Reese Witherspoon ‘burst into tears’ after reuniting with famous friend of 35 years on set of new series “Lucky” Wesley StenzelWed, July 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM UTC 0 Reese Witherspoon in Los Angeles on July 13Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP via GettyKey points Reese Witherspoon said that she “burst into tears” when she reunited with an actor friend on the set of Lucky. Witherspoon said that she has known her Lucky collaborator since she was 16. “The fact that we both made it and we get to work together is really beautiful,” she said.

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Reese Witherspoon said that she “burst into tears” when she reunited with an actor friend on the set of Lucky.

Witherspoon said that she has known her Lucky collaborator since she was 16.

“The fact that we both made it and we get to work together is really beautiful,” she said.

Reese Witherspoon‘s latest project is a reunion 35 years in the making.

The Legally Blonde actress shared her emotional reaction to seeing one of her oldest friends in Hollywood when they finally collaborated on their new show, Lucky.

“I’ve known Clifton Collins Jr. since I was 16 years old,” Witherspoon said in an interview with ET. “So when I saw him on set and he was all in character, I burst into tears. We hugged each other for a solid 10 minutes.”

Clifton Collins Jr. in Los Angeles on July 13Credit: Maya Dehlin/WireImage

Witherspoon never acted alongside Collins, but they moved in the same circles as young actors trying to gain a foothold in the entertainment industry. “We were both auditioning together as young people,” she explained. “And the fact that we both made it and we get to work together is really beautiful.”

Since his breakout performance in One Eight Seven, Collins has become one of Hollywood’s most reliable character actors. He was part of the main cast of shows such as Westworld,The Event, Ballers, and The Last Frontier, and appeared in episodes of series like ER, Veronica Mars, The Blacklist, and The Shield. He also played supporting roles in acclaimed movies including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Star Trek, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Traffic, and Capote, as well as recent films like Train Dreams, Eddington, After Yang, and Red, White, and Royal Blue.

Mo McRae, William Fichtner, Jonathan Tropper, Lauren Levy Nuestadter, Reese Witherspoon, Anya Taylor-Joy, Drew Starkey, Cassie Pappas, Annette Bening, Clifton Collins Jr., Jonathan van Tulleken, and Artur Zai Barrera in Los Angeles on July 13Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Apple TV via Getty

Lucky, which Witherspoon executive produced and features Collins in a key supporting role, follows Lucky Armstrong, a con artist played by Anya Taylor-Joy.

Witherspoon said that she felt compelled to bring Lucky to the screen after reading Marissa Stapley’s “insane” 2021 novel of the same name.

“I was reading it in my living room freaking out,” Witherspoon said. “I’d never read a female con artist character like that. So I called my producing partner, Lauren [Neustadter] and I was like, ‘We’ve gotta make this.’”

Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘Lucky’Credit: Apple TV

Witherspoon and Neustadter quickly started brainstorming casting ideas. “We immediately started talking about who could be in it. We were like, ‘Anya!’” she recalled. “Because she’s such a chameleon. Every movie she’s in, every performance, is so different from the one before. And she looks good as a redhead, she looks good as a blonde. She somehow just transforms herself.”

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The Election star sang the praises of the Queen’s Gambit actress. “You’re just rooting for her,” she said. “She’s such a badass on film, and this character requires incredible stamina, incredible quick, clever decision-making, and she’s just utterly perfect. So we were so excited she decided to join us.”

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Trump&x27;s intelligence nominee Jay Clayton clashes with Democrats over 2020 election By MARY CLARE JALONICK Wed, July 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM UTC 6 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies struggled to win Democratic support in a contentious confirmation hearing Wednesday where he clashed repeatedly with them over the 2020 election. Democrats asked Jay Clayton, the U.S.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies struggled to win Democratic support in a contentious confirmation hearing Wednesday where he clashed repeatedly with them over the 2020 election.

Democrats asked Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, over and over again whether former President Joe Biden won the election and defeated Trump. Echoing many of Trump's nominees, Clayton said many times that the election was “certified" for Biden, declining to say outright that the Democrat won.

“I'm not going to get into this with you,” Clayton told Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, the last of several Democrats on the committee to grill Clayton on the 2020 election. Clayton appeared frustrated and flustered as Ossoff repeated the question several times. “I've answered it," he said.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who had praised Clayton’s nomination when Trump picked him for the role last month, expressed exasperation with him at the end of the hearing. Democrats say they are concerned that Trump will try to direct intelligence agencies to influence U.S. elections as the president has repeated his false claims that the 2020 contest was stolen.

