Miss World, Italian finalist: “I’m promoted because I’m a lesbian? Ridiculous, go ahead with your head held high”

” I find it absurd that there are people who have gone to see my social profiles to find out what my sexual orientation is and I find it ridiculous that you can think that I have passed the selection of Miss World Italy only because I am a lesbian. I go ahead with my head held high ”. So at Adnkronos Erika Mattina, among the 25 finalists of Miss World, after the rain of social insults in which she is accused of having passed the Miss World Italy selections only because she is a lesbian. To the haters who wonder how a declared homosexual manages to make the selections for Miss World Italy, Erika replies: “I didn’t ask myself whether I am a lesbian or not – she says ironically – a person’s sexuality is a personal matter, you shouldn’t even take this into account. ” ” You see that the haters don’t know anything about how a beauty pageant works – emphasizes the Miss World finalist – here we do a lot of tests and talent to pass the selections, of certainly I was not taken because I am a lesbian – she reiterates – nor would they have discarded me if they had known. I am living this experience with total serenity and I am having a lot of fun. I’m sorry. ” Erika then adds that she is not surprised by the social attacks: “ I could have expected it because I have already received insults for my sexual orientation – she says – but I’m super happy with how I am rattando here and the rest takes a back seat ”. “We are thrilled – says the press office of the beauty contest at Adnkronos – this thing makes us sick. It also seems absurd to talk about it”. (By Alisa Toaff)