She doesn’t know what each new day will bring in terms of her health. But a former Miss Wisconsin, Melissa Young, said she plans to do all she can with the energy she has left to support Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.
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“Until my last breath, I will speak up about this. I want to leave something so great my for my son — to look back and realize that I didn’t have the energy, that my body was failing me, but I still had a voice, and to always stand up for what you know is right. I will always speak up for Mr. Trump until God takes me home,” Young told Sean Hannity on Fox News during his broadcast Friday.
“I will always speak up for Mr. Trump until God takes me home,” said Melissa Young.
Crowned Miss Wisconsin 11 years ago, Young has been terminally ill since the birth of her son, who just turned eight years old. Young competed in the then-Trump-owned Miss USA pageant in 2005, during which she won the “Miss Congeniality” title.
“During my pregnancy I became very ill,” she said in a 2014 interview with thepageantplanet.com. “I couldn’t stand without passing out. Just lifting my head was too much. I begged my doctor to help me over and over. My husband would carry me into his office. I was begging him, saying I’d sleep there on his floor ’til he helped me.”
Young said, “I told him over and over again for months that I think I’m dying. His response was, ‘It’s your first pregnancy. You look great.’ He failed to hear me or even run simple blood work. Three weeks before my due date, I passed out trying to get to the phone. My husband found me and called 911. At the hospital they induced my labor.”
Blood tests showed that her liver and kidneys had shut down. Young said her body went into complete autonomic failure due to the prolonged trauma she was under. The part of the brain that controls heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration, digestion and most vital organs essentially shut down.
“My heart is really struggling. After a number of unsuccessful heart procedures and no chance at getting a new heart because the message is coming from my brain, my heart is now in the condition of an 88-year-old woman,” she said two years ago. On the day she was given last rites in the hospital, Young said she received a handwritten note from Donald Trump — this was long before he was a presidential candidate.
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“It sparked something in me that was — I knew in that moment, ‘I’m not finished.’ Mr. Trump saved my life in so many ways,” said Young during the interview on “Hannity.”
She appeared at a rally in Wisconsin earlier this year, hoping for the opportunity to thank Trump in person; she has shared her experience many times since. Her goal has been to help people understand there is a softer side to Trump than what they typically hear or are told.
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After the smear tactics of Hillary Clinton during the first presidential debate, in which she mentioned a former Miss Universe winner, Young — among others — said she is passionate about speaking out on Trump’s behalf.
“This is ridiculous news right now [the Alicia Machado story]. We’re talking 20 years later. If something hurts you so bad that you wait 20 years and it conveniently comes out at a presidential debate, you didn’t do it 10 years ago, or five years ago — that just seems very opportunistic to me. As soon as I heard that, it seemed very, very planned and it’s a smear campaign,” Young told Hannity.
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“It is so important hear and understand the truth — the true Mr. Trump, what is inside of him. His heart is so big,” she added.
Young said Trump has continued to reach out to her by phone even while on the campaign trail to ask how her son is doing in school, if the doctors are treating her well, if she is getting the care she needs — and what else he can do to help.
“I’m fighting each day and I’m on home care with visiting nurses,” said Young.
“My spirits are good and that’s all that matters. I just physically came out of a procedure having a blood clot removed from my chest, but I’m fighting each day and I’m on home care with visiting nurses, but my spirits are fantastic,” Young told Sean Hannity on Friday.
She feels especially reassured knowing that Trump has her family’s back. While he has never brought it up or used it to his advantage on the campaign trail, he has promised to help ensure her son gets an education and that someone is watching over him.
“All of the things he has done for us were before he announced he was going to run for president. When the claims came out that he was racist — and comments against Mexican Americans — my son is Mexican American and he has treated us with nothing but dignity and respect. He is the greatest man I have ever met,” said Young.
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