Miss USA 2018 reflects on Cheslie Kryst's suicide: 'Check on your strong friends'
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2018 Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers remembered Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 winner, who died by suicide Sunday.
On Sunday morning, Kryst took her own life by jumping off the 29th floor of the Orion condo building in midtown Manhattan. Sarah Rose Summers crowned Cheslie Kryst as Miss USA in 2019. (Sarah Rose Summers) (Sarah Rose Summers) (Sarah Rose Summers) Miss USA Cheslie Kryst smiles while onstage at the 2019 Miss Universe Pageant at Tyler Perry Studios on Dec. 8, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images) Cheslie Kryst attends the world premiere of "Like a Boss" at the SVA Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Host Steve Harvey reacts to a joke by Miss USA Cheslie Kryst during the Miss Universe pageant at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 8, 2019. (REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage)
Sarah Rose Summers, the winner of the 2018 Miss USA pageant who crowned Kryst the next year, said it was "so beautiful to be able to watch her conquer every day and continue to use her voice for the voiceless."
"Although it can appear like people have it all together, and are achieving great successes and labels and titles and crowns, literally crowns, it doesn't mean that they're not hurting," Summers told Fox News Digital.