Katya details unaired season 7 elimination conversation with RuPaul
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Katya is opening up about her elimination from RuPaul's Drag Race season 7, revealing it was her decision to be eliminated from the competition.
“They didn’t air this, but I told RuPaul to send me home,” Katya shared in a revelatory episode of The Bald and the Beautiful podcast with Trixie Mattel.
The two are currently rewatching and recapping episodes of Season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Katya went on to detail a breakdown she had that led her to the devastating decision.
“I didn’t want to win. I didn’t want to win,” she continued after the episode, which saw Katya eliminated after landing in the bottom two against Kennedy Davenport.
“On the mainstage, after Santino [Rice] literally ripped me a new a*****e [during critiques], I was like … I knew that [they] were going to read me.”
Earlier, she admitted she “just wanted to go home” as she hadn't attended an AA meeting in six weeks, was a year and a half sober, and that she was “unraveling.”
“I was so naive, and I was legitimately struggling, and I had made a comment that ethically [RuPaul’s Drag Race] could not use [on air]. I said: ‘I am freaking out, I haven’t been to a meeting, I am really struggling.’
“So it was basically like: ‘Send me home.’ I felt so embarrassed. She added, “To a fault, I couldn’t fake anything.”
She later explained, asking production not to air the conversation, and affirmed that she was ultimately happy with her decision to be sent home.
This isn't the first time the beloved drag artist has been frank about her ongoing journey to sobriety. In 2024, Katya postponed a tour with Trixie to check into rehab and focus on her recovery.
“There’s a saying for the active alcoholic or drug addict that the trajectory of the life course has three possible outcomes: A) jail, B) institutions, or C) death,” Katya said in an emotional post during that time.
"Unfortunately, I find myself squarely and firmly and quite uncomfortably in the B camp right now."
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