“I’ve known Mr. Clayton for some time, I worked with him closely when he was at the SEC,” said Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence panel. “But I am bitterly disappointed.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said after the hearing that he thought Clayton’s performance was “abysmal,” and that “makes it much less likely that he will get Democratic votes.”

While Clayton has broad support among Republicans, the acrimony with Democrats could be a blow to GOP leaders who had hoped to gain their consent for a quick vote to replace temporary intelligence director Bill Pulte, a former housing official with no known intelligence experience and who used his previous administration perch to target perceived adversaries of the president.

Senators in both parties have criticized Pulte, and Republicans had hoped to confirm Clayton immediately after he was nominated in June so Pulte did not take over when Gabbard left office. But Trump delayed Clayton’s nomination before the Senate left for a two-week recess, allowing Pulte to take the job temporarily.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said the committee will vote on Clayton's nomination next week.

Clayton emphasizes national security experience

Clayton did not mention Pulte in the hearing. But he emphasized his own government and national security experience, attempting to assuage senators in both parties.

“I saw firsthand how a strong national security apparatus depends on decisive judgment, discipline, integrity, and effective communication and cooperation across different branches of the government,” Clayton said in his opening statement. “If confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will commit to upholding these principles every day.”

Cotton, who expressed frustration last month when the hearing was delayed, said in his opening statement Wednesday that Clayton has a reputation for operating with “morality, decency and integrity” in his previous positions and that he hopes his nomination will win bipartisan support.

Democrats press Clayton on Gabbard's election activities

Democrats also pressed Clayton on former National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's visit to a Georgia election office earlier this year during an FBI search related to the 2020 election. Trump administration officials have given varying explanations for Gabbard's involvement in the search, which appeared to be outside of her intelligence role.

Clayton declined to say whether Gabbard's visit was appropriate or how he would handle the same situation. At one point he said he wasn't aware of Gabbard's visit before this week, then later appeared to backtrack, saying “it wasn't something on my mind” before he started to prepare for the hearing.

Warner said it “strains credibility” that Clayton wasn’t aware of Gabbard’s election activities.

Democrats also asked Clayton about Trump’s announcement that he will deliver a primetime address on Thursday with a focus on elections, after the president suggested he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat. Clayton said he had has no involvement with that speech.

As US attorney in Manhattan, Clayton oversees vast portfolio

Clayton is currently the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most prestigious of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices. His cases have ranged from terrorism and espionage cases to security fraud and public corruption.

Democrats pressed Clayton on subpoenas of four New York Times journalists after they reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The Committee to Protect Journalists has called the subpoenas “an extraordinary escalation in President Trump’s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations and have a chilling effect on the work of journalists across the country."

Clayton said he was not able to discuss the details of the subpoenas and declined to elaborate on whether he spoke to the White House before they were issued. He said he is “confident in procedures we have in place to protect freedom of press.”

Under Clayton, the office also facilitated the unsealing of thousands of pages of court records from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — documents that were made public as part of the Justice Department’s release of records related to the late sex offender and his longtime confidant.

Clayton has also overseen the prosecution of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, on drug trafficking charges.

Confirmation vote could unlock renewal of surveillance authority

Clayton’s confirmation could potentially clear the way for bipartisan legislation to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which stalled last month when Democrats had said they would not provide the necessary votes to pass the bill unless Pulte’s temporary appointment was withdrawn.

The law, which aims to prevent terrorist attacks by monitoring the communications of targeted foreigners located outside the United States, expired in June.

Even if Democrats relent, it is unclear if Trump would sign the bill. He said in his June social media post delaying Clayton’s nomination that he would not sign the FISA renewal without his legislation to require proof of citizenship for all voters. The voting bill does not have enough support to pass the Senate.

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ACC looks to corporate sponsorships as a way to boost the bottom line of league revenue By AARON BEARDWed, July 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM UTC 0 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jim Phillips has spent his fiveplusyear tenure as Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner trying to generate more revenue for a league facing financial pressures even with yearly record hauls. For his league — and across the national landscape in the revenuesharing era, for that matter — that has included more emphasis on corporate sponsorships. Finding event sponsors for naming rights.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jim Phillips has spent his five-plus-year tenure as Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner trying to generate more revenue for a league facing financial pressures even with yearly record hauls.

