After the scandal that shook the Miss USA Organization to its very core and with only two months to go until Tara Conner's reign is over, here she is, pouring her heart out all over the place, making sure you know just what a despicable person she was and how good she has mended from her wicked ways. At least, that's how Miss USA's confessions tour is looking like...
Tara Conner is fresh out of rehab but she has already begun recovering and healing her soul, by giving a couple of highly mediated television interviews. After all, people should have expected this from the moment Donald Trump ordered her to check herself into a rehabilitation clinic if she still wanted to keep her tiara and title. After the world has seen her fall so low, it was only natural that it also got a chance to see the 'real' Tara.
Before checking into rehab and undergoing the 31-day program, Miss USA claimed high and low that she is not an alcoholic and that all allegations of her doing drugs were, basically, shameless lies. Now that she's clean, she is ready to admit that not only was she an alcoholic and active drug user, but also a manipulative and controlling person, who would have stopped to nothing just to have her way.
Even more, in recent interviews, Tara spoke about her double life, of Miss USA by day and Miss Behaving Badly by night. There are references to underage drinking (actually, she admits that she didn't have one legal drink in her entire life!), various drugs, which she would try without a second thought, a life of clubbing and hiding from her chaperons, the media and her friends. But the most shocking revelation is that which says that all her problems must be stemming from a teenage trauma.
Tara admitted to Matt Lauer that she did, indeed, witness some form of abuse when she was younger, but would not offer more details about it. 'I will not deny that I’ve witnessed some abuse but out of the respect of my family it's something I would like to speak with my family about first. I’ve not discussed with them yet.', she said, adding that she had already confronted the person in question about it and that she was waiting to speak to her family first before making the story public.
However, Tara says that this abuse (sexual or physical) was actually the thing that pushed her to drinking as a way to solve problems. Apparently, alcoholism is something that she has been struggling with for years, ever since she was 14. But, still, there is a lesson in all that: 'I realize that there's something else that I'm very passionate about, which is not only absence from drugs and alcohol, obviously, but the education. There's a need for education about alcoholism and drug addiction.', Tara said, adding that she hoped an 'imperfect' Miss USA can be a far better role model than a 'perfect' one.