Miss USA Apologizes
Tara Conner says she’s sorry and wants to make amends as her tumultuous reign comes to an end. In an interview with Matt Lauer on ‘TODAY’, she said that earlier she met with the 51 young women currently competing for her crown and told them how sorry she is for what she’s done.”I apologized to all of them for everything they had to go through. It was something everyone had to deal with,” she said, referring to the fallout from revelations in December that she had been drinking and doing drugs. She didn’t lose her crown, but she spent the next two months in rehab in Pennsylvania and came out, she told Lauer, a new woman, and a different Miss USA. Her reign will end Friday night when a new beauty queen is crowned Miss USA. When Lauer asked her how the past two months of her reign have been different, she said, ‘They actually had substance. I was actually able to put my Tara Twist onto my title as Miss USA. I gave it my own flavor and I made it my own. Every day I feel more free to fight everything that happened in my past.” Conner said she intends to split her time between Los Angeles and New York. She told Lauer that there is a book she intends to write “in a year and a half, just about my experience as Miss USA and the steps I had to take to get there.” “The experience has brought her closer to her family,” she said, “and given her insight she didn’t have before.”"It’s a job,” she said of being a pageant queen. ‘You don’t take the title of Miss USA to be a celebrity. You take the title of Miss USA to work.”"There are millions of girls who look up to you,” she continued. “That’s one thing that I hated about what I went through was there were so many who looked at me in a different way.” Asked by Lauer what advice she will give to the Miss USA 2007 she will crown Friday night, she said: “Just enjoy it, embrace it and move on because you’re not going to get any sleep.”
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