Sasha Colby has shared the emotional meaning behind her talent show performance on RuPaul's Drag Race.
The legendary performer took to the stage in the show's two-part opening, performing a lip-sync to 'Zombie' by The Cranberries.
Posting on TikTok, Colby said: "My father is 100% Native Hawaiian, my mother is Hawaiian, Irish, and other Caucasian. My mom always wanted us children to learn about all the ethnicities that make us up."
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She continued: "This song Zombie has so many significances for me – knowing why Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries wrote this song as a protest after a brutal IRA attack which two children, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry, were killed in the 1993 Warrington bombings, [knowing why] this song was written.
"I was so [saddened] and fearful watching this in the news as a child."
Colby also spoke about her childhood, saying her mother's untreated bipolar disorder resulted in a volatile upbringing.
She said whenever her mother was having a difficult episode, she would drown it out listening to 'Zombie'.
"I grew up very scared and very lonely, only finding solace in music and make believe," Colby continued. "I chose to do this song for my talent because it perfectly incapsulates my inner child work.
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"The black and white symbolizes my mother and father and the [straitjacket] symbolizes mental illness that not only plagues my mom's psyche but the toll it took on my father which ultimately lead to my father's suicide in 2016. He was just a few years shy of 80 years old."
Colby is a well-known legend in the drag industry, with her participation in the show being likened to "Beyoncé going on American Idol".
During her Meet the Queens segment, she described herself as "your favourite drag queen's favourite drag queen."
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