One other ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Star ‘Regrets’ Being On The Present

A Season 15 contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race is the newest to specific “remorse” over showing on the favored actuality competitors sequence.

The contestant in query is now the newest in a protracted checklist of drag queens – largely Black or of different marginalized racial communities – who’ve shared equally destructive experiences of collaborating within the long-running program, which is at present gearing up for its seventeenth cycle.

In a sequence of posts on X (previously Twitter) on November 27, Malaysia Babydoll Foxx, a RuPaul’s Drag Race fan favourite, responded to those that felt her public callout of one other previous contender was a technique to “keep related,” which led her to share that she “regretted” showing on the present in any respect.

“If I could possibly be fully trustworthy, typically I’ve regretted doing the present as a result of [of] how individuals disgrace me about every little thing I’ve carried out on it,” Foxx said.

“I’m continually reminded of my failures, and by no means the triumphs of coming from the place I’m from, [or those I inspired] who’ve by no means seen themselves [on Drag Race],” she continued.

Foxx got here in eighth place within the season and by no means gained any challenges. Nonetheless, she was voted by her fellow Drag Race contestants as Miss Congeniality within the Grand Finale.

Foxx, who gained the title of Miss Congeniality on Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, first expressed that she not associates with somebody she defines as a “depressing ignorant b-tch.”

This led some to imagine that the goal of Foxx’s ire was Mistress Isabelle Brooks, one other Season 15 character whose initials sync as much as the phrase Foxx used.

“To these of you considering my [posts] are to remain related as a result of a brand new season of Drag Race is coming. Please cease,” she wrote, as reported by PinkNews.

“I’ve been at my lowest and the very last thing I would like is consideration from individuals who have actually tormented me,” she continued. “I’ve expressed [this] off the apps, too.”

Claiming she willingly selected “peace” over “fame and relevance” following her Drag Race flip, Foxx then opened up on how she’s typically reminded of how poorly she did on the present.

Foxx joins an ever-growing checklist of previous RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants who both specific woe after collaborating within the franchise or select to go away the artwork of drag behind completely.

The latest is LaLa Ri, one other fan-favorite who competed in Season 13 and the eighth cycle of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. Although they’ve publicly expressed no remorse concerning the sequence, they did converse of a depressive interval over their “identification” that made them rethink their place as an entertainer.

“I by no means supposed to have a full-fledged drag profession,” LaLa shared in a latest interview, including:

“Drag was only a completely different outlet for me to carry out [in]. It blew up, I received on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and it took off from there. Even doing All Stars, I needed to be there as a result of the chance and platform [are] wonderful, however I didn’t wish to [do] drag. I used to be going by means of a despair stage at the moment I needed to be on TV entertaining, and I cherished the moments I used to be out of drag, however the moments in drag, I used to be over it, fully.”

Former queens Vivienne Pinay and Honey Mahogany, who competed in Season 5 and left the competitors within the sequence’ first-ever “double sashay” (elimination), have additionally departed the drag scene. Mahogany is now a political activist in San Francisco, whereas Pinay has appeared to drop off the map altogether.

One other Season 15 competitor, Princess Poppy, shocked followers when – following a two-month social media break whereas her season was airing – introduced that, she, too, can be leaving the drag scene.

“I wish to fall off the face of the planet. I do not wish to be well-known. I wish to fade into obscurity,” she informed a publication again in January.

A controversial but fashionable viral video from a Drag Race staple sheds some gentle on how the sequence has remodeled the artwork of drag and made it tough for some to prosper of their careers.

Jasmine Masters, who appeared throughout Season 7 and once more on All Stars 4, claimed in a 2016 YouTube rant that the present typically caters to queens who focus extra on the phantasm of magnificence than the general expertise it takes to construct a profession.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race has f-cked up drag. Backside line – reduce and dry,” Masters believes, happening to say:

“Now b-tches are sporting panties and bras on stage and considering they’re f-cking sickening, and [the] crowd thinks they’re sickening as a result of they have been on the present.”

“I am not knocking how individuals wish to specific themselves in drag, however that is not the drag I do know,” she continued.

In response to a latest promo teaser, Season 17 of RuPaul’s Drag Race will start airing in January 2025 on MTV.

Previous seasons can at present be streamed on Paramount +.