Miss America Cara Mund is elaborating on the The Miss America Organization's leadership, including the claim, was written in August.

With her crown in hand, joining Today's Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie Friday from Atlantic City, Mund revealed the mandatory talking points in the interview.

"There have been three points." "I have had three points in my life. "The first one was that Miss America is relevant." The second one was that Gretchen Carlson kind of started and one of the most important things about Gretchen went to Stanford, I went to Brown. "

Mund says she would like to talk about her volunteer work and higher education.

"There have been all these perspectives that I wanted to do and use my voice, and unfortunately I was given those talking points," she said.

When pressed on whether she believes Carlson should remain at the helm of the organization, she did not call her out by name.

"I think it's a change of heart and I think it's more than one (individual)," she said. "I think it's just the culture in general."

Mund added that she has felt "love and support across the nation" even though the organization has "tough."

"When that letter went public I had been written to my sisters, I was nervous and I was scared," Mund said. "And for the organization to come back and say that it was not true, and that it needs to be handled privately while going public with it on Twitter and all social media. felt the love and support across the nation. "

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