Just one week after competing on I’m A Celebrity Impersonator, Snatch Me Out of Here, the remaining eight queens of Drag Race Down Under have been tasked with designing and constructing garments from scratch. That’s right, folks, it’s a sewing challenge. And while the queens produced their very best, it was unfortunately Lucina Innocence’s time to sashay away.
In conversation with Not Safe For Queers, Lucina Innocence reminisces on her time in the competition, discusses her struggles with being labelled as the weakest link, and confronts her inner saboteur.
To label the queens of Drag Race Down Under Season 4 as shady would be an understatement. From the moment our 10 fabulous queens first gathered at the entrance table on episode one, quips were being thrown back and forth faster than Karna Ford could ask, “how you doin?”.
And in those first moments, it was the alluring Lucina Innocence (and her fellow Aoteraoran queen Olivia Dreams) who were immediately labelled as the easy targets. “From the start I was looked at as someone they didn’t need to watch out for; not a threat at all,” Lucina tells Not Safe For Queers.
“And I think that that was running through my head the entire competition, which definitely was self-sabotage on my part. But, yeah, I can definitely understand why the girls saw me as that—because they were only judging based on what they’d seen.”
Those same sentiments have run throughout the entire competition, with this week’s episode being no exception. In fact, as the queens began a new day in the workroom, Mandy Moobs revealed—seemingly unprompted—she was surprised that Lucina was safe with her Snatch Game performance.
“I was excited to finally have a week where I wasn’t in the bottom,” Lucina says. “So, for that to have been said, I was already in a spiral, and that kind of thing definitely didn’t help…and I think I deserved safe.”
Then, during this week’s mini challenge (a ‘most likely to’ challenge), Lucina was once again labelled as ‘most likely to go home next’.
“That was just, like, an eyeball moment for me. But I would’ve been more surprised if they chose anyone else, because at this point, I do have the worst track record,” she says.
However, the competition hasn’t been all doom and gloom for the Aucklander who managed to officially make it to the halfway point and compete in Snatch Game, a sewing challenge, and a girl group challenge (the latter of which she says she enjoyed most).
“I’d probably say the girl group was my favourite. Even though I lip synced, I really enjoyed writing and recording our verses. It was a fabulous time.”
Nevertheless, at the pointy end of this week’s episode, Lucina Innocence went head-to-head with the dancing diva of Brisbane, Freya Armani, in a lip sync to Moving Pictures’ nostalgic ‘What About Me?’ before being asked to sashay away.
“I had heard that [Freya] was a dancer, so, yeah, I kind of figured at that point that it was probably my time to go.”
Episodes of Drag Race Down Under Season 4 stream each Friday—only on Stan.