Jane Don’t Made ‘Drag Race’ History. Then She Let Her Guard Down.
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Season 18's eliminated frontrunner talks about getting tear-gassed in Seattle, crying when she won too much — and why being a robbed queen might be best.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text On the night her elimination aired, Jane Don’t was in Las Vegas. She was performing at a local gay nightclub, Piranha, co-hosted by a queen who didn’t know what was coming. The audience didn’t know either. Jane knew. She’d known for a year. “Watching it back was probably the worst part,” she says now, calling in via Zoom from Seattle, a hoodie tugged down over her forehead, her cat climbing into frame. She’s been home for three days — a rare stretch of stillness in what has become a suddenly very loud life. The consistent odds-on favorite to win this season’s crown, the drag queen from Spokane, Washington, is still very clearly processing her startling elimination in the improv challenge that would prove her undoing. Related Stories TV Does 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Have a Streaming Problem? TV How to Stream 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 18 Online “I’d done the emotional work to process how things played out. But watching it, I just didn’t have a ton of information, because we didn’t see each other’s scenes. I didn’t even see my own scene. So there were a lot of questions about what the judges were even talking about on stage,” she says. That disorientation — performing blind, being judged on something she never got to watch — is at the center of the Jane Don’t story. It is also, she would tell you, completely beside the point. The facts are almost absurd in retrospect. Jane Don’t placed in the top for the first ten consecutive weeks of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18. She won three of those challenges. That was the strongest track record not just of this season but of the entire franchise. No queen in the show’s history had ever done it. She arrived polished, prepared and slightly terrified. She proceeded to dismantle the competition week ...
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