Mrs World 2020 Caroline Jurie Arrested Over Snatching & Hurting Mrs Sri Lanka 2021 Pushpika De Silva
Moments after Pushpika De Silva won the title, Caroline Jurie, who is also Sri Lankan, came on stage and snatched the crown from her, saying she was ineligible because she was divorced.
Caroline Jurie Arrested Over Mrs Sri Lanka 2021 Row! (Pic Credit: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested the reigning Mrs. World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant and allegedly causing injuries. She was later released on bail.
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A bitter row broke out when a beauty queen claimed she was left badly injured when her crown was pulled off her head.
Beauty queen Pushpika De Silva, had just won the title of ‘Mrs Sri Lanka’ when the former winner Caroline Jurie, who is also the reigning Mrs World took her crown back.
The bizarre moment was captured in a video published by the Colombo Gazette.
An issue arose Jurie says in the footage because of a pageant rule that prevents women who have been divorced from winning the title.
‘There is a rule that you have to be married and not divorced, so I am taking my first steps in saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up,’ Jurie tells the audience.
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