(CNN) -- Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean wants to set the record straight.



Carrie Prejean says pageant officials wanted her to make appearances for Playboy and a gay movie premiere.



Prejean garnered widespread criticism when she declared her opposition to same-sex marriage in a response to a question posed to her during the Miss USA pageant.



Prejean was allowed to keep her Miss California USA crown in May, despite a controversy over topless photos and missed appearances. However, state pageant Executive Director Keith Lewis took her crown on Wednesday, saying it was a business decision based solely on "contract violations."



Prejean offered her side of the story when she spoke with CNN's Larry King on Friday. She also discussed whether she would sue to reclaim her title and her future plans. The following is an edited version of the interview.



Larry King: You've had a couple of days now, Carrie, to think it all over and it's sunk in. What are your feelings today?



Carrie Prejean: I'm definitely a little bit surprised just by the way that I found out about this. You know, I was called by the media to inform me that I was fired.



King: Are you saying the pageant didn't call you?



Prejean: No. I haven't received any phone calls. In fact, my lawyer found out from the media, as well, before we received any contact. I still have not, to this day, received any contact from Mr. Lewis.



King: Now, since they were so supportive of you at the time and after the Trump announcement, what do you make of the fact that they didn't call you?



Prejean: Well, I think Mr. Trump was definitely in the middle. And I think that, you know, he has only heard one side.



Ultimately, at the end of the day, you have to think about, Are you going to release Mr. Keith Lewis or are you going to release Carrie Prejean? I think that they had to release the beauty queen at the end of the day.



King: How do you respond to (charges from Lewis)?



Prejean: Well, Larry, all I can tell you was this basically comes down to the answer that I gave the night of the pageant. As you can see, Mr. Lewis does not agree with the stance that I took. I think he's very angry. I think he's hurt. He said in a previous statement that he's deeply saddened and hurt that -- what Carrie Prejean believes in -- a marriage is between a man and a woman. Politics and religion have no play in the Miss California family.



My question is, then why was the question asked at the pageant in the first place? If politics has no role in the pageant, why was I given this question?



It was a hidden personal agenda that judge No. 8 asked, and I think that they were not ready for my answer that I gave.



King: Let's say they were upset by your remarks. They didn't like your answer. Why didn't they just tell Donald Trump, we're unhappy and let's pick the runner-up or whatever?



Prejean: He absolutely did. I mean Keith Lewis held a press conference in Los Angeles and didn't invite me to the press conference and, you know, awarded the first runner up as the new ambassador of California. That is just undermining me and undermining his own titleholder from day one.  Watch how e-mails between Prejean, Lewis may have contributed to firing »



As far as the other appearances, I've had some inappropriate appearances that Keith Lewis has asked me to do. And I'm sure you're aware of them already -- one of them being Playboy; another one being a reality show which is being filmed in Costa Rica. So had I said yes to these, I mean, I would have been out of the country.



Again, Playboy, I couldn't believe. I was completely shocked that he would even
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