The next day, she woke up with a hangover and felt paranoid because she didn't know who was at the bar the night before.

The first encounter she had regarding the contest was on the beach, where one of her sorority sisters asked if she had participated in the contest.

When she returned to Gainesville, rumors ran rampant and were exaggerated as time went on. She says riding the bus was awful because she could tell guys were talking about the contest.

"It made me not want to go to class."

Trudy and her friends heard there was a video of the contest. They thought it was just traveling around UF fraternities, until her ex-boyfriend called.

He was just making small talk, when suddenly he asked if she was in Key West for Spring break and if she was in the contest. He said he saw the videotape and it was being sold on national TV.

She later found out several guys she grew up with had seen it as well. When she watched the video, she said it made her sick to her stomach but at least it proved that she did not do some of the obscene things people said she had done.

But the rumors continued. Three of Trudy's five friends were in her sorority as well, and people were saying that they were wearing the sorority letters and screaming the sorority name during the contest. The sorority put the three girls on probation.

"What upset me the most was that I was being judged severely by girls who I thought knew me and cared about me and knew that was out of my character," Trudy says.

Unfortunately this unfolded during finals.

Trudy failed her exams and received a D+ and a couple C’s in her classes.

The next semester, she returned to live in the sorority house, but was told she could not participate in most of the sorority activities as part of her probation.

When she told a sister that she planned to turn in her pin, Trudy was told she had to return everything with the sorority letters, even things her parents bought at initiation. She refused to do that, and just never stepped foot in the house again.

Three years later, Trudy says she feels stupid for getting upset about opinions of girls who didn't know what really happened.

"As far as the contest, I'm finally over it," she says and cautions other girls who are in unfamiliar situations to be careful and not get as drunk as she did. "I would take it back if I could, but I am not going to be miserable."

Story produced by
Elizabeth Marum & Catherine Dempsky