Ginger Minj opens up on the exact moment her entire view of RuPaul changed forever
The queen claims Ru took her phone away
Ginger Minj has opened up on the exact moment when her entire perceptive of the queen that is RuPaul changed for good. As we know, life hasn’t been easy for the queen since she won All Stars season 10, but at least her respect for Drag Race‘s creator remains.
She shared that, during the filming of AJ and the Queen, one of the actors asked for her name. RuPaul immediately stepped in to say that Ginger was one of his daughters. She also said that she was reading comments and Ru took her phone away and gave it to Raven.
Ginger said: “I was the only queen in that AJ and the Queen episode. That was when my entire opinion or view of Ru changed, because you know, when you film Drag Race, there’s this disconnect. She has to be impartial and sit back and just watch.”
Ginger Minj shared that during the filming of AJ and the Queen, one of the actors asked for her name; RuPaul immediately stepped in to say that she was one of his daughters, Ginger. She also says that she was reading comments and Ru took her phone away and give it to Raven. pic.twitter.com/ZHO3kc6n2f
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She recalled how she was doing a read-through of her notes behind the scenes, when an actor asked for Ginger’s name. “Before I could get it out of my mouth, RuPaul comes up and goes, ‘This is my daughter Ginger, one of my girls. She’s exceptional.'”
Ginger said: “We’re playing Dirty Charades, me, her and Jake Rakowski, this is like drag musical theatre. We’re just sitting there and she’s just kind to me, and invested in what I’m doing. She’d come and give me homework and be like, ‘Now go watch this video from 1973.'”
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For example, one video she asked Ginger to watch was a video of Tina Turner, in which she said they’d “talk about it tomorrow.” She said: “We would just chit-chat about these things. One day I was scrolling through my phone, reading comments, as you shouldn’t.”
When she told Ru she was scrolling comments, she apparently told her, ‘What are you doing? Give me that! What people say about you is not your business.” She then told Ginger she could have her phone back at the end of the day, and gave it to someone else.
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