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Suzie Toot Has Drag Race Regrets
“Looking back, I understood the critiques, but it’s stuff that I just could not even begin to accept while I was there.”
But then she flopped during Snatch Game, turning in an obtuse and unfunny performance as Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors, and suddenly she was not so big a threat, despite the other queens’ insistence to the contrary: All season long, Lexi Love obsessed over how well Suzie was doing, and at the top seven, four separate queens told RuPaul that Suzie must go home because she was their biggest competition. When I started winning pageants and booking big gigs, people were like, “Hey, holy shit, Suzie Toot is on to something that we don’t even understand.” That experience growing up in Fort Lauderdale really prepared me to be around a bunch of queens who did not understand what I was going for. At the time, I had put an unbelievable amount of pressure on myself to do well as Ellen Greene in the Snatch Game, which is the worst way that you can prepare for an improv-comedy challenge.
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