'It's a Witch Hunt’: Drag Race All Stars Winner Ginger Minj Breaks Silence on Favoritism Backlash

Ginger Minj won RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10, but her win sparked online backlash from fans accusing the show of favoritism.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 champion Ginger Minj has slammed fans and fellow show alumni complaining that she was ‘favoured’ throughout the competition.

Four goes at the crown later, and Ginger Minj has become a Drag Race winner, baby, after coming out on top in the recently concluded All Stars 10.

After reaching the final of season seven, then being eliminated fairly early on All Stars 2, and then reaching the final (again) of All Stars 6, RuPaul bestowed her the crown after beating Jorgeous in one last lipsync.

Ginger was in the top two for all three episodes of her bracket, also winning the season’s post-merge Snatch Game. The glamour toad was then awarded the win for all three of her finale lipsyncs, and subsequently the crown – but not everyone is thrilled.

Throughout the competition, many queens and fans claimed that Ginger was ‘favoured’ by ‘biased’ production and therefore handed an easy route to the crown.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Ginger has slammed those critiques and compared her fan reception to a “witch hunt”.

“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,” she said.

“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.

“There’s never been an instance where I was favoured 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.”

Ginger also added that she now feels like she “can breathe for the first time in 10 years,” after being crowned – but getting there was “by a lot of the fanbase, a witch hunt.”

“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,” she added.

“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.”

For anyone suffering immediate withdrawals, never fear; Drag Race UK vs. the World‘s third season is on the way, and Drag Race Philippines: Slaysian Royale recently confirmed its first ever cast. And the All Stars 11 cast is already kicking about…

The RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 grand finale is streaming now on Paramount+ in the US and WOW Presents Plus internationally.