EXCLUSIVE: Pageant Official Slams Carrie Prejean As Being "Opportunistic"
Nov. 10 2009, Published 5:41 a.m. ET
Miss California pageant executive director Keith Lewis isn't taking Carrie Prejean's accusations in her book lying down. A day after he told RadarOnline.com exclusively that he is considering legal action over her claims, Lewis slams the former beauty queen for being "opportunistic."
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"Carrie's fanciful memory is little more than her trying to propagate her opportunistic agenda," Lewis told RadarOnline.com about Prejean's autobiography Still Standing.
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“I work in pageants and I love a good fairy tale like anyone else. Unfortunately this is not one. This one doesn’t have a message," Lewis told RadarOnline.com on Tuesday. "Carrie’s claims about me in her book are absolutely false, categorically incorrect, derogatory and untrue. She uniformly disparages me. I though this was over, but the fight isn’t finished. By printing her lies I am considering whether to take legal action against her defamatory remarks.”
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On November 3, Prejean and the pageant reached a settlement which many saw as the two sides reaching a truce.
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But clearly Prejean's book is stirring up past resentments. Her book delivers some explosive accusations about the Miss California pageant and Lewis- including the claim that he pressured her into getting a boob job.