Pushpika De Silva, who won the title of “Mrs. Sri Lanka” on Sunday, said she was injured after her crown was forcefully removed from her head onstage by former winner Caroline Jurie.

The incident was captured on a televised broadcast of the ceremony, which showed De Silva being named the 2020 winner of Mrs. Sri Lanka. Moments later, her crown was taken by Jurie, who won the pageant in 2019, a report in people.com said.

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In a Facebook post shared on Monday, De Silva said she suffered “injuries to my skull” when Jurie “snatched” her crown.

“As I write this, I responsibly say that I am not a divorced woman,” she wrote in a statement translated from Sinhala. “If I am divorced, I challenge them to submit my divorce papers.”

“So, even though that symbolic crown has been snatched from my head, I would like to inform you that I have already taken the necessary legal action for the injustice and insult that has taken place,” De Silva continued, adding that “a real queen is not a woman who snatches another woman’s crown, but a woman who secretly sets the other woman’s crown!” she wrote.

In a video of the ceremony published by the Colombo Gazette, Jurie cites a pageant rule that prevents women who have been divorced from winning the title.

“There is a rule that you have to be married and not divorced, so I am taking my first steps in saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up,” Jurie tells the audience.

She then takes the crown from the winner’s head and places it on runner-up.

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Chandimal Jayasinghe, the national director of Mrs. Sri Lanka World, told the BBC that De Silva’s crown will be returned to her.

“We are disappointed,” he said, adding: “It was a disgrace how Caroline Jurie behaved on the stage and the Mrs. World organization has already begun an investigation on the matter.”