Miss Puerto Rico stripped of crown for 'state of mind issue' before Miss Universe exhibition

Puerto Rico's 2016 Miss Universe adversary was bare of her acme on Thursday afterwards admiral said
she had an attitude problem.

Kristhielee Caride will no best represent the U.S. area in the accessible all-embracing adorableness contest. Caride won the acme four months ago but afresh did an account with a bounded bi-weekly in which she was criticized for getting dismissive and adage she did not adulation cameras.

Desiree Lowry, civic administrator of Miss Universe Puerto Rico, was present during that interview.

"I basic the apple to absorb me," Lowry said. "You consistently accept to put your best face advanced ... it's a accustomed that we are traveling to be in foreground of cameras and that we accept to acknowledgment all types of questions."

Lowry said Caride never apologized and alone told admiral that she was accepting a claimed botheration and that the adventure would not echo itself. But Lowry said Caride again canceled added appearances because she said she had a doctor's arrangement that she banned to reschedule.

Caride said in a diffuse Facebook column on Thursday that adorableness queens are not absolved from accepting a bad day and that she was aboveboard sorry.

"I accustomed my animosity to get in the way of my work," she wrote.

Caride said she did not accede with the accommodation that Lowry and added admiral made, but that she was axis in her bandage with dignity.

Lowry presented the new Miss Universe adversary at a columnist appointment captivated on Thursday at a restaurant in the basic of San Juan. Brenda Jimenez appeared in a sparkling adornment and a strapless red dress with a somewhat afraid attending on her face.

"I still haven't absolutely candy the information," she said.

It is the aboriginal time a Puerto Rico Miss Universe adversary has absent her acme afore the big accident is held. Miss Puerto Rico 1994, Brenda Robles, was absolved during that year's Miss Universe challenge because she was pregnant.