{"id":597682,"date":"2023-01-29T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=597682"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:54:27","slug":"whatcha-packin-for-drag-race-15-episode-5-amethyst-tells-michelle-visage-she-blacks-out-and-enters-another-world-when-in-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/whatcha-packin-for-drag-race-15-episode-5-amethyst-tells-michelle-visage-she-blacks-out-and-enters-another-world-when-in-drag","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Whatcha Packin&#8217; for &#8216;Drag Race 15&#8217; episode 5: Amethyst tells Michelle Visage she &#8216;blacks out&#8217; and enters &#8216;another world&#8217; when in drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on &#8220; Whatcha Packin &#8217;,&#8221; Michelle Visage interviews the recently eliminated queen and shows us some of the runway looks they didn&#8217;t get the chance to use on the show. Following her episode 5 elimination, Amethyst paints the picture of what it&#8217;s like to go from musical theater kid in Connecticut to working drag queen in New York City.&nbsp;Watch the full episode above via the official RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race channel on YouTube. In her interview with Michelle, Amethyst told the story of how her drag career started in theater, followed by getting into makeup and then channeling that energy in a new persona. As a musical theater kid, Amethyst identifies as a singer first, an actor second and then last as a dancer. She explained that in her youth the theater and makeup experiences must have prepared her family for her sexuality and so she always felt supported by her parents. Michelle asks Amethyst to talk about what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on &#8220;Whatcha Packin&#8217;,&#8221; Michelle Visage interviews the recently eliminated queen and shows us some of the runway looks they didn&#8217;t get the chance to use on the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-fashion","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}