Huge Brother’s Taylor Accuses Ex-Miss USA VP of Sexual Harassment

Huge Brother season 24 winner Taylor Hale got here ahead with allegations that former Miss USA vice chairman Max Sebrechts sexually harassed her the morning after the November 2021 pageant.

“What I’m actually involved about are deeper points that occurred with the present possession of Miss USA,” Hale, 27, mentioned on the Thursday, October 27, episode of the “Actuality Steve” podcast. “I don’t care about allegations of favoritism. I care about allegations of sexual harassment.”

She revealed, “That is the primary time I’m happening the file saying this.”

Hale had been Miss Michigan USA that 12 months however didn’t make it to the High 16 at Miss USA. “[Sebrechts] DMs me on Instagram and says, ‘You probably did job, so happy with you,’” Hale recalled. “He invitations me to the presidential suite. I decline.”

She later bumped into him in her lodge foyer whereas carrying her “massive and heavy” state costume. Hale mentioned Sebrechts, 42, supplied to assist carry the garment to her room, which she accepted.

“There was a protocol in place the place should you have been being escorted to your room, the one who was escorting you’d cease on the elevator financial institution and watch you go down the hallway to your room,” she defined. “He didn’t cease on the elevator financial institution, he continued to enter the room. He positioned the costume within the room within the entry hall, after which he walked all the best way in and proceeded to sit down down, have a dialog with me. None of this felt actually threatening, however it was undoubtedly uncomfortable. Like, he shouldn’t have been lingering.”

Hale alleged that Sebrechts’ inappropriate habits continued to cross the road additional. “Then when he stood up he gave me some very sexually, intimate kinds of hugs. Like, they have been very intimate, fairly sexual,” she mentioned. “He’s whispering in my ear telling me you recognize, I’m so stunning, so beautiful. He kisses the nook of my mouth attempting to play it off prefer it’s my cheek and I simply — I’m simply frozen. I’m not doing something however he’s clearly ready for me to make the subsequent transfer. He does this twice after which lastly I get him to depart the room.”

Sebrechts, who married former Miss USA Crystle Stewart in 2014, is now not with the group. Hale mentioned she didn’t say something earlier resulting from her standing with Miss USA and Sebrechts’ firing.

“So finally, as of early January … he was lastly faraway from the group. I used to be nonetheless a title holder of the group. I used to be nonetheless Miss Michigan USA till Could of that 12 months. So I didn’t need to blow this up. I didn’t need to make the most important deal out of it, however I used to be made conscious that there could have been have been different ladies, whether or not they have been from my 12 months or from different years … What’s extra essential to me is that he’s handled. What’s extra essential to me is that these allegations are taken severely. Frankly, I don’t care about problems with pending potential rigging of a pageant when you’ve gotten somebody who has entry to younger ladies, whether or not they be Miss [USA] contestants or [Miss Teen USA] contestants.”

She added that different ladies has related experiences with the manager. “All of it felt too practiced and comfy. …I didn’t need to imagine it however I knew that there could be extra. And there are extra,” Hale mentioned.

A number of ladies anonymously got here ahead earlier this month with related accusations, many giving screenshots of inappropriate messages allegedly despatched by Sebrechts to the New York Put up.

Miss Universe, the mother or father group of Miss USA, informed The Put up that the group was “made conscious of the allegations in opposition to Max Sebrechts relating to his habits in the direction of 2021 Miss USA contestants” in December.

“Upon studying this, Miss Universe Group performed a evaluation, which resulted in Max being fully faraway from any affiliation with the Miss USA group in January 2022,” the rep added. “5 months after he had been eliminated, in June 2022, Miss Universe Group was made conscious that Max had an extramarital relationship in 2018, wherein graphic textual content messages and pictures have been exchanged, two years earlier than his spouse, Crystle Stewart, was awarded the Miss USA license.”