Briar Blush made an unforgettable impression on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 18. Known for her confidence and a unique perspective on drag, the Boston-based queen faced a dramatic episode filled with cast tension, a vulnerable moment of honesty and a scary fainting spell that ended in her time in the competition being cut short.
But Briar isn’t letting the outcome define her. Instead, she’s focused on how far she’s come, as well as the direction she’s taking her drag career moving forward.
On workroom tension after winning the lipsync againt Mandy Mango
Coming back into the workroom after surviving the lipsync in the previous episode, Briar was hit with unexpected friction from her fellow queens, and according to her, it caught her off guard.
“I would say that I was confused. I would say that I was really confused because the interaction that you saw with me and Mia [Starr] in the workroom mirror that they showed was our only negative interaction at that point,” she said. “And we just hadn’t talked until we were back on the couches.”
“And so when she started, I was confused. And me and Athena [Dion] had already talked, and we were like, ‘Oh, we’re good now,’ way earlier. And so when that happened, I was like, ‘What? Huh?’”
Even then, Briar said she wasn’t interested in dragging the moment out. “And I honestly, I don’t want to have any malice with my sisters. So really in that moment, I wasn’t fighting them because I didn’t want to fight. I was like, ‘Aw, what’s going on?’ You know?”
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