The fact that Malbert asked about her in her interview with Samantha Ballentines in “Dear Hater” was enough for the former contestant to be encouraged to open up to her Instagram followers.
Almost a year has passed since Pitita won the third edition of ‘Drag Race Spain’ and the subsequent tour of the contestants with “Gran Hotel de las Reinas”. However, it is now, following an interview with Samantha Ballentines, a contestant in the second edition, when the former contestant Kelly Roller has decided to explain why she was really absent from the tour in which all her colleagues participated last year.
In the interview with Samantha on the “Dear Hater” podcast, Malbert asked, in reference to Kelly, “how do you see that she hasn’t done the tour?” “Fatal. In fact, I talked to her about it and told her that she had lost a very big opportunity.“Replied the guest, to whom Kelly had told “a series of circumstances about why she didn’t do it and then I found out about another version and then another.” “I think it was a fight of egos on both sides,” The drag queen bet. Likewise, Samantha noted of Kelly that “she wanted to fight for her rights, better conditions for herself and her colleagues. But there is another version that says it was only for her.”
Kelly Roller talks about the ‘Drag Race Spain’ tour in her Instagram stories
“I don’t know, I don’t care,” concluded the former contestant, in an excerpt that Kelly herself shared in her Instagram stories, where she was grateful that her partner said “that I fight for my rights and those of my colleagues, which is totally true.” “. “I fought for everyone’s rights and, when I found myself alone, I fought for my rights and in the end it couldn’t be done either”said the drag performer, who understood “that Samantha has not been able to position herself, because one of the versions is mine and the other is that of the producer, which is precisely the management she has.” “My version, notice that it agrees with reality, which I have never wanted to tell because I also didn’t want it to affect what my teammates did and experienced during their season.“Kelly explained.
“They asked to do things for free”
“It was not a plan for me to tell and break down that contract, which also has a clause by which We couldn’t talk about it, so that no one would find out about all the abusive clauses that had been“said the drag performer, after remembering that her companions “were happy and had accepted” these conditions, so “it was not a plan for me to expose all those things while they were on tour. I did it out of respect for all of them.“. “They know it, those I have spoken to, and I think there is no problem, I hope. And if not, someone tell me,” Kelly continued, before acknowledging that “Today, I wouldn’t mind telling it. because they have already signed everything.”
“Of course I have lost a very cool opportunity! But I have not lost it, it has been stolen from me,” said the drag performer, since “I wanted to live that experience with my companions, I wanted it, it seemed nice to me.” , but I couldn’t accept that garbage. Because it was absolute garbage.“. Likewise, Kelly said about Samantha that “she has the point of view of her season, that they had 90 dates”: “They gave us 20 and on top of that they made us understand that we had to give thanks for having a tour“. “So nothing, someday, if I feel like it, I will tell all the little points that I thought were abusiveor things that they asked us to do for free, several, and that for me were what made me decide not to do this tour,” concluded Kelly, who had only wanted to “clarify the topic of the podcast.”
