Ariadna Gutierrez to Steve Harvey: ‘I never thought of suing you’

Maureen Marie Belmonte

<div><img src='' alt='012016-colombia_main.jpg' width='400' height='290' align='left' border='0'>After putting it through a vote, Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez finally goes face-to-face with Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey on the latter’s talk show, Tuesday evening (US Time). </div><div><br/></div><div>After giving a heartfelt introduction into Ariadna’s humble beginnings, she came to the studio and tightly hugged Steve for a few moments and the latter relentlessly whispered his sincere apology to her.</div><div><br/></div><div><a href='https://push-data.abs-cbn.com/push/archive/features/51156/miss-universe-host-steve-harvey-apologizes-for-human-mistake-on-miss-universe-2015/'>After spending time with her family since the horrendous gaffe that Steve committed during the coronation night</a>,  Ariadna shared that she has now moved on from all of it.</div><div><br/></div><div>“I needed time to be with my family to come down and to think what am I going to say now, what am I going to do now. I already moved on. This is our destiny that we are here,” she said.</div><div><br/></div><div>But she did confess that it took her time to get her head around what happened “because I couldn’t stop thinking that ‘Oh my God it really happened’ and it was like a nightmare and I was like watching the videos and I can’t believe that happened to me.”</div><div><br/></div><div>The gaffe has stirred not only the netizens around the globe but also the Colombians who ended up doing protests, burning effigies and expressing their outright dismay over the incident. </div><div><br/></div><div>Ariadna stressed that she wasn’t really proud about how her countrymen reacted to the incident.</div><div><br/></div><div>“You know Colombians are not like that. But we have to understand that people got angry because they felt like they got robbed of the crown,” she said.</div><div><br/></div><div>She further explained that Colombians were really rooting for a back-to-back win and that even the Latin community felt bad and humiliated about it. </div><div><br/></div><div>“It was so harsh to watch the show and that moment and I was like waving my little flag and I don’t know how to say now but it was like really, really harsh to watch it. I have to apologize for them because we’re not like that,” said Ariadna.</div><div><br/></div><div>What probably worsened the blow of Steve’s gaffe, according to Ariadna, was the fact that she has always rooted for him during their Miss Universe rehearsals.</div><div><br/></div><div>“You have to know that I was like talking great things about you like the whole time during rehearsals. I was like saying to everybody like, ‘oh my God I love Steve Harvey!’ I really did that because we were laughing the whole time,” she shared.</div><div><br/></div><div>Ariadna continued, “We were really nervous about the question and answer and the people are like waiting for us to make mistakes so when you did that so I was like ‘Thank God we have a host like this!’ Then you made a mistake and I was like ‘I am talking good about him.’”</div><div><br/></div><div>Another issue that was finally put to rest during the interview, was the legal issues. Reports had it that Ariadna was planning to sue Steve over his mistake.</div><div><br/></div><div>The Colombian titleholder even jokingly told Steve: “Why? Are you scared? I’m going to take your mansion. You car, your mansion.”</div><div><br/></div><div>When she turned serious, Ariadna clarified that the rumors weren’t true.</div><div><br/></div><div>“No, I never thought of suing you. That’s not who I am,” she said. “But a lot of lawyers wanted me to do that. They only want publicity.”</div><div><br/></div><div>In the end, Steve asked Ariadna what she thought of the way he handled his blunder.</div><div><br/></div><div>“Is this for real? You have to learn how to read cards. It was on the card,” she said.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><iframe width='620' height='420' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/MXQD71I4fH4' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen=''></iframe>

Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez finally meets Steve Harvey face-to-face

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