(New York) The Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants expressed their deep emotion on Monday after the suicide Sunday in New York of Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, a 30-year-old lawyer who had often spoken about stress and health issues mental.
Posted at 12:40 p.m.
In a statement sent to AFP, the Miss Universe and Miss USA organizations said they were “devastated to learn of the disappearance of Cheslie Kryst (who) was the most brilliant, warm and kind person we have had the privilege of knowing. “.
A police source in New York confirmed on Sunday evening that the body of Cheslie Kryst had been found around 7 a.m. at the foot of a skyscraper on 42and Manhattan street, as revealed by the New York Post which made its front page on Monday.
“According to the first elements of the investigation, she jumped from a high point” and “it seems that it was a suicide,” said this police source to AFP.
According to the New York Postthe young woman jumped from a terrace at 29and floor of the Orion Condominium tower, where she resided.
A few hours before her death, Cheslie Kryst had posted a photo of her on Instagram captioned “May this day bring you rest and peace”.
A celebrity television channel, Extra, for which Cheslie Kryst had worked since 2019, also “heartbrokenly” announced her death on Sunday.
The channel broadcast a message from the family that their missing “embodied love and served others, both through her work as a social justice lawyer, as Miss USA and host on Extra”.
Like all the American press, the New York Times on Monday traced the journey of this mixed-race woman born in 1991 in Michigan, who grew up in North Carolina before a law degree.
Cheslie Kryst’s mother was crowned Miss North Carolina in 2002, before her daughter also hit the catwalks and was crowned Miss North Carolina and Miss USA in 2019, aged 28, the oldest contestant to win the pageant .
The same year, she arrived 10and of the Miss Universe pageant.
Although she does not seem to have left an explanation before her suicide, the New York Times has republished several of her texts and statements since 2019 where she addressed issues of mental health, work stress, pressure, disconnection or aging.
“Being 30 brutally reminds me that time is running out in the eyes of society and it’s maddening,” she wrote in March in the magazine. pace.
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