Every bomb from Miss America’s Secret

In the story, Mallory and Sam’s former assistant Brent Adams recall falling in love in 2013 when the beauty queen went to Oxford, Miss, to visit the Haskell family.

They didn’t go public until Mallory handed her crown to the next winner, and she said she thought Sam would be happy to hear the news. But when Brent told Sam, she said, “his response was less positive.”

Brent accused Sam of threatening to fire him multiple times if he didn’t stop dating Mallory. (He notes that he didn’t tell Mallory at first about her boss’s reaction because she and Sam still seem to have a close working relationship.)

But, Brent continued, “[Sam]going to say these things, she’s a slut, or like a horrible person, or whatever — I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ It’s about control. He controls everything and everyone else in his life. And if you go against him, you’re out.”

Mallory says she eventually broke up with Brent in 2014 because he continued to work for Sam.

“I made a choice,” she noted. “The choice is that I don’t want to be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t support me.”

Brent says he feels “stuck” working for Sam, worried he’ll never get another job in LA and isn’t sure if quitting will help Mallory. . To this day, he notes, “I still don’t know what Sam’s problem was when we were dating.”

He ended up leaving his job around Christmas time in 2014 because, he recalls, Sam would still be angry when Brent and Mallory continued to text, even though they were no longer together.

E! News has reached out to Haskell for comment on the allegations made in the series but has yet to receive a response.