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Pearl says ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ producers banned her from ‘All Stars’

The season seven contestant says the interaction with Ru ‘broke my spirit’

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Season seven “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant Pearl claims the show’s producers banned her from appearing on an “All Stars” season because of a revealing interview she did about RuPaul.

On “Hey Qween,” Pearl says her interaction with Ru “broke my spirit.”

“We were filming a segment, just kind of chatting, bantering together,” Pearl says. “Then the camera went down for a moment, and I turned to RuPaul and said, ā€˜Oh my god, I just wanna say thank you so much, like, itā€™s such an honor to be here, such a pleasure to meet you,ā€™ just giving her everything I ever wanted to say. She turned to me and said, ā€˜Nothing you say matters unless that camera is rolling.ā€™”

“That broke my spirit, and that is the reason why I had one foot in, one foot out the entire time I was on that show. Maybe that was me being petty, maybe that was me thinking it shouldā€™ve been something I never shouldā€™ve expected it to be, but in that moment, it was so heartbreaking because I idolized her, I worshipped her, and I felt like it was so disrespectfulā€¦ so Hollywood, rotted and gross. How could you say that to someone whoā€™s just, like, obsessed with you?” she continued.

Pearl followed up that interview with a video claiming that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers informed her she would not be invited onto an “All Stars” season because of the comments.

ā€œIf you wanna know the real T, I had a producer from ‘RuPaulā€™s Drag Race’ call me after the interview aired and guaranteed me that I would never come back and do ‘All Stars.’ Now, I was never dumb enough to think I would be invited back for ‘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 ‘RuPaulā€™s Drag Race,’ that needs to completely change. Iā€™m very sorry to inform you, but Iā€™m finally at the place in my life where I am confident enough to know that I would have been somebody with or without ‘Drag Race,’ā€ Pearl says.

According to Pearl, other queens told her they had similar experiences with RuPaul.

She also urged her supporters not to send hate to RuPaul and praised her for having a ā€œwealth of knowledge.ā€

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