Nova Stevens, who will represent Canada in the upcoming Miss Universe competition fire back and exposed racist comments she have received from the pageant fans.
On her lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday, Nova, shared a photo of herself alongside a screen shot of negative comments written in Tagalog with a translations.
"Here we go again. I’ve been receiving this picture in my inbox a lot lately," she said.
"With all that has been going on in the world ‘black lives matter’ ‘Asians are human’ you would think this would bring us together," she explained
"Instead, looks like some people are still stuck in their ignorant and racist ideologies. I’m really disappointed with some Pageant fans from certain countries. Your hate takes away the fun and enjoyment from this once in a lifetime experience. Is it really that difficult to spread love instead of hate?" She added.
She noted that "beauty is not exclusive to one specific group of people" because "beauty can be seen in different shapes, shades and sizes."
Meanwhile, in her separate post on Wednesday, the beauty queen apologized to her Filipino fans for her previous post in dealing with haters.
"My post wasn’t intended to incite more hate; rather shed light on the toxicity that sometimes hails from fans (from all over the world). The last thing I want is for anyone to experience hate so please don’t bash or generalize the Filipino fans; not all are racist. Some of my closest friends who also happen to be some of the nicest people I know are Filipino," she said.
"In every group of people; whether black, white, green, yellow, red, purple, there are always a few bad apples," she added.
She ended her post to encourage everyone to spread the love and make the Miss Universe pageant 2021 fun for all.
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