{"id":4014,"date":"2024-07-17T02:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ru-pauls-drag-race-star-trixie-mattel-takes-a-step-back\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T02:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:45:45","slug":"ru-pauls-drag-race-star-trixie-mattel-takes-a-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ru-pauls-drag-race-star-trixie-mattel-takes-a-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ru Paul’s Drag Race star Trixie Mattel takes a step back"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By\u00a0Riyah Collins,\u00a0<\/span>BBC Newsbeat<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Trixie Mattel first appeared on the seventh series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race in 2015<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Drag queen Trixie Mattel will be taking a break from work after “struggling” for more than a year.<\/p>\n

Trixie became a world renowned star after first appearing on Ru Paul’s Drag Race in 2015.<\/p>\n

Since then, the queen returned for the All Stars version and as host of the spin-off show The Pit Stop, as well as running a YouTube channel and make-up business. <\/p>\n

Trixie told fans in a video that all the work was “not sustainable” and there would be “a hiatus” for at least three months. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I need a complete reboot,” says Trixie, who uses she\/her pronouns in drag and he\/him when not performing. <\/p>\n

It was a rare video where Trixie, real name Brian Firkus, was out of drag.<\/p>\n

“I feel uncomfortable about telling so much of myself,” Brian says, before opening up about a tough year.<\/p>\n

“Things happened this year that I\u2019m not ready to talk about, it just really beat it out of me and taught me new lows of the human experience.<\/p>\n

“When you feel like you cannot stop crying and you\u2019re so upset and then you have to put on a wig and make people laugh – it is chilling.”<\/p>\n

Brian says he’d been working himself to “death” as Trixie and had become ill from stress.<\/p>\n

It got to a point where he “struggled to enjoy” drag, which “I feel weird complaining about because all my wildest dreams came true”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brian Firkus says his real life outside of Trixie became “squeezed out” over time<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Brian grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has previously shared his experience of growing up in poverty.<\/p>\n

“Growing up poor is traumatising,” he says in the latest video, saying it’s affected his work ethic.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t take a day off because there\u2019s a pay cheque waiting.<\/p>\n

“All I was doing was this. It was all work and money making and then my social life, my family life, my personal life\u2026 twigs. Frail twigs.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trixie often performs alongside Katya Zamolodchikova who is said to be supportive of the hiatus <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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As well as Drag Race, Trixie is well known for working with drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova – the pair often perform together and also have a Netflix series and online show UNHhhh.<\/p>\n

Since 2022 Trixie’s also had her own show on Discovery+, Trixie Motel, which follows the drag queen as she renovates a motel in California. <\/p>\n

Brian told fans: “I love doing all my little jobs” as Trixie but has realised “it\u2019s a good thing to have boundaries”.<\/p>\n

“Being a hard worker is fierce, being a hard worker at the expense of your real life and health is not,” he says.<\/p>\n

“When you have the fortune that I\u2019ve had, you shouldn\u2019t be stupid and abuse it like I have.”<\/p>\n

Brian says he’ll be visiting friends and family and will also be taking a break from social media.<\/p>\n

“This break is so overdue,” he says.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to come back as, maybe not even as a drag queen, who knows?<\/p>\n

“I’m very excited to feel really into drag again and really into performing.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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