Hedda Lettuce on Madonna, Kim Cattrall & Surviving Drag

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Tv & Film

4.5 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jess welcomes beloved NYC drag legend HEDDA LETTUCE, boots on the ground in Puerto Vallarta after the recent cartel attack. Topics — Playing Kim Cattrall's ex-boyfriend on Sex and the City on stage with Madonna at the 1999 MTV VMAs, neighbors with Quentin Crisp, and cult movies at Chelsea Clearview Cinema. Plus — Shirley Q. Liquor, Heather Locklear at Cherry's on the Bay, and Hedda's journey from rock bottom in Provincetown to reigning on Fire Island—and now wintering in Puerto Vallarta.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with beloved Manhattan Fire Island and Puerto Viata drag queen.
0:23.1	Hadda lettuce.
0:24.3	You are boots on the ground right now.
0:27.3	We're about one and a half, we're about one week out from the cartel attack in Puerto
0:33.2	Viata.
0:34.2	You've been doing live dispatchers on your Instagram.
0:37.6	How are you doing?
0:39.1	How's everything going?
0:40.4	Well, everything is fine now.
0:42.0	What a difference a week and a half makes?
0:43.6	I tell you, when it initially happened, like many people, it was quite shocking.
0:50.3	The head of the cartel, the Halisco was killed, and then they decided they were going to act out.
0:56.0	And so they just started burning up.
0:58.3	They have 7-Elevens here, but the stores they were burning up were similar to 7-Elevens, oxoes and kioscos.
1:04.4	And so they were burning all those to the ground as many as they could.
1:07.7	And they were burning vehicles as well.
1:11.6	What neighborhood are you in specifically?
1:13.0	I'm in Amelia Ana Zapata, and they really hit this neighborhood hard.
1:17.3	They hit this neighborhood particularly hard.
1:19.0	Like right in front of my house, there was two burning cars.
1:20.9	On the bridge, there was two burning cars.
1:23.2	Oh, and a burning motorcycle.
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