Vanessa Williams
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
okay, let's make sure you got the training.
Let's do this and get the proper team so you can kind of shine.
No, I resigned.
No, no, but they threatened to revoke it, but I resigned.
Some photos of me were leaked to a magazine, which they were going to put out in September.
I got a tip from a reporter saying, I heard that you're going to be on the cover of this magazine, and would you like to make a comment?
And I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
I called my lawyer.
Media said, I don't know what's going on, but something's going down.
I investigated and found out this particular photographer that I had worked with as a makeup artist slash he ran a local and a local meaning my hometown, a local model registry, which should have been the first clue because it wasn't a model agency.
Anyway, shady.
trusting.
I had done some photos with him that there was no release, never supposed to be seen with anybody.
Anyway, he had been working and trying to sell these photos as soon as I became famous behind the scenes for as soon as I became famous.
Ended up selling to this magazine.
They wanted, so the pageant said, you know, you were going to, you're going to lose your title in a particular amount of time.
And I, at that point said, you know, people, and then people were saying, fight for the title.
You've done everything you, you've been fine, Miss America, blah, blah, blah.
And again, I'm working on it.
I've got a documentary coming out on this.