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First <em>RuPaul's Drag Race</em> season 11 eliminee opens up about her iconic cyst


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SOURCE: https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/01/first-rupauls-drag-race-season-11-eliminee-soju/
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Summary

A cystar was born on the first episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11.Though her time in the Werk Room was short, inaugural eliminee Soju introduced an inanimate icon into the Drag Race canon — one bound to join the ranks of Ornacia and Lil’ Poundcake as the show’s most memorable non-living entities: An oozing cyst on her self-described “taint.” Yes, both dreams and pus-filled sacs burst on Thursday’s season premiere, as the 27-year-old Korean queen attempted to garner sympathy in the wake of her lackluster runway lewk by telling the judges she’d recently suffered through the rupture of a painful cyst near a super particular part her pelvic region.Thoroughly disgusted yet earnestly intrigued, the judges put Soju in the bottom two anyway for her shoddy, handmade, bell-shaped gown, and she lost the subsequent lip-sync against fellow competitor Kahanna Montrese.EW caught up with Soju shortly after her elimination to discuss the state of the cyst, her cutting-corners approach to a design challenge, and her commitment to fusing Korean heritage with contemporary drag. Before RuPaul’s Drag Race returns next Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on VH1, read on for our full exit interview with the dearly departed queen.ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We have a lot to talk about, but let’s get the obvious out of the way: Girl, how’s the cyst? At that point you have to say what you have to say because you don’t know if that’s going to be your last time talking to Ru, so I was like, I have to tell them the truth!All iconic inanimate objects on Drag Race have a name, like Lil Poundcake and Ornacia, so did you name the cyst? I’ve seen people putting it on Naomi’s memes from All-Stars 4 and writing “Club Ninety-cyst!” It’s taking on its own life form, so I don’t think I can put a name on it.Well, I was thinking Cystina! There was no explanation for that dress that I made, though, so I wasn’t going to do another explanation of that, so I had to do something else!I feel like Drag Race is the only show where the first queen eliminated has a pressure to live up to the legacy of the last first eliminee. But when I found drag, I kind of found my voice and was like, you know what, people are paying attention to what I’m saying now! Drag helps you put your voice on that platform where people are listening to what you’re saying and watching what you’re doing.How do you feel seeing so many K-Pop acts rising in the U.S. mainstream these days?

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