To the public, Zoe Sozo Bethel was a beautiful Miss Alabama, a model and budding conservative commentator who mysteriously “fell” off a third-story balcony just before midnight in Miami on Feb. 10 and died of her injuries a week later.Those who know her say her death was especially tragic because Bethel, 27, was overcoming a tortured past in a troubled family that she tried to keep secret. She was the daughter of two fire-and-brimstone preachers, Orlando and Glynis, who called themselves “The Apostle” and “The Prophetess.” They took their kids all over the South, having them participate in inflammatory homophobic rhetoric and wear T-shirts reading “God Hates Gays” or “God Hates Whores,” sources said.“Zoe tried to remake herself so no one would know she was the kid from Baldwin County (Alabama) who yelled ‘God hates you’ to people,” her sister Kezia Bethel, 26, told The Post. “She was able to keep it a secret on a national level. No one knew who she really was unless she came back to Baldwin County.”
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