The video shows Mrs World, Caroline Jurie, tugging and pulling at the crown
The winner of Sri Lanka s popular beauty pageant, Mrs Sri Lanka , sustained head injuries after a fight broke out on stage during the crowning ceremony. It all started when beauty queen Pushpika De Silva bagged the Mrs Sri Lanka title on Sunday. Moments after Mrs De Silva concluded her victory walk, the reigning Mrs World and 2019 Mrs Sri Lanka, Caroline Jurie, did something unexpected. She snatched the crown from Mrs De Silva s head and awarded it to the first runner-up.
Caroline Jurie also had an explanation for this. In a video uploaded by the Colombo Gazette, Mrs Jurie explained on stage that as per pageant rules a divorced woman cannot hold the title. There is a rule that you have to be married and not divorced. So, I am taking the first step in saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up, she said.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Pushpika De Silva said she was not divorced but separated.
The Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant descended into chaos at the weekend when a former title holder declared that the winner was ineligible because she was divorced, and forcibly removed her crown.
A video of the Sunday event opened with the 2019 winner of the competition and reigning Mrs World, Caroline Jurie, speaking to the audience shortly after the winner and runners-up were announced in Colombo. There is a rule that you have to be married and not divorced, so I am taking my first steps, saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up, Jurie said, before walking across the stage to remove the crown from Pushpika De Silva, standing with a bouquet of flowers in her arms.