What we are unaware of (But Alan Thicke is in the know) is that she was whacked in the occiput backstage with a vase by another contender, leading to massive inflammation of the shoulders and an altered state of being. This is made even more evident by the fact that she was the contestant from Missouri.
I actually come from Alan Thicke's hometown and it's well known that he's a complete dick. Also I think I watched this when I was younger and he was quite obviously drunk.
It blows my mind that these poor messed-up girls, as part of these grotesque pageants, are expected to play smart for a few minutes... and then pilloried for being airheads when they screw up.
The only beauty pageant I ever attended was a Ms Teen USA runoff at an Army base in Georgia. Talk about some Hunter S Thompson material.