m proud of my standards. I’m a proud conservative woman, but a Christian woman. I’m a God-fearing woman
"I believe we believe that we are a nation under god, and that’s who I am and that’s who my parents taught me to be — is a person who loves this country because this country has given me opportunity, and opportunity to show my religious beliefs, and I am proud of that."
Anish Vij