“If you want to know the real tea, I had a producer for RuPaul’s Drag Race call me after the interview aired and guaranteed me that I will never come back and do All Stars.
I was never dumb enough to think that I’d be invited back to All Stars and I was definitely not gunning for it at all, but to openly punish me for being honest about a situation that happened with me after four years of silence is disgusting and shameful.
This narrative about how we Drag Race contestants owe our lives to RuPaul’s Drag Race — that needs to completely change… I’m finally at the place in my life where I’m confident enough to know that I would have been somebody with or without Drag Race…
Drag Race catapults a few of us to some major success, but what about the other drag queens that are on Drag Race who are getting daily death threats, or the ones that completely quit doing drag altogether, or the ones who are reduced to “who?!” by you guys online because they haven’t reached a level of success that you expect…
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On a positive note, I do think that my time on the show, and my experience, opened up an alternative idea of how a drag queen is “supposed to act”, thus allowing future contestants to be as introverted or cerebral as what feels natural to them.” — Pearl, in a YouTube upload responding to the response her Hey Qween interview received.
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QueerTruth
This is pretty hypocritical since you are STILL living off the free press and the Rupaul gravy train. Now it’s just negative press YOU are creating…
And… it’s hard to hear you over your new oversized teeth and lips.
RoughRugger
Way to demonstrate exactly the point he was making.
Crystix
You sound like a Republican going after Libtards, with that mouth, Queer Truth. Its never cute to degrade someone based on their appearance, especially to hit a “negative” point home. In fact it just makes you look like Loser! like the rest of the Forever Trumpers, like Big Time!
Grow the eff up and argue like an adult. Nix that, like a human. sndh
QueerTruth
Crystix RoughRugger,
You’re welcome. My point was to demonstrate that he doesn’t have a point. You can’t be guilty of the same sh*t you are criticizing while doing it at the same time…
This is Hollywood and I’m over the lot of them crying about this and that. Then going to the internet or papers to talk about it more.
odowd4sure
Who?
Greg
Is he still going on about what Ru told him about saying something on camera? What’s the big deal? He may not be dumb enough to think that he would ever be invited back to Drag Race, but he’s dumb enough for something. Who said you owe your life to Drag Race? That’s probably how YOU see it. Of course you are somebody. Everybody is somebody. You would still be a somebody without Drag Race. An unknown somebody, but still a somebody. You said it. What about the others? The ones who quit drag altogether is their choice. What do you want Drag Race to do? Force them to dress in drag? Everybody is a who? You’re not reduced to it. It’s up to you to reach a level of success for yourself so that people know who you are. Nobody is expecting anything from you.
lemoncatpower
Did you actually watch the interview and video? He just told a story and it got blown up, and he’s trying to say for people to calm down and that there are no hard feelings between him and Rupaul. This headline is completely misleading and the blurb they cut out completely takes the emotion out of Pearl’s video.
Mozo83
Aw, I did love me some Pearl, and I don’t know if I buy anyone from Ru’s org. reaching out to anyone to tell them they’ll never appear on the show, but whatever. He said nothing that was so controversial anyway. Fuck, I agree with Ru—save it for the show!!!
Anyway, bring on AS 4!!
queerty02
Lesson: Drag Race is cool. but with some very real caveats. Take it for what it is.
Geeker
I’m sure they’re both huge assholes so it balances out.
cynicalsteve
@QueerTruth – hush little boy. Adults are speaking.
khan72
Do the drag queens owe Ru for their fame/success or does Ru owe them. If not for them Ru would be a rather unpleasant old drag queen with one hit song
LilMesican
Welcome to Hollywood, bitches. You are on a competition/reality show, everything worth saying should be said on camera. If you’re gonna kiss the host’s ass, do it on camera. It makes you look better.
Now, if your dreams are crushed by what someone says to you, you aren’t ready for the adult stage.
Tuck that big boy penis and lip sync for your life!
RomanHans
> “What about … the [drag queens] who are reduced to “who?!” by you guys online because they haven’t reached a level of success that you expect…
Yeah, damn that RuPaul for giving dozens of gay and trans- people amazing careers and worldwide success but not helping everybody. That is so thoughtless.
BeachBear
Ru could have been a bit more gracious and a little less bitchy and just said ‘thank you’ for the compliment.
lemoncatpower
Did you actually watch the interview and video? He just told a story and it got blown up, and he’s trying to say for people to calm down and that there are no hard feelings between him and Rupaul. This headline is completely misleading and the blurb they cut out completely takes the emotion out of Pearl’s video.
Birdbrain1963
Would you please quit putting articles on here about this or that drag queen and their race. I’m sick of the crap. I have never watched the tv show and never will. If I wanted to know more about drag queens I would go see a show.
Thad
Well…VH1 would beg to differ. They’re quite happy with their ratings.
Birdbrain1963
Well ban the show, I’ll be happy they can use the time slot for something else.