Yahoo News RuPaul's Drag Race star Trixie Mattel discusses Katya's breakdown in new documentary
Trixie Mattel isn't holding anything back in her new documentary Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts.
The RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 3 winner was followed by a camera for the documentary project, but things took a turn when cameras caught her best friend and fellow Drag Race star Katya Zamolodchikova having a breakdown on the set of their TV show.
She then took a year out of drag to go to rehab, after relapsing on crystal meth.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Trixie said: "When I signed on to do this film, I honestly thought it would be a highlight reel of how amazing and gorgeous I am.
"But once the cameras started rolling, things got heavier than I expected. But that's real life. And I decided that nothing would be off limits.
"This film really is about the grittier side of drag."
She added: "On the set of The Trixie & Katya Show, the cameras were there to catch B-footage of me on the job and instead, that whole thing took another turn, as we all will see in the film.
"And so there's a lot of things that we just thought would be fun. But, just like in true drag fashion, nothing is easy and nothing is simple.
"Everything is going wrong and there's visible bobby pins and you're falling down the stairs. Like I said, this is the gritty side of drag. It's very real, very raw. [Moving Parts] really got it all - the good, the bad and the ugly."
Trixie, real name Brian Firkus, recently told Digital Spy how her famed friendship was affected.
"It's difficult but if you're somebody's real friend I don't think there's really a flip side,” she said.
"It's like any affliction. Of course it's awful but there's no way around it, you just have to go through it. It was difficult for us in a professional sense, because we are partners and because we have obligations to one another.
"There was a whole four-to-six-month period where we didn't hear from each other and I didn't know what was going on. Sobriety is not a straight line.
"I don't have any problems like that so I learned a lot about what you can do and how much you really can't do for someone."
She added she didn't take anything to heart, despite Katya admitting she "spoke trash" about her, due to her paranoia.
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