Drag Race: Dawn clears up lip-sync smackdown confusion
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Dawn has clarified her actions during last week’s Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown. Ahead of the season 16 finale, the eliminated contestants returned to the competition to duke it out in nine lip-syncs for the title of ‘Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses’ and a cash prize of $50,000.
For a majority of the lip-syncs, the queens were chosen at random and tasked with selecting their opponent, who then had the privilege of deciding the song.
In round one, Dawn made the decision to battle her bestie Amanda Tori Meating, shocking their fellow contestants (and social media) in the process.
After deploying all of their tricks to Danity Kane’s ‘Damaged’, Amanda was selected to advance to the next round. Following the episode, Dawn provided a “full explanation” as to why she chose to compete against her closest sister from the season. “There were a lot of factors at play with this, but essentially I knew I wasn’t going to win, I was really fucking stressed out about embarrassing myself again and wanted it over with!” she tweeted.
