Drag Race star Gia Gunn has opened up for the first time about postponing her transition surgery to compete on the latest season of All Stars.
Speaking to Lemon Podcast, Gunn said, “My surgery was postponed because I knew if I had gotten surgery, I wouldn’t have been able to go on the show.”
Gunn said having the opportunity to be the first transgender woman on the show outweighed her own priorities to have surgery and that she had used the money she saved to buy outfits to compete.
She later started a GoFundMe page to raise $30,000 for her surgery after competing on the show last year.
The decision to return for All Stars was not an easy decision for Gia Gunn, who famously called RuPaul out for his comments on why transgender women weren’t allowed to compete on the franchise.
After apologising for his comments, the show invited Gunn to compete on All Stars, to which she said she was only brought back as a ‘diversity hire’ and for her trans visibility.
However, Gunn had an altercation with RuPaul on the show which did not go to air.
“I was not having the best day that day and I was kind of looking for her to be more supportive in the moment and I just didn’t feel that from her,”
“I thought I was brought on for my visibility, I guess not being acknowledged for simply being trans and now a beautiful woman, was hurtful.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race is now a global franchise and is in several countries including the UK, Chile, Thailand and soon in Canada & Australia.
When asked on whether she would return to the franchise, Gia Gunn said she had no interest in coming back.
“I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to say that she is sold out,” she said.“She doesn’t really care much anymore other than her pay cheque; where she’s gonna stand and what she’s gonna say and that's why the show has lost so much creativity and abundance and all these things that it lacks.”
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