The Vivienne Still 'Shaken Up' By Recent Homophobic Attack

Homophobia is alive and well, unfortunately.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season one winner The Vivienne was attacked by a homophobe in June 2023 while inside a McDonald’s restaurant. At the time, the All Stars 7 star took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to report that a man had started a confrontation with her that was filled with hate speech.

During an interview with This Morning, The Vivienne looked back at that situation and shared how it has affected her in the long term, saying:

“It was in broad daylight. I wasn’t in drag. I was getting a burger… and what happened, happened. But the police were fantastic, but it did kind of shake me up a little bit. I’ve always been, from a young age, so confident and didn’t care what anyone thought. I found myself, even after the attack, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s fine, I’ve dealt with this for years,’ but then going on a train and hiding around a corner, it did shake me up a bit.”