Andrea María Nocetti Gómez is a Colombian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Colombia 2000. Nocetti became Miss Colombia, representing Cartagena, in November 2000. Her first television appearance was in 2004, appearing in the

Caracol TV Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District of Belize. It is situated approximately south of Xunantunich, and the town of San Ignacio, and from the Macal River. It rests on the Vaca Platea ...

reality show ''La Granja Tolima'', and on the 2005

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''El pasado no perdona''. In 2007, she played the evil ''Fernanda Sanmiguel de Ferreira'' on the Caracol TV telenovela '' Nuevo rico, nuevo pobre''. In 2009, she appeared in '' Bermúdez'', also as the evil ''Lucía Congote''. Nocetti starred in the 2008 Colombian film ''Ni te cases ni te embarques'', opposite Víctor Hugo Cabrera.

Controversy with David Letterman

In May 2001,

David Letterman David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and auto racing team owner. He hosted late-night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of ''Late N ...

joked about the 'special talent' which Noceti, the then-reigning Miss Colombia, possessed - that she was able to "swallow 50 balloons full of heroin" for the (non-existent) talent competition at

Miss Universe 2001 Miss Universe 2001 was the 50th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, held at the Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez in Bayamón, Puerto Rico on May 11, 2001. At the conclusion of the event, Lara Dutta of India crowned Denise Quiñones of Puer ...

. The remark not only infuriated Nocetti, but also the people of Colombia. Nocetti threatened to sue Letterman but later withdrew the threat after Letterman formally apologized to her in the ''

Late Show with David Letterman ''Late Show with David Letterman'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the ''Late Show'' franchise. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and was produced by Letterman's production com ...

''. Letterman invited her to appear on the show as a gesture of

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."Letterman y Miss Colombia en Paz"
BBC Mundo, 18 May 2001

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