JadeW

Asia O'Hara Explains That Drag Race Butterfly Fail

Asia says that after she opened the first one on her wrist, she knew this wasn't going her way.

"In that moment I knew, okay, it's not going to go the way I planned and that it was probably my last hurrah," she says. "But, I continued to open the other three, thinking the ones on my chest were maybe going to be warmer. It just was not the case, but you know, I wasn't going to just stand there and fold my arms and say I was done. I did my best. And to be quite honest with you, after opening the first one the rest is kind of a blur." 

She also issued an apology on Instagram for the stunt gone wrong. 

"I just want to let everyone know how sad and heartbroken I am that my lip sync performance during the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race turned out," she wrote. "Despite months of research and rehearsing with a professional company, what I hoped would be an amazing and safe display of optimism and a surprise for everyone including production and the network, it did not go as planned. I would like to publicly offer the entire world my deepest apology. It's important that everyone knows that I would never purposely hurt any living being and have the utmost respect for all animals." 

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7prvNpaCnnV6YvK57zZ6urGdpaYVxf5ZomKyhkWK8brTAq5hmnailuaK1zaxkraCRqXqlvsCgZKuZk5p6o8HTrZyrnpyueqetyKU%3D

Larita Shotwell

Update: 2024-08-04