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 an extended listing 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.
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A Former Miss Congeniality Says She ‘Regretted’ Competing On ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
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 option to “keep related,” which led her to share that she “regretted” showing on the present in any respect.
“If I may very well be fully sincere, typically I’ve regretted doing the present as a result of [of] how individuals disgrace me about the whole lot I’ve finished 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.
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Foxx’s ‘Remorse’ Feedback Got here After Referring To One other ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Contestant As A ‘B-tch’
Foxx, who gained the title of Miss Congeniality on Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, first expressed that she now not associates with somebody she defines as a “depressing ignorant b-tch.”
This led some to consider 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.”
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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.
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Foxx Joins Different ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Queens Who Query Their Place In Drag (Or Go away It Altogether)

Foxx joins an ever-growing listing 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 “id” 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:
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“Drag was only a totally different outlet for me to carry out [in]. It blew up, I acquired on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and it took off from there. Even doing All Stars, I wished to be there as a result of the chance and platform [are] superb, however I didn’t need to [do] drag. I used to be going by way of a despair stage at the moment I wished to be on TV entertaining, and I liked 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, could be leaving the drag scene.
“I need to fall off the face of the planet. I do not need to be well-known. I need to fade into obscurity,” she informed a publication again in January.
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A Breakout ‘Drag Race’ Star’s Viral Video Famous How The Present Has ‘F-cked Up’ The Artwork Of Drag

A controversial but fashionable viral video from a Drag Race staple sheds some mild on how the sequence has reworked 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, occurring 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 need to specific themselves in drag, however that is not the drag I do know,” she continued.
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Season 17 Of RuPaul’s Drag Race Is Coming At The Begin Of The New 12 months

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 +.