Exclusive: Drag Race’s Orion Story says Jorgeous lip-sync was “hard” because of their mutual “crush”
Orion Story has revealed a secret unaired romance with her Drag Race season 14 sister Jorgeous. (The T is piping hot today!) The star, who made herstory this season as the first ever contestant from Michigan, was sent home by the 21-year-old lip-sync assassin on last week’s episode following a fierce showdown to Ava Max’s massive dance number My Head & My Heart.
The queens fell into the bottom after failing to impress the judges in the challenge, which saw the cast make parody PSA’s for a new charity supporting first-eliminated Drag Race queens.
Speaking exclusively with GAY TIMES after her elimination, which caused controversy online, Orion says she went into “autopilot” during the lip-sync because it’s “like fighting for your life, you really let the adrenaline take over”. “It’s pretty invigorating, I think for most girls getting on the show you always think about what your lip-sync songs would be, so to experience it is really cool, honestly,” she adds. “Not the losing part, of course!” Orion admits the lip-sync was “heartbreaking” due to the budding romance between her and Jorgeous which, for some reason, didn’t make the final edit. “The hard part wasn’t the lip-sync itself,” she says. “Her and I at that time started to kind of have a crush on one another so it was pretty heartbreaking.
I told her before the lip-sync that she was probably going to win, but I was still going to fight.” As for the candy bar twist, which sees one eliminated queen return to the competition if they’re in possession of the Willy Wonka-inspired golden ticket, Orion says she “forgot” about it until it was time to unwrap her bar. “I got saved once in the competition, so I was hopeful that maybe luck would be on my side and I’d get another
