It has been very hard for me, truly, it has been a great shock, because it is a dream I fought for. ... I have always dreamed of this, of being Miss Universe. ... It was very humiliating for me.

Ariadna Gutierrez

I was disconnected. I haven't received phone calls from almost anyone. Very few people have communicated with me, that's because I had to grieve for what happened.

Ariadna Gutierrez

I thought it was a joke, in the rehearsals, he did things like that.

Ariadna Gutierrez

There are a thousand ways to do things, they could have done it, I don't know, the next day in a press conference or a press release. ... They did not do things the right way.

Ariadna Gutierrez

I managed to make history.

Ariadna Gutierrez