Miss Universe Australia finalist Brigitte Murphy reveals brutal accident weeks before pageant

A young Australian beauty pageant contestant looks unrecognizable after sharing her facial injuries following a horror accident while playing netball.Brigitte Murphy is one of the women representing Victoria in the 2025 Miss Universe Australia competition, and is among the 30 finalists who flew to Vietnam on May 11 for their swimwear shoot with photographer Jarrad Seng.But, just two weeks out from the shoot, the Albury-Wodonga veterinarian took to the netball court and ended up with a scabbed and bruised face.The Miss Universe National finalist took to TikTok to share details of her fall and subsequent injuries, including a fractured tooth.“I just can’t believe this,” Murphy said in her first of a series of clips, adding it was the “worst possible case scenario” — barring broken bones that prevented her from walking.“I played netball and as I was mid-air catching the ball I was pushed and I had about point five of a second to turn around and brace myself,” she said.The pageant queen managed to protect herself to an extent but unfortunately her cheek and eye grazed the surface of the court.Her tooth was also fractured.“I mean, if you don’t laugh, you cry – right?”Murphy documented her injury healing over the next few days, saying she felt incredibly uncomfortable and wasn’t able to sleep.

Her eye also swelled up significantly more in a follow-up clip on day two.“I have 13 days until Vietnam with Miss Universe, and this is what my face looks like,” she said.“This morning my upper eyelid has completely blown up.

I’ve got work today so I’m going to try my best to cover it up,” she added while applying some concealer.In a third update, Murphy said her GP expressed concerns about a facial fracture but thankfully a CT scan showed she was in the “all clear”.She also went to the dentist and was thankfully told there was “no chance” of the tooth dying due to the fracture.To help heal the wound, the contestant explained she was ...