Drag Race star Amethyst had to scramble for a new concept this week after realizing her idea had been done before.
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Drag Race contestant Amethyst was in for a rude awakening as she planned out her impression for the ever-iconic Snatch Game.
Though Amethyst was sent home this week, her impression of Tan Mom became a fan favorite, though it wasn’t enough to keep her from lip syncing.
But it turns out Tan Mom wasn’t her first pick.
“I brought Judy Garland with me,” Amethyst spilled in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“Had I done Judy, can we just imagine the world we would’ve been living in, where Amethyst attempted to come for the Judy Garland Snatch Game after Jinkx Monsoon nailed it perfectly in All Stars? Luckily, I didn’t.”
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Amethyst had quite a few ideas in her back pocket, apparently.
“Another backup was Sarah Paulson, which would’ve been one-note, a lot of jump-scares and stuff like that,” she told EW. “I also brought Julia Fox, but I had no idea what I was going to do with that. I just brought the looks.”
As it turns out, Tan Mom herself was a fan of her impression.
“She tweeted about the show in general, just how great Drag Race is. She said that I did her justice or something,” Amethyst spilled. “The tweets are a little hard to understand because she’s Tan Mom, so after deciphering the tweets for about two hours, I sat there, like, did she like it? I really can’t tell with this verbiage she’s using. I was like, no, she liked it.”
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Unfortunately, when Amethyst was sent to lip sync, she had a hard time being optimistic.
“There was a saying looped in my head over and over, which was Mistress saying, ‘Three strikes and you’re out, girl,’ so that was my mindset,” she recalls. “I’m going to be honest; I didn’t have good intentions going into it. I wasn’t expecting a positive outcome. I went into it wanting to have fun, because it might’ve been my last time on that stage, and it was, and I’m glad that I did what I did.”
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