Audio By Carbonatix
A newly posted video of Miss Kansas calling out her domestic violence abuser from the stage the night she was crowned is whipping up a maelstrom of support on social media.
Alexis Smith, who works overnight shifts as a cardiothoracic intensive care nurse in Wichita, was crowned Miss Kansas on June 8, but posted the video of her on-stage comments just this past week on the platform now known as X.
Her comments resonated with thousands in part because she called out her own abuser from the stage while she said the perpetrator was sitting in the audience.
The video Smith posted on July 16 has been viewed more than 60,000 times and generated a rash of news stories.
“My vision as the next Miss Kansas is to eliminate unhealthy and abusive relationships,” Smith said during the interview portion of the pageant last month.
“Matter of fact, some of you in this audience saw me very emotional because my abuser is here today. But that’s not going to stop me from being on this Miss Kansas stage and from representing as the next Miss Kansas.”

Smith just recently started her reign and began raising concerns about the issue in interviews and social media posts.
Her bold pageant statement against domestic abuse and her courage to speak out is being praised online by dozens of people as her video gets shared again and again.
The beauty queen cares deeply about domestic violence issues because not only was she a victim, but so were many of the other women in her family, she has said.
“My family, every single woman in my family, was impacted by domestic violence,” she said in an interview with Wichita television station KSN.
“At the age of 14, I got in my first relationship, but it was also an abusive relationship that I was in until about 2018, 2019. It’s something that I’m still experiencing and dealing with today.”
Smith said she even moved to Texas for a couple years after she escaped the relationship. She returned to Wichita to study nursing at Newman University.
Latest Stories
-
Government trains over 155,000 youth, funds start-ups nationwide
44 seconds -
Unemployment can’t be solved by government alone – Farouk Aliu Mahama
4 minutes -
Latif Iddrisu vs. IGP trial delayed again as state says police witness is unavailable
7 minutes -
Sekou Nkrumah urges tolerance in Ghana’s homosexuality debate
8 minutes -
Frerol Rural Bank donates phototherapy units to Margret Marquart Hospital, food items to special school
9 minutes -
Assault on journalist: Court sets February 18 to begin trial of NPP sympathiser over attack on Latif Iddrisu
15 minutes -
Prices of cement won’t go up – Trade Minister assures Ghanaians
17 minutes -
Ghana’s mango trade hits new high with 26-tonne road export to Morocco
19 minutes -
Bryan Acheampong accuses NDC government of neglecting cocoa farmers
22 minutes -
Circle fire prompts planned decongestion as Ayawaso East Assembly moves to redevelop enclave
24 minutes -
EXIM Bank boosts financial base with GH¢107m recovery – Trade Minister
26 minutes -
Shock and confusion as Spain struggles for answers after deadly train crash
30 minutes -
Good Samaritan taxi driver struggles for survival after damaging vehicle to apprehend criminals
31 minutes -
The Indian couple who won a $200,000 settlement over ‘food racism’ at US university
32 minutes -
Accra Mayor rallies Police, other security agencies ahead of February 1 decongestion exercise
44 minutes
