Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado surrenders in war of words with Donald Trump
The Venezuelan beauty has vowed not to give any more interviews 'on the way Trump treated her'
THE former Miss Universe who claims Donald Trump 'fat-shamed' her and called her 'Miss Piggy' says she's given up battling the outspoken billionaire.
Alicia Machado has vowed not to give any more interviews on the way Trump treated her in the run up to Presidential election day - after her reputation was rocked by allegations about her seedy past.
"We will not be discussing the Trump subject any further," an email from the Venezuelan beauty queen's reps at Anderson Public Relations Group told the .
A statement from Machado that accompanied the message blasted Trump's campaign for "attempting to revive slanders and false accusations about my life, in order to humiliate, intimidate, and unbalance me.
"These attacks are cheap lies with bad intentions," she said.
Her pledge to stay quiet follows a barrage of self-promotion after her name first hit the headlines last week.
In the first presidential debate, Clinton referred to allegations of comments about Machado made by Trump in 1996, when he owned the Miss Universe contest.
She said: “One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest.
“He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them, and he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy,’ then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping’ because she was Latina.”
Within hours of Hillary Clinton putting Machado's history with Trump in the spotlight, the 39-year-old's bizarre and tawdry past was soon emerged.
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Video from the Spanish reality TV show The Farm showed Machado seemingly having sex with another contestant while she was engaged to baseball star Bobby Abreu.
It was further revealed that she was listed as an accomplice in an attempted murder in 1998, two years after she carried the Miss Universe crown.
Machado allegedly drove the getaway car and threatened to kill the judge overseeing the case. Her then-boyfriend was indicted in the criminal case.
Trump last week accused Machado of making a 'sex tape' as he lashed out at Clinton in a 3am Twitter rant.
That was a reference to a 2005 reality TV show modelled after 'Big Brother,' in which Machado was filmed having intercourse on camera with a fellow contestant.
In the 2005 episode of La Granja (the Farm) she allegedly had sex in front of the cameras with Spanish TV host Fernando Acaso.
Machado was engaged to Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Abreu at the time who called off the wedding after clips of the show appeared online.
The broadcast showed Acaso on top of her, with Machado whispering in Spanish about his manhood.
"Oh your d***, my love, what a tasty d***! Your d*** is divine,"she moans while they go at it.