Trump May Fire Disgraced Miss USA Tara Conner

Miss USA Tara Conner grew up in a three-stoplight town in rural Kentucky where alcohol sales are banned and teens spend Saturday night in the Kmart parking lot.

After winning the crown in April, the 20-year-old former cheerleader rocketed into Manhattan's nightclub scene where friends say she succumbed to the temptations of drinking, drugs and casual hookups.

Pageant boss Donald Trump could strip her of her title as early as Tuesday because of what he called her "personal problems and difficulties."

Conner hails from Russell Springs, a rural and religious town in south-central Kentucky with fewer than 2,500 residents.

She started young in beauty pageants: She was third runnerup in the Casey County Apple Festival when she was 4, and was voted Young Miss Russell County when she was 13.

She graduated from Russell County High in 2004, waitressed at a steakhouse and took classes at the local community college.

She also drank and partied like other teens in town.

Yet even as her hometown savored the honor, she left it far behind. The pageant moved her into a swank Trump Place apartment and flew her around the country for a whirlwind of Miss USA appearances.

She barely saw her parents, relatives and friends - and broke up with her fiancé.

In New York, she quickly picked up a reputation for drinking heavily, snorting cocaine and playing around with different men.

Conner moved out of the Trump Place apartment late last week and was said to be spending time with her mom waiting sitting by the telephone, awaiting the words, "YOU'RE FIRED," from Trump.