Jax has broken her silence on the decisions from the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15. Following in the footsteps of last season, the queens competed in a Lip Sync LaLaPaRuZa Smackdown, which culminated in the elimination of one contestant. (There will be spoilers in this article, just FYI).
After eight jaw-dropping rounds, featuring lip-sync tracks from artists such as Celine Dion, Fifth Harmony and Anitta, Jax succumbed to Anetra’s now-iconic duck walk to the beat of CeCe Peniston’s Finally and became the seventh queen to hear RuPaul’s dreaded “sashay away”.
Jax initially faced off against Mistress Isabelle Brooks to Taylor Dayne’s classic Tell It To My Heart, as well as Anetra and Luxx Noir London to The Right Stuff by Vanessa Williams, both of which she controversially lost.
In her exit interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jax revealed that she wasn’t surprised by RuPaul’s decision to save Anetra in their second smackdown “because of track record purposes”. “In my brain I was like, I love Anetra, the bitch deserves to stay here.