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Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst's Cause of Death Revealed
A caller queen has been crowned Miss USA.
Miss Texas R'Bonney Gabriel walked distant a victor during the Oct. 3 contention astatine the Grand Sierra Resort successful Reno, Nev. Miss North Carolina Morgan Romano was awarded runner-up followed by Miss Nebraska Natalie Pieper.
During the ceremony, 2021 Miss USA titleholder Elle Smith gracefully passed down the crown, marking the extremity of her reign. Just yesterday, Elle reflected connected her clip with the rubric by sharing a connection with a photograph of her crowning past year.
"The infinitesimal that changed my beingness forever," Elle wrote connected Instagram Oct. 2. "Class of 2021, I anticipation I made you proud."
Now, the sparkling portion is successful the hands of R'Bonney—a manner decorator with plentifulness to beryllium learned astir her.
R'Bonney made past arsenic a titleholder by being the archetypal Asian American pistillate to gain the Miss Texas USA title, per ABC News. She was besides the archetypal Filipina-American to clasp the title.
Not lone does she bask pageantry, but besides occurrence dancing arsenic it "calms her caput and lifts her spirit." And it's harmless to accidental she has a existent originative broadside arsenic well.
During the multi-day Miss USA gathering, 51 contestants competed successful the Miss USA 2022 Costume Show connected Oct. 2. R'Bonney took location the triumph for that contention (on apical of scoring the eventual prize of becoming Miss USA 2022). But adjacent earlier stepping connected that signifier for the costume competition, it seemed the accidental to plan a look that paid homage to Texas was a triumph successful itself for her.
"I was truthful excited to find retired Miss USA had a authorities costume portion!" she wrote successful an Oct. 2 post. "I knew I wanted to beryllium the Texas authorities flower, a bluebonnet, but with a glamour twist."
The fashionista adjacent designed her Miss USA interrogation outfit herself, with a peculiar message. “I designed this to wage tribute to my parents,” she wrote connected Instagram. "My ma is from Beaumont, TX and my begetter is from the Philippines. They got joined successful Manila Philippines. I manus painted the aforesaid angiosperm plan from my mothers wedding formal onto my sleeves and tied successful a accepted Maria Clara Filipina collar shape. I person immense gratitude for the oppoortunites [sic] my parents provided maine and wanted to explicit my emotion to them done this.”
While the lawsuit was a clip for celebration, it was besides a clip for reflection. This year, the quality pageant honored the precocious Cheslie Kryst—the Miss USA 2019 victor who died by suicide successful January astatine the property of 30.
In Cheslie's memory, the enactment opted to clasp the ceremony in the aforesaid venue she was crowned Miss USA 3 years ago.
"In 2019, I had the grant and privilege of judging the Miss USA pageant astatine the Grand Sierra Resort and Spa successful Reno and crowning erstwhile Miss USA Cheslie Kryst," Miss USA Organization President Crystle Stewart told E! News successful July. "In grant of Cheslie's memory, we recovered it to beryllium a fitting afloat ellipse infinitesimal that this year, the 2022 Miss USA pageant volition beryllium held astatine the aforesaid venue successful Reno, Nevada."
Of the decision, she added, "Not lone arsenic a mode to support Cheslie's bequest live but besides to wage homage to the large metropolis of Reno."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, delight telephone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
