Alyssa Edwards Recalls "Bizarre" First Drag Show: "I'd Like to Try This" | In Studio - video Dailymotion

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"The first time I put on the wig every insecurity, every doubt, every fear diminished. The wig is cap," Justin Johnson, also known as drag queen Alyssa Edwards, told The Hollywood Reporter.

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00:00I've always been a dreamer a believer and a doer and I think the way I was

00:07raised I promised myself when I left that house I would never go back and I

00:13would be something successful don't know if I really knew what that meant and I

00:20found drag just to be widely compelling I went to my very first drag show and I

00:25thought well this is bizarre completely I seen the audience's face heard the

00:31applause and they just the way they were engaged in this act I thought well hmm

00:37I'd like to try this the first time I put on the wig every insecurity every doubt

00:44every fear diminished the wig is a cape it's like Bruce Wayne and Batman kind of

00:49life I felt like confident you know because for so long I was like so afraid

00:57of the world and being judged and being labeled and I just kind of went into this

01:03like really weird awkward like shell and drag change that for me yeah it was like

01:11I always reference the movie Wizard of Oz because and it for Dorothy it took a man

01:20the wizard to tell her she always had the power and for me it was the wig it was

01:27the makeup so if I can now be that man behind the curtain and share my passion

01:33with the children of beyond belief and now the world I fully am living my

01:39purpose

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