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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Taylor Hale addresses the fallout since making accusations of intersexual harassment against a erstwhile Miss USA vice president—and wherefore Joseph Abdin has her back.
Big Brother's Joseph Abdin Shows Support for Taylor Hale
In tumultuous times, you find retired who your existent friends are.
When Big Brother winner and erstwhile Miss Michigan 2021 Taylor Hale came guardant with allegations of intersexual harassment against erstwhile Miss USA vice president Max Sebrechts connected Oct. 28, she knew she would look inevitable backlash.
"Of course, determination are going to beryllium naysayers and doubters," Taylor told E! News exclusively, "that's ever the lawsuit with things similar this."
However, erstwhile it came the encouragement of her Big Brother co-star Joseph Abdin—whose buzzy showmance with Taylor was the speech of play 24—there was ne'er immoderate doubt.
"Taylor stepping up and doing that herself, she'll ever person my admiration for doing so," Joseph told E!. "I'm truthful arrogant of her and she ever knows I person her backmost and I'm supporting her on the full way."
Joseph revealed that helium has Taylor to convey for his first-ever foray into pageants and however overmuch they mean to those involved.
"She introduced maine to the pageant world," helium revealed. "When I went to Miss USA, it was specified a beauteous and unsocial experience. I consciousness similar I'm a portion of it myself. I privation thing much but to support that satellite and the women a portion of it."
Taylor, who alleged that Sebrechts made unwanted advances toward her the greeting aft she competed successful the 2021 Miss USA pageant, knew determination were risks successful coming forward, but was determined to usage her dependable for good.
"It's scary to person this thought that speaking up could beryllium bringing attraction to radical who don't privation to spot pageantry win oregon privation to look astatine this arsenic a crushed to bring pageantry down," she said. "All I'm trying to bash is support the women who vie successful these organizations due to the fact that that's what matters to me, not the radical who are trying to harm them."
E! News reached retired to Sebrechts for remark and did not perceive back. He has not been affiliated with the Miss USA enactment since January.
Taylor Hale and Joseph Abdin
Taylor besides acknowledged that her accrued fame after winning play 24 of Big Brother made this the close infinitesimal to talk out.
"It was important to maine to not conscionable fto rumors oregon ideas oregon whispers astir maine beryllium retired determination astatine this point," she explained. "I consciousness similar I person capable enactment to truly propulsion immoderate upwind down this. It's not conscionable a maine problem. It's thing I tin bash to truly springiness a level to each the radical who are impacted by it."
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