'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' Season 10 Winner Ginger Minj Talks Finally Winning After 10 Years, Facing Criticism She Was Favored to Win & If She'd Return for 'All Winners'
Ginger Minj is dishing on her RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season ten win!
The 40-year-old drag queen was just crowned the winner on Friday (July 19) after winning the Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown. She won a $200,000 prize, along with a one year supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics, and a crown and scepter.
“Since we first met her, Ginger Minj has been the epitome of Drag Race excellence. And now she has the crown to prove it! May her star power continue to light up the world,” RuPaul shared in a statement. “And to her formidable and thrilling competitors, thank you for allowing us to fall even more deeply in love with each and every one of you. Long live the queens, and long live the Tournament of All Stars.”
This mark’s Ginger‘s fourth attempt, following RuPaul’s Drag Race season seven, and All Stars season two and season six.
After her big win, Ginger opened up about finally winning the crown after ten years of trying, coming into the season being favored to win and even she’d return for another All Winners season.
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“I feel like I can breathe for the first time in 10 years. There’s always that unfinished business and you feel proud of what you’ve done, and you immediately start turning it over in your head, there are so many options you didn’t take, and you don’t know which one would’ve been the one to make you win or get you further,” Ginger told EW‘s Joey Nolfi. “I trusted myself for the first time in my life. It played out, it paid off, and if feels like a much more well-fought and well-deserved victory than it would’ve in the past.”
Ginger was asked if the chatter among fans that the competition was in favor of her and if she let it impact her.
“I wish I could say I don’t let it bother me, but I do. Of course I care about what people think, particularly when it’s a project I’ve put all of me into. What made me laugh a little bit and gave me some solace was the fact that I’ve done this competition three previous times, and RuPaul hasn’t had an issue putting me in the bottom, making me lip-sync for my life, and not giving me a crown,” the drag queen said. “There’s never been an instance where I was favored throughout the past. Once I was announced for [All Stars 10], before the first scene of me ever rolled, the chatter started. They built the narrative for themselves. It gave me a bit of peace. All I can do is my best and live in the success of the moment.”
On her future, Ginger would love to return for a second All Winners season, or any time RuPaul calls.
“Absolutely. I’ll show up for anything. I want to come back as a Snatch Game mentor,” Ginger said.
She also revealed that Broadway has literally already come calling!
“Broadway is of course my ultimate goal. I can’t do details, but as soon as the talent show aired, hours after, I had a Broadway producer contact me and we’re trying to work out me going into my own Broadway show. It’ll probably be beginning of next year,” Ginger teased.
“The $200,000 I’m planning on taking care of some of my family’s debt. I’ll use some of it to get a place in L.A. so I can be more present out here,” she continued. “Symbolically, for the crown, I want to be one of the queens that unites people, I want to show you the work that I’ve put into myself is possible for you to do as well. I want to be hopeful for people. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
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