Pepper-sprayed Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant Ingrid Marie Rivera showed up on the Today show this morning for a sitdown with Meredith Vieira about pageantry, haters and toxic tiaras. During the six-minute-long interview, Rivera refuted the new accusations that she pepper-sprayed herself in order to garner sympathy/press/what have you, and says that she was shocked that it happened to her because "I'm not that kind of person". (Whatever that means). Clip above.

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