

The veteran confirmed that he hadn’t been formally investigated for Garland’s death and said the iconic Drag Race moment was the “first time I’d ever told anybody about that”.ĭave explained that he “hung out for two nights” with Garland and was talking to her about his job as a “hospital corpsman” at the time. “It was touching that she would do that, and I really loved the way the judges and everybody were cracking up about that, because I know they remember that I killed Judy Garland.”

“It has gotten the 100 or so people who remember me to talk about me and, to this old man, that’s trending, girl! I loved it,” Dave gushed. The reference left RuPaul and Michelle Visage in absolute hysterical tears with Drag Race fans agreeing on social media it might have been the “greatest Snatch Game moment of all time”.ĭave told Entertainment Weekly that he was “seriously touched” that Jinkx would “do that shout-out” on the All Stars 7 stage. “And I want to say, Dave, if you’re watching, you’re not responsible, darling,” Jinkx-as-Judy said, looking directly into the camera. You see, there’s a veteran named Dave who’s been on your show, and said he was worried that he killed me,” Jinkx’s Judy told RuPaul. Dave told RuPaul and Jinkx back in 2013 that he “might have killed Judy Garland” after he told her about a new sleeping pill before she died of an overdose. But the true star of the show was Jinkx’s pitch-perfect impersonation of the late Wizard of Oz icon, often roping the mic and turning directly to the camera for a quick musical break.ĭuring one direct address to the camera, Jinkx-as-Judy talked about a veteran who appeared alongside Monsoon in an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season five, who infamously claimed he had played a role in Garland’s death in 1969. Navy veteran Dave Lara has opened up after Jinkx Monsoon absolved him of any wrongdoing in Judy Garland’s death during her RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7 Snatch Game.įans were left in tears of laughter after the second episode of All Stars 7, which saw contestants compete in back-to-back Snatch Games.
