1/8/2023 0 Comments Pearl drag queen![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If not, I let them be which is usually what they want. On the rare occasions when I’ve met famous people, of course I’m grateful and I generally say something to the effect of “It’s nice to meet you” and if the person wants to continue to talk or if I have something meaningful to say we will continue. ![]() Most people are just starstruck or trying to butter up the celebrity to get something. ![]() Why tell the person it’s an “honor” to meet them? You don’t know them to be able to judge what an honor it is (in most cases). It’s silly and a little embarrassing to gush over a celebrity anyway. ![]() Ru Paul probably considers such off camera interactions a waste of time and as brutal as that is it’s probably part of the reason he’s successful. That says to me that Ru Paul’s relationship to Pearl, the other contestants, possibly the judges and anyone else on the show have no value other than whether they can produce a compelling episode. “Nothing you say matters unless that camera is rolling”. Watch Pearl’s full video about his experiences with trauma below.Assuming the conversation went down the way Pearl said it did, Ru Paul’s response doesn’t surprise me. The fanbase was drawn to me because of my horrible self-esteem, it felt like it was for all the wrong reasons.” When the show aired, I struggled acclimating. “I don’t recognise that person, and I feel very bad for that person. “Today, when I look back at that documented time of my life, I can’t explain or describe to you what watching that kind of version of yourself is like. “My neurosis led me to believe that everyone on set was against me, so the natural thing for me to do was dissociate and withdraw,” he continued. However, when he got onto the show, he couldn’t “take off the self-hating, anti-social glasses” that he saw the world through. He said this was the part of his life where he felt most happy, which led to him applying for the seventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Years later, after bed-hopping and escorting around Chicago, Pearl finally received his cosmetology license and moved to Illinois, where he found a “steady” job and apartment, which then led to a career in drag. I’ve always had very non-traditional ideas about how life is meant to be lived, which caused me to seek out mysterious and odd adventures and eventually I found myself escorting.” “After graduating, I lived with a couple other guys. “I was drinking and using multiple times a week,” he said. When Pearl was in his 20s, he moved out of his mother’s house and pursued a career in hair, but then his drug abuse “escalated”. Pearl further explained that due to the amount of drugs he consumed, weeks would go by where he couldn’t remember what happened, which made him question his “self and worth”. We had a deeply bizarre relationship where he was deeply in love with me and I hated him and the whole world, and I was disassociating with everything that I knew.” “This is the very first time I have ever actually said that out loud. “For the rest of my life, if I ever revisited these memories deep in my subconscious, I always skated around the facts, which are that I was essentially drugged and raped on a regular basis for most of my teen years. “He was a bipolar narcissist with lots of family money and free time on his hands, which mostly we spent together doing very hard drugs,” he revealed. In the 12-minute clip, titled ‘My Past’, Pearl explained that he has felt “lost for a very long time” due to events that occurred during his childhood.įrom a young age, he was acting out and at 14-years-old, he became involved in a “tumultuous relationship” with a mentally unstable man in his 30s. Drag Race finalist Pearl has posted an emotional video in which he opens up about his past and his experiences with “sexual abuse and trauma”.
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