TRANSCRIPT: Suchata Chuangsri’s winning answer at Miss World 2025 Top 4 Q&A

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Miss World 2025 Suchata Chuangsri from Thailand. Image: Instagram/@ricardo_siviero via @missworld

Before Thailand’s Suchata Chuangsri was crowned the Miss World 2025 titleholder on Saturday, May 31, she and the three continental queens faced a question-and-answer (Q&A) segment meant to test their wit and poise.

The Top 4 contenders were respectively challenged to deliver answers to the questions that tackled leadership amid a world of misinformation; misrepresentation of Miss World’s purpose; their unique experiences in Telangana, India; and the responsibility of shaping how a story is told.

During her Q&A, Suchata best showed grace under pressure and great communication skills among all four finalists — a quality that she gave a sneak peek of when she first joined Miss Universe 2024.

Here’s the full transcript of the pageant’s Q&A segment, and how these queens answered:

Aurélie Joachim from Martinique (America and Caribbean)

Question: In a world of misinformation, how can young leaders like you lead with truth, dignity and gratitude?

Answer: I think as, maybe, a future leader, we have to take our time to understand what the information we have, because right now with all those social media, and all those actualities we can have, we don’t know— and [AI], too—we don’t know if it’s true or not. So we have to take our time, understand each information, and after, believe what our intuition and heart says, to choose the right answer.

Hasset Dereje Admassu from Ethiopia (Africa)

Question: Miss World stands for purpose and character. How do you respond to those who misrepresent what it truly means?

Answer: As Miss World Ethiopia, I have faced a lot of criticism from my country. A lot of people think Miss World is just another pageant, another beauty contest. But it was more than that. There are so many children and mothers behind me, that get so many things from me from standing here. I am the first ever Ethiopian to ever make it this far, and I hold so much pride in it. And I believe, making it here is not only for me or for Ethiopia, but for the mothers and children out there, for the kids out there. It is so much more than pageantry and beauty and anything. It is about purpose. And my purpose is to show you that you can do it.

Maja Klajda from Poland (Europe)

Question: What truth about this experience in Telengana would you share that no headline or rumor could ever explain?

Answer: I consider my greatest success so far is to overcoming my excessive shyness, and now, I am so happy that I can say that I have a really great time connecting with others. I’m talking about this because in Miss World, or my Miss Poland role now, this is one of my favorite thing—that I can meet people constantly, and getting [to] learn and [be] inspired by this. And one of my favorite experiences here in Telangana is the hospitality, because this country, this region…actually became our second home because you remind me of my Polish hospitality too. And you’re always returning our smiles, hearts, everything, so thank you so much.

But I have won the most memorable experience, and this is the experience from the hospital where we were visited. The people there, despite the difficulties of the situation, were so warm and [they gave us] the warmth that we gave them.

And once in Haiti, I met a boy who was always so warm to me. He was talking to me about Polish players from FC Barcelona—one of my previous projects was about that still. So, I think nothing is more important than other people. So that’s why I think hospitality, relationships here in Telengana are the most memorable for me.

Suchata Chuangsri from Thailand (Asia and Oceania)

Question: What has this journey taught you about truth and personal responsibility in shaping how stories are told?

Answer: Being here is the greatest opportunity I could ever have in life. And one thing that I learned being here at the Miss World is the responsibility of how stories [are] perceived. And I think that one big thing that we can do here—me and all the girls, including everyone here in the hall—is being the person who all the of the people in our lives look up to.

Because I always believe that no matter who you are, and no matter how old you are, no matter what title you hold in your life, there is always a person next to you—whether it’s a child, whether it’s an adult, it could even be your own parents that look up to you in a way. And the best way to lead people is to lead with gracefulness in your actions. That is the best thing we can do for the people around us and in our world. /edv