Turns out, the chaos of this year's Miss Universe pageant didn't end after Mexico's Fátima Bosch Fernández was crowned the winner last week in a competition marred by bullying, a hospitalization, and allegations of vote rigging.

Instead, inexplicably, it's gotten worse.

"Something was deeply wrong behind the scenes. We felt it. We saw it. We lived it," Miss Universe Haiti Melissa Queenie Sapini said in a statement released to media Wednesday.

Sapini's statement comes amid fresh controversies for the 2025 Miss Universe pageant, which was held in Bangkok and culminated in Bosch being named the winner last Friday.

At that point, the competition had already been plagued by a Thai organizer's sharp-tongued scolding of Bosch caught on a livestream, two judges dropping out — with one sug

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