{"id":263454,"date":"2018-12-13T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/miss-usa-sarah-rose-summers-apologizes-for-mocking-miss-vietnam-and-miss-cambodia\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:17:47","slug":"miss-usa-sarah-rose-summers-apologizes-for-mocking-miss-vietnam-and-miss-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/miss-usa-sarah-rose-summers-apologizes-for-mocking-miss-vietnam-and-miss-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers Apologizes for Mocking Miss Vietnam and Miss Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.21978021978\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018421\/rs_634x1024-180521192858-634.nebraska-miss-usa-2018-winner.ct.052118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Sarah Rose Summers, Miss Nebraska, Miss USA 2018, winner\" alt=\"Sarah Rose Summers, Miss Nebraska, Miss USA 2018, winner\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">HO\/The Miss Universe Organization<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.796178343949\">\n<p>Miss USA <strong>Sarah Rose Summers<\/strong> has issued an apology\u00a0for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/996170\/miss-usa-sarah-rose-summers-sparks-outrage-after-mocking-miss-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">controversial comments<\/a> about her fellow Miss Universe 2018 contestants.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old contestant has come under fire after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrUCOkHHWNT\/\" target=\"_blank\">footage surfaced online<\/a> showing her mocking\u00a0Miss Cambodia\u00a0<strong>Rern Sinat<\/strong>\u00a0and Miss Vietnam\u00a0<strong>H&#8217;Hen Nie<\/strong>. The videos, reportedly posted to Instagram Live, show Summers talking about her fellow contestants with\u00a0Miss Colombia <strong>Valeria Morales<\/strong> and\u00a0Miss Australia <strong>Francesca Hung<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think of Miss Vietnam Nie?&#8221; Summers, appearing to be reading a question on Instagram Live, asked in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s so cute and she pretends to know so much English and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her and she goes [nods and smiles],&#8221; Summers said, laughing. &#8220;She&#8217;s adorable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Summers went on to repeat the imitation after Morales asked her &#8220;how?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the video, Summers can be heard saying, &#8220;Miss Cambodia is here and doesn&#8217;t speak any English and not a single other person speaks her language. Can you imagine? Francesca said that would be so isolating and I said yes and just confusing all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She then added, &#8220;Poor Cambodia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018421\/rs_1024x759-180521195603-1024.nebraska-miss-usa-2018-winner.ct.052118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Sarah Rose Summers, Miss Nebraska, 2018 Miss USA, winner\" alt=\"Sarah Rose Summers, Miss Nebraska, 2018 Miss USA, winner\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">HO\/The Miss Universe Organization<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.042640186916\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.716121495327\">\n<p>After receiving backlash for her comments, Summers took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrVhYAEhq_8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> to post an apology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;@MissUniverse is an opportunity for women from around the world to learn about each other&#8217;s cultures, life experiences, and views. We all come from different backgrounds and can grow alongside one another,&#8221; the post began. &#8220;In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My life, friendships, and career revolve around me being a compassionate and empathetic woman,&#8221; Summers continued.\u00a0&#8220;I would never intend to hurt another. I am grateful for opportunities to speak with Nat, Miss Cambodia, and H&#8217;Hen, Miss Vietnam, directly about this experience. These are the moments that matter most to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miss Universe 2018 is set to take place on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/996288\/miss-usa-sarah-rose-summers-apologizes-for-mocking-miss-vietnam-and-miss-cambodia?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HO\/The Miss Universe Organization Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers has issued an apology\u00a0for her controversial comments about her fellow Miss Universe 2018 contestants. The 24-year-old contestant has come under fire after footage surfaced online showing her mocking\u00a0Miss Cambodia\u00a0Rern Sinat\u00a0and Miss Vietnam\u00a0H&#8217;Hen Nie. The videos, reportedly posted to Instagram Live, show Summers talking about her fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:00:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}