Carrie Prejean Blames Firing on Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Answer

Us Magazine - June 11, 2009 5:05 AM PDT
Story photo: Carrie Prejean Blames Firing on Anti-Same-Sex Marriage AnswerMiss California Carrie Prejean competes during the 2009 Miss USA Pageant Sunday April 19, 2009 in Las Vegas. AP Photo/Eric JamisonUs Magazine
Carrie Prejean says she was fired as Miss California because she denounced gay marriage during the April 19 pageant.

"It's just because of my answer, I think," Prejean told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush Wednesday night. After gossip blogger Perez Hilton asked her about same-sex nuptials, Prejean said she felt marriage was "between a man and a woman."

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Prejean, 22, continues: "None of this would be happening right now if I just said, Yeah, gays should get married. You're right, Perez Hilton."

(She also blamed her answer for losing the Miss USA competition.)

Pageant director Keith Lewis announced that Prejean lost her crown Wednesday because she failed to honor her commitments (she apparently skipped multiple pageant appearances). She was replaced by runner-up Miss Malibu Tami Farrell.

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Shanna Moakler -- who resigned her position as California pageant director last month -- told Usmagazine.com Wednesday that her "faith has been restored in the Miss Universe Organization and with [pageant owner] Donald Trump."

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Trump -- who originally allowed Prejean to keep her crown despite revelations that she had posed in her underwear as a teen -- said he was standing by Lewis' decision to fire Prejean.


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  • H@CKER
    The whole comment on America and Iran?? OK get off the drugs and learn sentence structure please!! This is about a contest not a war!! I think this is crap when the gays run this place. I think if you love each other you should be allowed to marry but that wont happen because of the old people still living. Wait till all the people from the 40s and 50s die off. This is a sexual preference issue.
    report abuseposted August 28, 2009 11:43 PM PDT
  • americangirl
    Perez Hilton is nothing but an immoral, no class, PIG who makes $$ by attacking others strictly for self-benefit and money. He is spews his hate at anyone who disagrees with him! He is the poster boy for shallowness, arrogance, insanity and invasion of privacy. Anyone who supports him- SHAME ON YOU!
    report abuseposted June 24, 2009 4:06 PM PDT
  • 川龙
    I think in this point, Iran can say they have more righteousness than America. How America people allow this unfair things happen? Did they really know about to respect other's freeview. I make me laught for American people say their country is a democracy and respect freeview of others but they actually didn't.
    report abuseposted June 12, 2009 8:33 PM PDT
  • 川龙
    I think in this point, Iran can say they have more righteousness than America. How America people allow this unfair things happen? Did they really know about to respect other's freeview. I make me laught for American people say their country is a democracy and respect freeview of others but they actually didn't.
    report abuseposted June 12, 2009 8:33 PM PDT
  • Catherine777
    It doesn't matter; the ugmo 1st runner up doesn't even get the title for half a year. Carrie got all the good stuff & will be more successful than any past winners. She has way more important things to do than serve the liberal agenda of losers like Keith Lewis & Shanna Moakler. Her book is going to be a best seller & piss off all the losers who are bashin
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 4:23 PM PDT
  • StreetPeaches
    People scared of gays having the human right to marry should do us all a favor and simply DON'T GO TO A GAY WEDDING!!
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 3:43 PM PDT
  • Killer G
    Carrie should have just said "Thanks but NO Thanks in the first place. We knew they would either overwhelm her or give her something she wouldn't do. Tami whats her face, is ugly and opportunistic. I hope either straight people stop watching the contest or they get more qualified judges. Move on Carrie, move on.
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 3:37 PM PDT
  • americangirl
    no- yardtape needs to do us all a favor and go drive off a cliff!!!!!!!! Scumbag
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 2:24 PM PDT
  • StreetPeaches
    Yardape you need a spankin.
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 2:19 PM PDT
  • __A_YAHOO_USER__
    I WANT HER TO TAKE A GIANT DUMP ON MY CHEST
    report abuseposted June 11, 2009 2:08 PM PDT
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