In a five-page letter addressed to "Miss America Sisters" and obtained by USA TODAY on Friday, Cara Mund, Miss America 2018, calls out Miss America CEO Regina Hopper and chair Gretchen Carlson for having "silenced me, reduced me, marginalized me, and essentially erased me in my role as Miss America in subtle and not-so-subtle ways on a daily basis." Mund hinted at trouble with the organization earlier this month in an interview with Press of Atlantic City. 

Mund says she was forced to stick to specific talking points, was "not important enough" to do big interviews – those were reserved for Carlson, and was told that it was Mund's fault sponsors dropped the Miss America Organization.