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Hello, hello, can you hear me okay? Oh, hello, how are you? Good thanks. How are you? I'm so excited to be here. Oh my god, I've just been cooking on a live vegan show. So forgive me, I've been like in the manic status all day.

It's so close to be. Well, manic status is a perfect vibe to be in for this show. You know, I've heard many of these shows I am obsessed. I've listened to the Tammy Brown interview 150 times. I listen to Lady Bunny 150 times. Yes, I enjoy manic too.

It's fantastic. Well, that's good. So that's the taste of the flavor rather that we're going to get on this episode, which is good. You know, because we're doing audio only I'm actually taping this in a very unorthodox manner for myself, my Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, but I kind of like this. It's a little chilly in LA today. Of course, chilly in LA as compared to England, which is where you are is not entirely reasonable thing to say, I think.

So you're back in America now. Yeah, I've actually been here for since I so I came home March 2020 or yeah, like March 1st, 2020 about a week before the whole shutdown. Yeah, because I was laid up sick thinking that I can't get on a plank. I'll catch COVID only realizing months later. That just because I couldn't just because I still was able to smell and taste didn't mean I didn't have COVID. And then as we learn more about all the different ways that it can affect your body turned out I had COVID because I had all the other.

Lovely symptoms like night sweats, you know, dizziness fatigue all that stuff. I had COVID last year was such a disaster. It was just before my sister was about to get married and my whole family got COVID. Oh, no.

And it just was terrible because I had an eye injury, which is like, I'll be actually do the pork us now. We just started.

Yeah, I was recording the whole thing and then I was going to say in a minute when I did your classic delayed introduction, I was going to find out if make sure that everything we talked about so far was OK to include because you know it's nice when you immediately have a rapport with someone when you can't even see them.

Absolutely. Well, I'm happy to go ahead with anything I've taught nonsense all the time so quick everything you want.

OK, to my god, no, my I had to say, COVID career on social media when I started and I did all of the YouTube thing before it was even possible to do it.

Yeah, I was starting as a child really. And when I began to know as the makeup artist in the go to make a part of school, the drag race girls from the early season.

Yeah, I was supported by Matthew Anderson and my whole thing was doing all this incredible transformative photo real makeup work and in 2000 and oh god, my years get confused now, but one of the years it was the drag race and fast and a party in London.

Yeah, it was what the Vivian one before they did a natural TV show here and at the after show and someone's fight my dream and I actually got quite badly assaulted afterwards.

Oh my god. Yeah, it was terrible. I was with the billburg still I'm absolutely huge fan of and I was trying to speak to a couple of people about some some ridiculous post that were made about me online.

Yeah. And whilst I was in this discussion, so I used to do this ridiculous thing with my go to drink was San Buka in a lemonade and I'd always get like a shot of the white San Buka report in the lemon in what you go cloudy.

And whilst I was getting my shot, someone put something in my lemon and it just completely made black out and I got a social result of being in that state and work off in hospital down a half later with a laceration in my eye.

So my career on social media literally had to stop because I had literal blindness in my left eye.

Oh my god. So it was just extraordinary. So all of my stuff and I had to kind of like we pivot to do like I like to be able to make up or being able to film or traveling.

I was doing all the drag cons when they started. I was working with Queen's doing their makeup magazine. I literally had to stop everything and I had to really pivot and find a new direction to what I wanted to do.

Yeah. But when I have COVID COVID it flared up the eye injury for the first time since 2017. I did pretty much back to almost the 2015 that when I got the COVID it just f's up my vision completely.

I had this like pickaxe feeling it was like if my eyes move without my face physically turning it would be like a pickaxe stock to my eyeballs.

Yeah. My prescription has changed. Wow. So it's everything about and COVID scares me because it's so unpredictable and people have got such varied symptoms from it.

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