“That was the darkest time, simply sitting within the hospital mattress alone and being like, ‘Why did I do that to myself?'” Skye stated on the All Stars 10 premiere, reflecting on her choice to have a tummy tuck and liposuction in Mexico in 2023.
RuPaul’s Drag Race star DeJa Skye is trying again at a traumatic well being scare.
Throughout Friday’s two-episode Season 10 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, the 34-year-old drag queen detailed present process weight reduction surgical procedure in 2023, recalling how she “nearly died” after struggling extreme issues.
Skye beforehand revealed that she underwent cosmetic surgery in Mexico in late 2023, and had liposuction and a tummy tuck. In keeping with Folks, her procedures resulted in a 60-pound weight reduction. Nonetheless, Skye stated she skilled scary issues throughout her post-surgery restoration, together with struggling blood clots in her lungs and legs, with the ache changing into so extreme she “could not even stroll” at one level.
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“It wasn’t an excellent expertise, if I am being trustworthy,” Skye admitted on Friday’s premiere.
“My physique was like, ‘No.’ It was loopy, like, I legit nearly died,” she continued. “And that was the darkest time, simply sitting within the hospital mattress alone and being like, ‘Why did I do that to myself?'”
Skye — who first appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 in 2022 — opened up about her choice to bear weight reduction surgical procedure, sharing whether or not or not she regrets the procedures now, trying again.
“If I am being 1,000% trustworthy, no person went to me and went, ‘It is advisable to shed pounds.’ I simply received in my head and I over-thunk,” she recalled. “‘Possibly it will assist my profession? Possibly it will assist my drag?’ And in actuality, I had all of it earlier than. It was simply… I nonetheless don’t know why I did it.'”
Skye shared extra ideas in a confessional.
“Do I remorse it? I do,” she admitted. “Clearly, I am thinner, however I nearly died on that desk. And it made me notice that the voices in my head might be my worst f—ing enemy, and I need to do higher transferring ahead.”
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Throughout a dialog along with her fellow contestants Aja, Bosco, Irene the Alien, Olivia Lux, and Phoenix in Episode 2, Skye received candid about her insecurities.
“I simply consistently really feel like I am not adequate. I simply do not know the place it stems from,” she shared. “I do not know why I can not let myself simply be pleased for myself. For some motive, I simply care an excessive amount of what folks assume.”
Whereas talking with RuPaul, Skye suggested others who’re eager about getting a tummy tuck or liposuction to “completely do their analysis” beforehand.
“Go and see a physician and ensure your physique is able to these issues,” she added.
Skye first opened up about her present process cosmetic surgery — and the following “issues” — in an Instagram video in January 2024, calling it the “darkest time of my life.”
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“My physique, I assume, is simply not outfitted for surgical procedure, or possibly [it’s] one thing that I simply did not actually notice. I’ve by no means gone by means of any surgical procedure,” she stated. “It is simply been one factor after the opposite.”
In keeping with Skye, following the surgical procedure in Mexico, she needed to return to the hospital after her pores and skin turned yellow.
“I had to return to the hospital and get three blood transfusions,” she recalled. “I used to be actually yellow. My pores and skin was yellow. I had misplaced numerous blood.”
Skye stated she traveled residence to the US two weeks later, solely to should verify herself into the ER after experiencing ache and shortness of breath. She stated it was found that she had blood clots in her lungs and legs, which had been affecting her means to stroll.
Whereas her ache happily went away, Skye stated she continued to endure extreme unintended effects, together with vomiting for “each two hours” for a “couple of days.”
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“My physique is simply going by means of an insane quantity of trauma,” she stated. “Restoration is a really gradual course of, and I did not take into consideration that … Everybody I speak to is [like,] ‘It will be value it.’ It’s arduous to look to the longer term if you’re in ache, and simply need this to be gone. If I knew it was going to be like this, I might have by no means received the surgical procedure, by no means gotten it.”
Skye additionally opened up about the way it wasn’t her bodily well being that suffered.
“Going by means of it alone was a very massive wrestle,” she admitted. “… Psychological well being is actual. I’ve by no means been depressed in my life, however it’s arduous to remain constructive.”
“It is nothing to chortle at, it is nothing to bat a watch to,” she continued, including that she had “by no means” skilled anxiousness earlier than both. “It is arduous. Proper now, it is extraordinarily tough.”
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