Cheslie Kryst in 2013 competing for the University of South Carolina track team. Courtesy April Simpkins. ... Cheslie Kryst, Miss North Carolina, in May 2019, after she was crowned Miss USA.

Cheslie Kryst, Miss USA 2019, ... June 14 was the preliminaries for Miss USA in South Carolina. Simpkins was in town to attend and mentioned that Kryst got her start at North Carolina Miss USA.

Cheslie Kryst, Miss North Carolina USA 2019, as she was crowned the new Miss USA by Miss USA 2018, ... attorney and the University of South Carolina track and field athlete — just to name a few.

Two years after losing her daughter, former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins has become a mental health advocate, sharing her daughter’s full story to help others live.

In 2019 Ms. Kryst won the Miss North Carolina USA pageant, going on to represent the state in the Miss USA 2019 competition — and won that, too. She was 28 years old, which made her the oldest ...

Editor’s note: This story contains mentions of mental health and suicide. If you or someone you know needs immediate assistance, help is available. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is ...

Cheslie Kryst’s mother, April Simpkins in Tega Cay, S.C., on July 15, 2022. A beauty queen, an attorney, a TV star whose suicide was a reminder of a troubling uptick in mental health struggles ...

Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst's new memoir, "By the Time You Read This," was released Tuesday. Her mother, April Simpkins, helped finish the memoir after Kryst's death in January 2022.