Pearl slams Drag Race viewers for ‘slowly publicly executing’ her for sending Trixie home
'Somehow I’m 100 per cent at fault'
Pearl has slammed RuPaul’s Drag Race viewers for their threatening behaviour towards her after she won the lip sync against Trixie Mattel in season seven.
She left Katya and Trixie a voice note to play during their podcast, The Bald and the Beautiful, where she revealed how hard she found the viewer backlash towards her.
Pearl sadly recalled that she received harassment and even death threats from RuPaul’s Drag Race viewers after she won the lip sync against Trixie, sending her home.
She said in the voice note: “People don’t understand what it’s like to have won that lip sync and then watch Trixie become the Trixie we know and love today.
“For the last decade, I’ve been slowly publicly executed because of this moment. Somehow I’m 100 per cent at fault.
“And as much as I appreciate the death threats, perhaps someone would have the wherewithal to blame the actual person who chose to send you home.”
She also added that Ginger Minj, who also competed in season seven with her, won a lip sync and yet nobody gives her grief about it.
She explained: “Ginger won another lip sync against you but nobody seems to recall, so I have to say the wrath feels personal.”
Trixie and Katya agreed with Pearl that viewer backlash towards a queen isn’t fair, saying: “When someone you like on Drag Race goes home, it’s not fair to turn to the other drag queen and say ‘f*ck her.'”
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