Dethroned Myanmar beauty queen blasts pageant boss

A dethroned beauty queen from Myanmar said Tuesday she won't return her bejeweled $100,000 crown until pageant organizers apologize for calling her a liar and a thief. May Myat Noe — the 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World winner — told a news conference that she had done nothing wrong to cause her to be dethroned. She denied accepting breast implants, as claimed by David Kim, director of media for the South Korea-based pageant. He said the surgery was provided free of charge, part of efforts to boost the teen into super-stardom. Kim said she was stripped of her title last week because she was dishonest and unappreciative — and that she ran off with her tiara. Noe fought back Tuesday. She said she boarded a plane for Myanmar before learning that she had been dethroned. While she had no interest in keeping the crown, she was not going to give it back without a ‘sorry.’ ‘I'm not even proud of this crown,’ she said after opening a blue box and placing the tiara on the table in front of her. ‘I don't want a crown from an organization with such a bad reputation,' according to AP.