Miss Universe 2024 Victoria Kjær Theilvig faced backlash after a TikTok video showed her lip-syncing to a Jay-Z song that included a racial slur.

Some users discussed whether she began lip-syncing immediately after Jay-Z raps the N-word in the New York-themed track.

Victoria Kjær Theilvig, who won the Miss Universe pageant on Nov. 16, posted a video lip-syncing the lyrics of “Empire State of Mind” by Jay Z, which includes the N-word. She shot the video on top of the Empire State Building in New York. TikTok users subsequently called Theilvig out for lip-syncing the racial slur.

The newly-anointed Miss Universe Kjaer Theilvig has come under fire after the Danish model lip-synced to a racial slur in a social media video.

Miss Universe Victoria Kjær Theilvig under fire for appearing to lip sync racial slur in Jay-Z song lyric. Take a

The winner of Miss Universe 2024 has been criticised for appearing to lip-sync the N-word at the top of the Empire State Building.

The newly crowned Miss Universe was hit with a wave of criticism after she posted a video online that appeared to show her lip-synching a racial slur included in a Jay-Z song over the weekend. Danish model Victoria Kjaer Theilvig sparked the controversy after mouthing lyrics to “Empire State of Mind” that include the n-word during the nearly 20-second TikTok clip filmed on top of the Empire State Building.