“My overeating is still so real for me, and it is an eating disorder.
“I think there’s a huge double standard here.
“My fictional character that I had in my back pocket was Eddie Monsoon fromAbsolutely Fabulous.”
Marina Zarya
I would have tried Janet Jackson and Macy Gray.
I should have gone with Macy Gray, because you really don’t have to understand what she says.
The other one that I had was Sweet Brown.
Those were who I brought.
I just [decided] to do Alyssa, and, yeah, you saw how that worked.”
Velour, perhaps, had the most ambitious plan for aSnatch Gamebit that never made it to air.
“It is the greatest illusion that I’m capable of.
Oddly, me and Valentina didn’t get along on the show.
But, after the show, Valentina and I became pretty great friends.
But there’s nothing wrong with not being nice.
There’s nothing wrong with not being congenial.
“Everybody had gone to the studio on the second day.
This was very early in the process.
It’s like school they’re like, ‘Is everybody here?
Are we good?’
They count heads and they move the group to the new location.
But, for some reason, no one counted me.
They’re setting me up!”
“I don’t think they realized until we got there,” Aja said.
Alexis Michelle didn’t know there were cameras behind the workroom mirrors
“I’m hella naive.
I thought [what you see on TV] were reflection shots in the mirror.”
“It was a tumultuous time.
“I think, if anything, that cattiness is what made us so close at the end.
I really wanted the role that Alexis had,” Aja said.
“I didn’t say anything at first, I was just clicking a pen really, really hard.
That’s when I said, ‘Can I have a smoke break?’
Afterward, once I had my smoke break, I apologized to every single person individually.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race’s ninth season comes to a close this Friday, June 23 at 8 p.m.
