RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Veronica Green has revealed she’s quit the series two group chat amid a fallout with her co-star A’Whora.
Veronica first appeared on the second series of the BBC Three show alongside the likes of A’Whora, Bimini Bon Boulash, Tayce and eventual winner Lawrence Chaney but was forced to pull out of the competition after testing positive for coronavirus, with RuPaul providing her with an open invitation to return the following series.
But shortly after Veronica returned to our screens for series three, a video of A’Whora branding her “Veronica Mean” and spoiling her early elimination from the show surfaced online.
A’Whora’s comments came as she played a game of Snog, Marry, Kill in the clip, which went viral on Twitter. She said, “I would kill Veronica Mean, because why? Because she’s sh-t, she’s annoying [and] she’s a little c--t backstage. She gets kicked out pretty early on season three, so why not f--k her off again?”
Following her elimination from series three, Veronica has addressed A’Whora’s remarks for the first time and admitted they led her to leave the WhatsApp group of series two queens.
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RuPaul's Drag Race terminology (slider)
1 of 14AFAB
AFAB is an acronym used to refer to drag queens who are assigned female at birth like Victoria Scone, who is the first cisgender female drag performer to appear on any franchise of RuPaul's Drag Race EVER.
2 of 14Beat
To beat your face is to apply your make-up flawlessly
3 of 14Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent
Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent are the four qualities Ru is looking for in the next Drag Race Superstar. It's also an acronym for a VERY rude word that we're definitely not allowed to publish.
4 of 14Cisgender
Sometimes shortened to cis, cisgender is the label given to someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
5 of 14Condragulations
The dragged up version of 'congratulations' and how RuPaul praises the winners of the week.
6 of 14Eleganza extravaganza
A runway category in which the contestants must serve their best, most elegant drag.
7 of 14Glamazon
Another amalgamation of two words - 'glamorous' and 'Amazon' - as well as the name of one of RuPaul's biggest hits, Glamazon refers to a tall, assertive, beautiful, self-confident woman.
8 of 14Lip sync for your life
The queens who find themselves in the bottom two of the week must battle for their place in the competition in a lip sync for their life. The one who impresses Ru the most gets to stay on the show, while the other must leave the competition.
9 of 14Reading
Essentially, reading is critiquing or criticising and it's usually done in a savage or hilarious way. Each season, Ru opens the 'library' and gives the queens the chance to read each other in a mini challenge.
10 of 14Realness
Realness means to look or do some authentically. The queens usually serve realness with their runway looks.
11 of 14Shantay, you stay
Whoever wins the lip sync is told 'Shantay, you stay' by RuPaul. This means that they have kept their place in the competition and live to fight another week.
12 of 14Sashay away
The contestant who loses the lip sync for your life is told to 'Sashay away'. This means they have lost their place in the competition and will be going home.
13 of 14Tea
Tea usually refers to gossip but can also be used to mean someone's truth.
14 of 14Tuck
Although not all queens do this before getting into drag, tucking refers to the act of pulling back your, ahem, junk while dragging up.
Speaking to her season two sister Tia Kofi for Attitude magazine, Veronica said, “A’Whora has reached out to me privately. I ignored it and then left the season two WhatsApp chat.
“The timing’s not right. When I feel ready, I will talk to her and we can have a proper chat about it and talk about it. When it comes to that video, I’m not bothered whether somebody likes me or not.”
She added, “People are free to say whatever they like about me behind my back because people’s opinons of me are none of business, so I don’t actually hold that against her. It’s not nice to listen to when you’re being tagged in it by a million and one people, but she can say that and that’s her right to have that opinion of me. What I had a problem with was the spoiler – she spoiled to the world that I was an early out on the season and that’s a step too far. I just think it was a bit of a low blow.”
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In the wake of the viral video, A’Whora issued a public apology to Veronica on Twitter and insisted she was “deeply sorry” for her remarks. She wrote, “Speaking on the video that surfaced from a show between me & Tayce many months back, I want to apologise publicly to Veronica, my priority before this statement after seeing the video was to apologise to Veronica myself directly first hand.
“In that situation on the video we were asked to play a game of snog, marry, avoid which is something we are asked to do at the mid/end of our shows, each time being different answers and different people, it’s light hearted and a time for us to read our sisters, give gossip or tease the crowd. Nothing in which I said was meant in malice, harm or to try and damage someone’s character.
“I take full ownership and responsibility of what I said and in how the nature of us was perceived I am also not proud of it. In this situation I had gotten drunk with the girls and being playful in my Q&A section, but that is still no excuse. Veronica is someone who I have never had an issue with, someone who is kind, loyal and stands up for what she believes in and for that I have always had huge respect for her!”