As Miss North Carolina USA , Miller-Keyes revealed that she was a survivor of sexual assault and adopted sexual assault awareness as her primary platform of advocacy during the Miss USA competition . During season 23 of '' The Bachelor '' , Miller-Keyes went into detail regarding her assault , revealing that it occurred during her sophomore year of college when she and some friends were drugged and raped by a group of boys they were friends with . Miller-Keyes also had indecent pictures of her taken while she was incapacitated . After learning of her assault , Miller-Keyes reached out to hospitals for a rape kit , and was turned away by the first hospital , while the second hospital 's investigation came back inconclusive due to the time that had passed since the assault . Of her assaulters , one was expelled from school while the others were left unpunished
Miss USA
Miss USA 2018
Caelynn Miller-Keyes