Utah’s Miss USA cited sexual harassment, ‘toxic work environment’ in resignation, report says

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Utah's own Miss USA Noelia Voigt wrote in her resignation letter that she was sexually harassed and dealt with a toxic work environment within the pageant organization, according to a report from NBC News.

Miss USA Noelia Voigt at Arempas in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. Voigt, who represented Utah in the Miss USA pageant, resigned on May 6, 2024 — and in her resignation letter, according to NBC News, she described an incident of sexual harassment and a toxic work environment that affected her mental health., she said she was stepping away to protect her “physical and mental well-being.”

In her announcement on Instagram, the 24-year-old Voigt wrote that “in life, I strongly value the importance of making decisions that feel best for you and your mental health. … Sadly, I have made the very tough decision to resign from the title of Miss USA 2023.”People reading Voigt’s lengthy Instagram announcement noticedTwo days after Voigt made her resignation public, UmaSofia Srivastava announced that, after “months of grappling with this decision,” she was resigning as Miss Teen USA.

NBC reported that Voigt also wrote that Rose failed to communicate consistently, and that when she did, she was “often cold and unnecessarily aggressive.” In the letter, according to NBC News, Voigt recounted her recent health struggles. She wrote that she has been diagnosed with anxiety, and is taking two medications daily “to manage the symptoms due to consistently being on edge, worrying about what Laylah will pop up with and choose to harass me about daily.”

 

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