Miss USA Laughs About Fall: "Things Happen"

HANOI, Vietnam — Miss USA has learned a simple lesson from her humiliating tumble during the Miss Universe pageant _ the second year in a row the American contestant has taken a spill. "I think I'm going to have to take some walking classes," Crystle Stewart told The Associated Press during a telephone interview Monday, just hours after her mishap was broadcast live across the globe. "I would never have thought in a million years that I would fall down at the Miss Universe pageant _ right after Miss USA fell last year," Stewart said. "I always wondered: My God, if that happened to me, what would I do?" Stewart is taking the episode with equal parts humor and philosophy, determined to move on. "Things happen," said Stewart, 26. "I"m perfectly fine. I'm going to move back to New York and get on with my life." Stewart's fall came as she walked on stage for the evening gown competition. "My dress has beautiful beads on the bottom of it, and I stepped on my gown and they ... (link)