A history-making pageant winner from North Carolina who was dethroned by officials has responded to claims she was at fault for her “language.”
Brittany Boltinhouse, 27, who was named Miss North Carolina USA, was the first married woman to take the title. She’s also the first person of Honduran descent to win the title.
Pageant officials, citing what they allege were comments from an old social media post from possibly as long as a decade ago, took her title away, claiming they don’t allow “racism, homophobia, transphobia, nor language that strips any person of their dignity.”
That charge comes from pageant chief Thom Brodeur, who did not specify individual posts.
But Boltinhouse suggested there were other factors, explaining in an interview posted to YouTube that she has the “right to be a conservative in this country.”
“I believe everyone has the right to say what they want to say,” she continued,
She said the pageant was a “great experience, But, “I believe that mhy title was ripped from me for me beliefs.”
She confirms that, “every teenager has made a mistake,” but calls for people to judge her for what she is today.
A report at the Gateway Pundit said those “resurfaced” posts allegedly show her repeatedly using the N-word.
In her interview with the Carolina Journal, she explained, “Things may have happened decades ago, but I’m here to talk about the hardworking woman standing up there as Miss NC USA that I won fair and square.”
Miss North Carolina 2026, Brittany Boltinhouse, has been stripped of her title due to social media posts she made as a teenager 10 years ago (see video below) and will not be able to compete in the Miss USA competition later this month.
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She confirmed, “I’m very much at peace, and I’m actually glad it happened to me and not some other young lady that, you know, maybe just probably wouldn’t make it through what I’m going through right now.”
She undermined the pageant’s claims by stating, “I believe and think I was stripped of my title because of my political stance and my belief system as a conservative Christian woman. … I’m proud of my faith. I’m proud of my standards. I’m a proud conservative woman, but a Christian woman. I’m a God-fearing woman.”
She explained she’s part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons.
The Daily Mail also reported her family made a statement, that, “It’s important to put her truth out and have the proper narrative out versus a narrative that is saving the face [of] an organization. … As you can imagine, there’s a lot we would like to say but we are taking the time to be in prayer and unity and [will] respond in a manner [that] God calls us to.”
