On the seventh episode of The Alec Baldwin Show, Baldwin welcomes RuPaul and the prime minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, to the stage, separately. 6’4″ tall drag queen RuPaul talks about “pushing back against the establishment” — a push-back that “transformed him from the dance floors of New York City clubs to a world famous glamazon.” His hit reality TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race just celebrated its 10th year on air, and now RuPaul is working on a new series, a sitcom on Netflix, “AJ and the Queen.”
RuPaul (who is co-creator, producer, and writer of the show) stars as Ruby Red, “a bigger-than-life but down-on-her-luck drag queen who travels across America from club to club in a rundown 1990’s R/V with her unlikely sidekick AJ, a recently orphaned, tough-talking, scrappy 11-year-old stowaway.”
On The Alec Baldwin Show, RuPaul will also talk about his past which includes his “complex relationship with his father.” RuPaul’s parents divorced when he was seven: his mother raised him and his two sisters in San Diego.
While promoting his memoir, GuRu (SEE LINK ABOVE), RuPaul has been talking more and more about his father who was “shut down,” RuPaul told Oprah (see clip below). “He could not see me. If he could see me, it would have forced him to be in touch with his feelings which were really heavy and really painful,” RuPaul says. It’s one of the most important lessons he’s learned in life: “To let those people who are shut down to let them be.” The Alec Baldwin Show airs Saturdays at 10 pm on ABC.
