Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez Forgives Steve Harvey for Giving Her a 'Nightmare'
A month after the 2016 Miss Universe competition, Colombia's Ariadna Gutierrez appears to have gotten over the headline-making faux pas committed by Steve Harvey, who had mistakenly announced her as the winner.
"I already forgive you," the 2016 Miss Universe first runner-up told Harvey during an appearance on his show Tuesday, according to TV Line.
"I thank you for forgiveness," the talk show host responded, with tears welling up in his eyes. "I really, really needed that."
"Don't worry, I'm not going take your mansion," Gutierrez also said during the segment, as per Fox News Latino. "Not your car or your mansion. Now you can breathe. I never thought of suing you. That's not me."
"It was like a nightmare," Gutierrez recalled. "I needed time to be with my family...to calm down, to think about what I'm going to say now, [and] what I'm going to do now."
"I always dreamed about being Miss Colombia," she went on. "After the president, comes the Miss. I worked hard for it. Actually, I was more worried about my parents than myself."
The Colombian beauty didn't let Harvey off the hook that easy as she pointed out that he had to "learn how to read cards - because it was on the card."
She was quick to tone things down, though, by musing that the host probably wanted her to win.
The 22-year-old also called Harvey out for his tendency to make mistakes.
"You keep making mistakes," she said. "It's not Arianna, it's Ariadna!"
As per the New York Daily News, Harvey later told her that the producers advised him to call her Ari instead.
Gutierrez went on to reveal that she initially blamed God for the "nightmare." However, she later understood that she had the potential to be "bigger than Miss Universe," and that she is "a role model for young girls."
The Tuesday interview was the first time that Harvey spoke with Gutierrez since the December 2015 pageant. Monday's edition was focused on the reigning Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach, who told him not to "beat yourself up for this anymore."
"Come on, let's move forward. Let's be happy," she added.
The 58-year-old host also revealed that his family had gotten death threats over the flub. He admitted that the error had caused him sleepless nights and kept him from engaging in other interviews, at least not until he finally spoke with both beauty queens.
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