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Coulexit: Drag Races Shea Coule breaks silence on 3 drag daughters exit
RuPauls Drag Race All Stars 5 winner Shea Coule has broken her silence on the departure of her three drag daughters: Kenzie Coule, Bambi Banks-Coule, and Khloe Coule, who are now, respectively, named Kenzie the Dragon, Bambi Banks, and Khloe Park.Mont X Change who competed with Shea in the all-winners season RuPauls Drag Race All Stars 7 asked Shea if she wanted to comment on her drag daughters departure from Maison Coule.I want to say this on camera, Mont prefaced. What I know of Shea Coule? Weve been friends for at least, five, six years now. I know you to be a generous, kind, and supportive person. Ive never been your drag daughter. Ive never lived in Chicago. But that is just my perspective on how Ive seen you interact with our other sisters and how Ive seen you be and get on with the world. So to seeing people come out and saying that you are a narcissist, youre doing all these things Thats just not the Shea Coule that I know.Shea started, I have had to learn and be at peace with the fact that you can have relationships with people, you can spend time with them, create memories, and have a very specific experience with them And they can be existing in a completely different reality than the one that youre in.One thing I do want to clear up, and make it perfectly clear: They did not drop the name. The name dropped them, Shea added. For me, it really just got to a point where I felt like the dynamics were just not They werent positive. They werent affirming, you know? It didnt feel safe. It didnt feel lovely. And I really, truly, from the bottom of my heart All I wanted to do was help the girls and be somebody that could be a mentor for them.Shea continued, I didnt have a drag mother. I didnt have somebody in my corner prior to Drag Race. Just, like, you know, pouring into me and helping me to be a better version of myself. And all I ever really wanted for them and from them was to show up and be their best selves and feel safe enough and comfortable enough with me to to know that I really did have their best interests at heart.After pausing for a second, Shea got into what she thinks is the main reason why this Coulexit happened. Im going to say the quiet part out loud, she began. I had a conversation with one of our drag sisters because she was friends with them prior to getting on the show and she was like, You know, they had painted a very specific picture of you to me. And I was like, Oh, really? And shes like, But then I got to know you. You are not what they said. I really do feel that they expected that because they had your name, that they It would be a fast track for them to get on Drag Race.For context, throughout 17 flagship seasons of Drag Race, Kenzie the Dragon, Khloe Park, and Bambi Banks have never been cast on Drag Race.So when it didnt happen for them, they began to resent me, Shea went on in the interview. And I really do think that that is true. I auditioned 5 times; it took me a long time. And I would try to give them advice on how I felt that they could improve on their audition process and things like that. But I dont know where we went left to where what I was trying to provide as critique was viewed as criticism. I was just trying to, you know, help a girl out. Like, Ive been through this. I want you to, you know, do well. I want you to succeed.The All Stars 5 winner reflected, Ultimately, its just like we grew apart. We got to a place where I was just like, I dont think that this is sustainable anymore. I just dont think that it is helpful or good for any of us to be in a situation where, you know, I dont feel comfortable with yall and yall feel comfortable with me.Mont asked, Is it being repair?Oh, it is, yeah, Shea replied. Theres no going back. And heres the thing: I wish them well. Like, I really do. I dont bear any ill will towards them. It was really hurtful to see the things that they were saying about me online. To be called a narcissist, and a bitch in psychosis You know? () And because I do go to therapy, we processed that. We learned. I have set them free to go on and be able to forge their own paths.Watch Shea Coules full episode on Mont Talks, hosted by Mont X Change, below.
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