Rachel Gupta umiiyak na inilantad mga reklamo sa Miss Grand International

Rachel Gupta

NAIIYAK na inilahad ni Miss India Rachel Gupta ang mga dahilan kung bakit siya nag-resign bilang Miss Grand International 2024.

Napanood namin ang kanyang video kung saan inisa-isa niya ang mga pinagdaanang pagsubok nitong mga nakalipas na buwan.

“A lot of you knew something wasn’t right. I read all the comments. I know a lot of you could tell my reign wasn’t going very, very well. There were issues with the organization on their end.

“I just want to be completely transparent for all of you. You deserve to know the truth,” pahayag ng controversial beauty queen.

Pagpapatuloy niya, “These have been the worst few months of my life. I have been at rock bottom. Since then, it’s been going downhill,” aniya. “It’s taken a lot of courage to give up the crown that I worked so hard for and also to talk about it so openly.”

Ginawa raw niya ang lahat para makamit ang ultimate dream niya na maging Miss Grand International, “But all I’ve gotten in return is constant harassment, mental torture, mistreatment, and it’s on a systemic level. I don’t think they can ever change this.”

Rebelasyon ni Rachel, nagbayad umano ang ilang bansa para sa boto sa pamamagitan ng donation, “When I found out, we couldn’t afford to pay for the votes. It was so, so difficult to compete in terms of votes.”

 

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Sa kabila nito, naipanalo niya ang laban nang hindi nagdo-donate dahil wala talaga silang pondo.  Sabi pa niya tungkol sa Miss Grand International organization, “They only care about money. That is their only thing.”

Sabi pa ni Rachel, noong nasa Thailand siya ay hindi umano siya binigyan ng MGI ng kanyang mga pangangailangan, “You think, after winning, you’d think oh my god, it’s a dream come true, the organization is going to take care of me, but that’s not true.”

Ilan sa mga ni-request niya na hindi napagbigyan ay ang sariling sasakyan o service, mobile phone, at mga gamit sa pangluto. Kahit ngac raw ang hiniling niyang mga prutas ay hindi raw napagbigyan.

“I requested multiple times, please can we make sure there’s food? It’s their responsibility. I’m there with them, with that organization. They should at least make sure that they’re giving their queen food to eat.

“At the same time, they were hounding me, constantly just talking about my weight and my body all the time.

“I remember one time, they sent their representative to me and he comes up to me starts pinching me in different places. ‘Oh you need to lose weight here, you need to lose weight here,’” aniya pa na patuloy pa rin ang pag-iyak.

Patuloy pa niya, “What am I supposed to say to that? It’s so embarrassing and makes you feel so small and so bad. I understand, obviously I have to stay fit and stay in shape for the job but it’s so difficult when you don’t have access to anything and you’re just locked in a house all day long. What are you supposed to do?

“People are asking me, ‘why aren’t you posting Rachel? Why are there no updates from you? And I would just say I’m really bad at it. But the truth is, what should I post? What should I post? Sitting here in the house, there’s nobody to take pictures of me, I’m sitting here, depressed, nothing to do,” saad pa niya.

Rebelasyon pa ng beauty queen, “The truth is, frankly, they don’t know whether I’m alive or dead until we meet at the red carpet and smile for the cameras together. That’s all they care about, getting that picture. It’s such a false narrative.

“I was working so much and there was so much toxicity and negativity in the organization. Everyday, I would get more disillusioned. It would get harder and harder for me,” dagdag pa ni Rachel.

Sabi pa ng Indian beauty queen, nagsasalita siya ngayon dahil, “The only reason I’m doing this is to use my voice in a way that matters, not selling on TikTok but actually working with charities.

They used this ‘stop the war and violence’ thing, but it’s all fake. It’s all a facade. Where is the stop the war and violence. Where is the advocacy work for that?”

“I’ve heard Nawat (Itsaragrisil) say ‘it’s useless, that people don’t care about it. It’s not entertaining. It doesn’t make money so we’re not going to do it.'”

“I’m sorry but it’s not all about entertainment. Being a queen, that’s not what pageantry is about. You know, it’s about being a global public figure who uses her voice for good, you know, not these cheap entertainment tactics,” ani Rachel.

“They used that thing of dethronement, of taking the crown away as blackmail, to manipulate me for everything. You can’t bring up a single issue with them because they will just say, we’ll take your crown away,” ani Rachel.

“They do not care about what you speak, what you think. They only care about is what you look like.

“If you’re thinking of supporting this pageant, or if you’re a girl who’s thinking of—God forbid—of competing in this pageant, please go into way completely aware of all of these things that even if you win, you’ll be completely on your own and you’re not going to get any love or special treatment or safety or support from this organization.

“The organization, Miss Grand International Organization, does not care about you. It does not care about its queens. All it wants is to use its queens until the queens are not useful. And I could not be a part of this more, which is why I chose to give up my title and to resign,” sabi ni Rachel.

Ayon kay Rachel, patuloy siyang maniniwala sa kaniyang sarili at nagpasalamat sa suporta, pagmamahal at tiwala ng publiko.

“I want you to know that this decision to give the crown back, it did not come from a place of pain. It came from a place of strength.

“I don’t feel like I’ve lost anything, I feel like I gained everything. I feel free for the first time in months. I feel free and I feel like I can breathe. I’ve just been drowning for so long and I feel like I’ve come up for air. And I have my life back and I’m so grateful for that,” sabi pa ni Rachel.