The Miss Universe Group (MUO) has shared an replace on Miss Jamaica contestant Dr. Gabrielle Henry’s well being standing following her tragic fall through the pageant competitors.
“Dr. Henry suffered a critical fall by way of a gap on the stage whereas performing her stroll through the preliminary competitors on November 19, 2025, leading to an intracranial hemorrhage with lack of consciousness, a fracture, facial lacerations and different vital accidents,” the brand new press launch learn.
Following the incident, Henry was reportedly rushed to an intensive care unit in a Bangkok hospital with accidents initially described as non-life-threatening, the place she has been receiving care. Within the weeks following the incident, Dr. Henry’s household has launched statements by way of the official Miss Jamaica Instagram, calling for prayer because the 2025 Miss Universe contestant continues the highway to restoration.
Following MUO’s assertion, Miss Jamaica shared a press release confirming that Dr. Henry will probably be returning to Jamaica, the place she’s going to proceed her care.
“The Miss Universe Jamaica Group is happy to share that Miss Universe Jamaica 2025, Dr. Gabrielle Henry, continues to make encouraging strides in her restoration and is anticipated to be launched from hospital within the coming days,” the assertion learn. “Dr. Henry has expressed her optimism and gratitude throughout this era, noting that she is ‘Eagerly wanting ahead to my return residence and to seeing everybody within the close to future.’”
In accordance with the Miss Universe Group, Henry will probably be “accompanied by a full medical escort crew and will probably be transferred on to the hospital for continued remedy and restoration.” Simply because the group says it has “coated all hospital, medical, and rehabilitation bills in Thailand in addition to the lodging and residing prices for Dr. Henry’s mom and sister,” the group has dedicated to completely funding Dr. Henry’s journey residence in addition to “all future medical bills arising from this incident.”
This replace comes shortly after Melissa Sapini, Miss Haiti, known as out the Miss Universe group’s “gross misconduct,” claiming that the group tried to initially place the blame on Dr. Henry in a dialog with contestants after her fall.
“I don’t know that they dealt with that accurately. The very first thing he mentioned was it’s as a result of she wasn’t paying consideration,” she advised Folks journal. “After he mentioned that, then he was like, ‘In fact, security is our primary precedence’ … But it surely’s like, ‘Are you critical?’ That was actually scary.”
The group responded to that story in its current assertion: “Sure media experiences suggesting that Dr. Henry contributed in any technique to the incident are totally inaccurate. The Miss Universe Group has by no means attributed blame to Dr Henry and confirms that these strategies are unfounded and don’t replicate the details.”
In a separate submit on his Instagram account, MUO president Raul Rocha thanked God for Dr. Henry’s well being earlier than sharing: “From our silence, we prayed for the well being and speedy restoration of Dr. Gabrielle…To all those that, pushed by opportunism and a need for media consideration, fabricated so many merciless and insensitive tales, allow us to proceed to ask God to forgive them and assist them discover inside peace, remodeling that damaging hatred they harbor towards others into acts of kindness.”
