The participant hands the crown after the #MeToo masquerade contest

A beauty contest contestant dropped her crown and her Miss Plymouth County title after a skit in the June 30 Miss Massachusetts competition was mocked by #MeToo's move.

Maude Gorman, who was raped when she was 13, shared a post on Instagram Thursday announcing her resignation.

"While I am grateful for the opportunities @missamerica creates for young women, I am also in internal conflict, as the #metoo movement was mocked on stage at the Miss Massachusetts final competition," she said. she explained. "As a survivor, and advocate for the rights of victims and sexual violence as a whole, I refuse to sit idly by and just give up, instead I will stand up for every individual who has had the courage to To express it, and for anyone who has felt liberated by the #metoo movement, I will not allow anyone to take away that power and release, or to do anything about it. less than what it is: AMAZING. "

A video shared by the Observer shows the humorous skit in which a woman asks a person dressed as God why Miss America was eliminating the jersey competition from bath.

"We may have seen very well the last swimsuit competition on stage, it's very upsetting," says the woman. "And I'm trying to understand, God, why that happened."

"Me too, Amy," he replies, waving a #MeToo sign and laughing at the audience.

Gorman, 24, says CNN she was behind the scenes when the joke took place.

"Nobody saw the skit because we were behind the scenes, but we could all hear it," said the Miss Massachusetts World 2015. "I knew immediately that I had to do something It was going to gnaw at me if I did not … we were all shocked, we said: "Oh my god, I can not believe that it happened." Tuesday, the board of Miss Massachusetts administration apologized for the Facebook joke

"The skit was not in the script and was not authorized by the board of directors" they said, "In the future, we will review all content with future presenters and other participants prior to our show to ensure that offending or potentially offensive content is not allowed. are proud of our competitors and even more proud to be part of an organization that celebrates what makes them truly extra Seminars. "