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Carrie Prejean and Keith Lewis leaked e-mail transcript
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by Amy Judd | June 11, 2009 at 11:19 am
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An exchange of e-mails has been leaked between Carrie Prejean, the now ex-Miss California, and Keith Lewis, the executive director of Miss California USA.
The e-mails appear to demonstrate the lack of willingness of Prejean's part to take part in any of the activities expected of the role of Miss California.
The first e-mail, sent Friday May 29th is from Keith Lewis.
Carrie,
The Style Network has asked to schedule a general meeting. Generals in the entertainment field are an opportunity for casting and producing executives to gain a better understanding of a potential talents range and demeanor in order to consider them for future projects. They are done without a specific agenda. I have had great success with my actors who have taken generals and would suggest you give it strong consideration. You never know where it may lead and sometimes they develop entire shows around you. The following days are available to meet with them here in LA. Please let me know as soon as possible if any of them work for you.
Best regards,
Keith Lewis
Carrie replies asking what this is for and Keith again responds with 'see explanation below'.
Ms. Prejan then says to him:
From: cprejeanXXXXSent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:42 AMTo: Keith LewisSubject: Re: Messages
Just as you need details for things so do I. Also nice move trying to make money off of my appearances Also.. Do not try and silence me by saying I do not have a comment about the prop 8 ruling. Maybe you don't. I do
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Keith replies that he has given Carrie all the information and that if she would like to take part, then she can let him know.
Prejan then has this to say:
I expect you to be forwarding me ALL email requests and interview requests to me. I know how you are and its not right if you are selecting things for me. Thanks for your cooperation And fyi I am a presenter of medals at the special olympics in a few weeks for the summer games. So now u know I am doing this and I expect your full support. Also I was asked to fill in for a dj on a local radio show.. Ill be reading from a show biz script monday. I am doing this
From: "Keith Lewis"Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:01:35 -0700To: <cprejeanXXXX>Subject: RE: Messages
Carrie,
As we have discussed, there is proper protocol and we have not waived our rights in any way to your contract. I am happy to try and facilitate the request. Please forward over the information along with the proper contact and we will try and confirm the appearance right away.
Best regards,
Keith Lewis
At this point Prejan seems to get really angry at him.
From: cprejeanXXXXSent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:57 AMTo: Keith LewisSubject: Re: Messages
You do not cooperate with me, and you pick and chose the the things YOU want me to do. That is not happening anymore. Stop speaking for me. I have MY own voice. What are u gonna do fire me for volunteering for the special olympics hahaha ur crazy No I am doing this appearance. You do not need details. Its for the SPECIAL OLYMPICS!!! You just need to know I will be doing it alright
You will not facilitate this appearance
The response is an effort to calm her down:
From: "Keith Lewis"Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:10:25 -0700To: <cprejeanXXXX>Subject: RE: Messages
Carrie,
Although I do not agree with your directive nor is this letter an indication of our intent to waive our contract rights, we do not want to escalate the situation with you. In good faith, we will simply ask that you provide us all of the details so that we can block it in on our master calendar. We would also want to get the contact information should something come up - like you become missing after the event or you are in an accident before the event and need us to reach out for you. It is for your safety and our responsibility.
Best regards,
Keith Lewis
Carrie then responds that she expects him to provide security as per her request.
Thoughts on what took place here?
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at 17:40 on June 11th, 2009
Hey Keith
How does it feel to be a spineless douchebag.....you are a disgraceful human waste with the backbone of a jellyfish..... Loser
at 06:16 on June 12th, 2009
Keith You suck plain and simple !! I also think the New Miss Cali is really ugly like Bowwow..... But she says all the right things very good girl!! (throw her a dog bone)
at 07:35 on June 12th, 2009
As a caveat prior to my remarks, I would say since Ms. Prejean's prior relationship with the officials of the California pageant, before all of the pageant question fallout, hasn't been fully revealed, the entire scope of the reasoning behind Ms. Prejean's apparent antagonistic behavior may not be clear.
But, having said that, I agree with the assessment listed here, Amy :
The e-mails appear to demonstrate the lack of willingness of Prejean's part to take part in any of the activities expected of the role of Miss California.
.... as minimally, Ms. Prejean should be aware that according to contractural obligations for most pageants, the duty of the contestant/pageant winner is to engage in appearances and events that would be set up/promoted by pageant officials.
Her responses seem unpolished, petulant, rude and dismissive, very unlike beauty pageant representative behavior.
at 10:57 on June 13th, 2009
Keith,
Why haven't you disclosed the real reason why Carrie Prejean was fired? You admitted on Greta's show on Fox that you asked Carrie to show up at a movie premier in Hollywood. The movie promoted homosexual marriage! How could you throw Carrie in that awkward position in which she would have been verbally or physically abused by women haters like Perez Hilton?. You set her up to be fired! The american people are not a bunch of morons. Carrie is too smart and courageous for a pageant. I guess the Miss USA pageant is looking for politically correct mindless women who will say what YOU want and giggle.
at 03:33 on June 16th, 2009
While we will never know what happened behind the scenes, I agree with Karen Hatter’s assessment if this exchange is taken in isolation. I did not think Miss Prejean’s comments were particularly worthy. It is a lesson to be careful about what one says in case of leaks.
On Ann’s comment above, I agree such a position would have been awkward and I would have hoped that Carrie had the option to decline. In my experience, a contestant should be given that.