RuPaul’s Drag Race Star Silky Ganache Calls For Better Contestant Aftercare: ‘Is It Going To Take A Queen To Kill Herself?’

She told of how she’d received death threats and a barrage of negative comments after she won the mini and main challenge in the Snatch Game episode of season 11, which sparked struggles with her mental health. 

“I got so much hate that I went into a depression,” she said. “I got so many death threats saying that I was robbing Nina of her glory. That is what I received, and I speak out on it, and then the response is like, ‘You knew what you signed up for’. 

“No I did not, I did not sign up for someone to threaten my life, I didn’t sign up for any of that.”

Calling for a producer intervention, Silky continued: “I feel like until the producers put their foot down and offer more assistance that this going to continue to happen. Yes we are winning Emmys and we’re doing great things for the LGBTQ community, but at the same time they need to put out a statement saying, ‘This is not acceptable, and if you keep acting in this manner we’re going to cancel the show’, because people do not deserve to be treated this way.

“What is it going to take? Is it going to take a queen to kill herself?” she added.