Sobbing beauty queen throws down her crown blasts pageant over harassment, toxicity and body-shaming

She’s giving up her title.Rather than receiving the royal treatment after winning a worldwide beauty pageant in 2024, Rachel Gupta claims she was treated like second-class citizen — abandoned in a “dilapidated” house sans food, phone, money or security. “The whole time that I was working with Miss Grand International, the last seven months, I was constantly harassed, manipulated, ignored and left to fend for myself,” a sobbing Gupta, 21, from India, revealed while virally renouncing her royal status on YouTube.“These have been the hardest few months of my life.”Deeming Miss Grand International as a breeding ground for “toxicity and negativity,” Gupta aired out her grievances with the Thailand-based beauty pageant to over 1.4 million viewers in a 56-minute tell-all.In response, Miss Grand International has publicly revoked Gupta’s crown, alleging she failed to “fulfill her assigned duties, [engaged] in external projects without prior approval from the organization, and [refused] to participate in the scheduled trip to Guatemala.”However, Gupta begs to differ. After being crowned queen in October, the Gen Z claims MGI executives, with a figurative “gun to the head,” forced her to sign a “one-sided” contract, in which she blindly agreed to comply with all of the organization’s requests. But she claims the brand failed to fulfill its promises to provide her with a monthly stipend, penthouse lodging and “basic amenities.”“Immediately after winning, they moved me into a cramped hotel room, where all my suitcases couldn’t open properly because there wasn’t enough space,” Gupta carped on camera.

“Then, they shifted me to a dilapidated house which was way on the outside of the city.I had no car.

They didn’t give me anyway of getting around.”“I was stuck in the house until they decided that they needed me for something.”Virtually stranded without sustenance or cooking supplies, Gupta, a vegetarian, was forced to p...