Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado on Tuesday night brushed off accusations that she drove a getaway car from a murder scene and threatened to kill a judge.

When given a chance to deny them, she shockingly chose not to, and instead, said, “that happened 20 years ago.”

Machado appeared on CNN:

With a wave of her hand, Machado, who is now a Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate, said, “He can say whatever he wants to say. I don’t care.

“You know, I have my past. Of course, everybody has. Everybody has a past. I’m not saint girl.

“But that is not the point now,” she said.

But it’s become the point after Clinton dropped Machado’s name during Monday’s debate and attempted to weaponize it against Donald Trump.

The Daily Mail reported:

In January 1998, the Associated Press revealed that Machado had been accused in court documents in Cadacras of driving her boyfriend from the scene of a shooting.

She was ordered to testify in court, with her lawyer telling a local newspaper that she was in fact filming a soap opera at the time.

The murder, it was alleged, was the culmination of a bitter feud. …

The attorney also alleged that witnesses saw Machado drive her boyfriend away from the scene of the crime, and that her boyfriend had snatched the dead woman’s 11-month-old son as well.

But her lawyer, Ricardo Koesling, was quoted in a local newspaper calling the claims ‘a huge stupidity’ and saying: ‘She wasn’t even present at the site of the incident.’

Machado was not indicted when the judge in the case said there was insufficient evidence that she was at the scene of the alleged crime.

There was clearly confusion as in contrast to her lawyer’s initial claim she was filming, Machado later claimed that she was at home sick. The judge said there was also insufficient evidence to prove that claim.

A judge indicted her boyfriend, described by Reuters as ‘a 26-year-old graphic designer with movie star good looks’ – and police mounted a series of raids to find him, to no avail.

It was not the end of the affair.

A month later the judge went on national television to allege that Machado had threatened to kill him if he indicted Sbert.

Judge Maximiliano Fuenmayor said on national television that she threatened ‘to ruin my career as a judge and … kill me’, the Associated Press reported.

When asked about the allegations by Anderson Cooper, Machado responded, “He can use whatever he wants to use. The point is, that happened 20 years ago.”