RuPaul: Blocking Out the Bullshit (FBF)

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Join Alex in the studio for a very raw interview with RuPaul! Alex and RuPaul discuss when he feels his most confident and why he prefers to be alone. RuPaul talks about his childhood and how he always knew he was different from the other kids. He opens up about his parents’ broken relationship, the day his mom tried to set his father’s car on fire, and how he found himself mimicking their toxic behaviors in his own life. Alex and RuPaul discuss emotionally unavailable men, why it’s so important to break the cycle of bad partners, and how it truly doesn’t matter what other people think of you. RuPaul tells some crazy stories from his early days in the club scene and gets real about what he was doing to avoid confronting his feelings. RuPaul opens up about meeting his husband, falling in love, breaking up, and how they ultimately found their way back to each other. This interview is full of wisdom and shows a side of RuPaul we’ve never seen before… Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.
0:11.6	Okay, okay, okay. RuPaul, welcome to Call Her Daddy. Thanks.
0:15.6	Thank you so much for being here. I am very, very excited to talk to you. I think my fans are going to freak out.
0:21.3	I think this collab is going to be very fun. When are you your most confident?
0:25.5	When I'm alone. People freak me out, man. People are freaky. Most people think of confidence
0:33.7	as power or as having stuff or doing things. But it's, that's not, I feel most
0:40.5	confident when I'm not distracted by other people's bullshit. Period. Would you consider yourself
0:46.1	high or low maintenance? Oh, I am so low maintenance. I am so low maintenance. You would not
0:53.2	believe it.
0:54.5	Really?
0:55.1	Yes.
0:56.2	I can take care of myself.
0:58.5	And you know what?
1:00.2	I open my own door.
1:02.2	I take care of myself.
1:03.6	Being alone with yourself, being good with yourself and relying on yourself, it's kind of all you fucking need.
1:08.0	It really is.
1:08.9	No, no. No, no. it's kind of all you fucking need it really is okay let's talk about your memoir congratulations the house of hidden meanings i think that this book
1:32.1	is incredible because you offer like a very personal look into your childhood you offer a personal
1:39.1	look into early relationships and just some of the biggest struggles that you've been through
1:43.6	in your life.
1:44.6	So let's get into it. As a little boy, did you want to be famous? Like, would anyone have
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