Now Ginger is facing off against five other queens in Bracket 3 of All Stars Season 10's Tournament of All-Stars. Should she place in the top three of her bracket (a feat that seems likely after winning this week's episode), she'll move on to the semi-finals to face off against eight other queens. This week, in a Wicked-themed sewing challenge, Ginger and Daya Betty triumphed over Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Alyssa Hunter, Acid Betty and Denali.
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Now, over a year after both her physical health crisis and her mental healthy epiphany, Ginger is opening up about her journey to Drag Race once again. Parade chatted with Ginger ahead of Episode 7 airing to discuss her return to the franchise, her love of Wicked and what it was like to meet Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
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Ginger Minj and Daya Betty on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10Paramount+
When you got into the Werk Room and you saw the five Queens you were going to be competing against, what were your initial thoughts? Who were you most worried about? I wasn't worried about anybody but myself. I know it sounds so s–tty to say that. I don't mean it to come across that way. The first three times I competed, I would walk into the room and start sizing everybody else up, immediately thinking about who they are, what they offer, looking at the closets to see what they brought. And I forgot to dot my own "i"s and cross my own "t"s because I was so concerned with everybody else. So this time, I made a promise to myself going in that I would do that airplane thing, where you put on your mask before you assist somebody else. I wanted to make sure that I was presenting myself in the way that I wanted before I even thought about what anybody else was doing.
In this episode, you had to compete in a Wicked-themed sewing challenge. What were your thoughts when that was announced? It was such a double-edged sword for me, because, yay, Wicked! I love Oz. I've been a lifelong Oz fan, lifelong musical theater fan. I've loved Wicked for the last two-and-a-half decades; I love everything about it. But also, I hate sewing. I hate it. It's not that I'm particularly bad at it. It just gives me so much anxiety, so I knew I was going to have to pair up with somebody who could at least match my level of anxiety enough that we could keep each other in check. That's why I was very happy I ended up with Daya [Betty]. I wanted either Daya or Acid [Betty], simply because I knew they worked as chaotically as I do. As good as I am at writing and coming up with stories and thinking about concepts, I know that they're technically proficient with sewing and design. So I figured it would be a match made in heaven if I got either one of them.
Another thing that really pushed me to come back to do All Stars again was wanting to take control of my life and sharing that with the world. So to be able to have [Erivo and Grande] come in after doing something they didn't intend or had no idea about, I wanted to share that with them. I wanted to tell them how special that was for me and how important it was. But, being so neuro-divergent, I have so many thoughts all at one time. I try to be articulate, and I'm trying to get them out. But in order to not miss the opportunity, I just ended up having to word vomit. It just all came out at once, all of these months and months of built-up stress and anxiety and anger and frustration and hurt and illness and joy and everything just burst out of me to the point where I know it probably scared them, because it was scaring me. When it was said and done, and they just looked at me and hugged me and cried with me, it just let me know in that moment that I had made the right decision to come back.
Ginger Minj and Daya Betty on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10Paramount+
If you hadn't won and had an MVQ point to give away this week, who would you have given it to? I truly believe in playing a fair game. I've said all through my All Stars journeys, that I want to be the best. And in order to be the best, you've gotta beat the best. So I don't believe in trying to throw other people under the bus just to get to the end. I probably would have given my MVQ point to Daya simply because she was my most valuable queen that week. She kept me in check. We kept each other going. We were there for each other. We helped each other, and I don't think that I would have made it through the week like I did, especially emotionally without her or Acid really pushing me.
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