For his league — and across the national landscape in the revenue-sharing era, for that matter — that has included more emphasis on corporate sponsorships.

Finding event sponsors for naming rights. Securing deals for advertisements on conference TV networks. It's all about looking for ways to sell those options and supplement the media rights payouts and earnings from postseason success that stand as core engines of the college financial system.

And stacking every bit helps in a time when schools are allowed to pay athletes directly.

“I don’t know if it’s pressure, but it’s the reality,” Phillips said Wednesday in an interview with The during the league's preseason football media days. “To me it’s the reality of this role and it’s reality of our league. We have to continue to find incremental dollars each and every year that continue to grow.”

ACC's revenue grows while trailing the Big Ten and SEC

That's been a particular focus for Phillips, too, in dealing with a significant revenue gap behind the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference since his spring 2021 arrival.

The league reported about $826.5 million in total revenue in tax filings covering the 2024-25 sports season, with schools earning a full distribution share getting an average of $47.1 million.

That continued the ACC's upward trajectory; the league reported $617 million for 2021-22 in Phillips' first full season, good for a full-share average of $39.4 million. And Phillips said Wednesday during his annual forum that the league would crack $900 million in total revenue for the just-completed 2025-26 season.

By comparison, the Big Ten and SEC both crossed the $1 billion mark in total revenue in their 2024-25 filings, with the Big Ten paying an average of nearly $79.9 million to full-share members while the SEC came in at nearly $72.4 million.

The biggest way to move the needle for a league looking to change its financial picture typically is media rights contracts. The ACC is locked into a deal with ESPN — both for its base TV rights and the August 2019 launch of the ACC Network — through the 2035-36 season. The TV revenue continues to increase, but Phillips said at least some gains have come through corporate sponsorships, such as investment management firm T. Rowe Price putting its name on the tradition-rich men's basketball tournament.

The ACC has doubled its list of corporate sponsorships to nine in the past five years, a list that includes Apple, Dr Pepper, Gatorade and Allstate. On Wednesday, the league announced a deal with AI cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest, which includes advertising through ESPN, ESPN parent company Disney and the ACC Network.

That goes with other adjustments such as changes to the league's revenue-distribution model to reward programs that generate higher TV viewership and the “success initiative” that allows schools to keep money generated by their own postseason success.

“You can’t wait around, you can't just kind of sit on your hands as it relates to some of these other areas and not fully explore and commit to finding those additional dollars,” Phillips told the AP. “All of that stuff adds up incrementally.”

Corporate sponsorships could offer growing revenue opportunities

Bob Lynch is bullish on corporate sponsorships from a national level. He's the founder and chief executive officer of SponsorUnited, a company that uses AI to track sponsorship deals across professional and college sports.

“I think everybody's starting to recognize these are businesses as well as educational institutions that need to compete and drive value," Lynch said.

In its most recent report, SponsorUnited estimated that Power Four schools generated about $1 billion in corporate sponsorship revenue across roughly 6,300 deals for the 2025-26 season.

That equated to about $9.7 million per school in the ACC and $11.2 million for the Big 12, which announced a multiyear partnership with beverage brand Monster Energy last week. The SEC ($21.5 million) and Big Ten ($16.1 million) led the way in that report, with the Big 12 as the only league lacking its own TV channel.

“There’s not a lot of places where you can go to an AD and say, ‘Look I think we could potentially generate $5-10-20 million annually if we think differently about this side of the business and we can control it,'” Lynch said. “So it becomes a really intriguing space to look and say if we invest there, we could potentially extract a lot of dollars and generate a lot that we weren’t doing before."

In the ACC's case, that meant hiring Anthony Macri last September as its first chief revenue officer. Macri previously worked for a Formula 1 racing team and spent a decade with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, where bolstering sponsorship revenue represented a critical component.

Now he's trying to do that for the ACC, as well as helping schools in determining their own options on anything from patches on jerseys to arena signage. And unlike selling a finite number of tickets for an event, corporate sponsorships could offer layers of revenue options.

“We have a chance to really grow that area,” Macri said. “It's been an underleveraged opportunity that has unlimited growth potential, so that gives us a lot of room to push on.”

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CONY Shareholders Lost 56.25% While Paying Tax on Their Own Money Back Michael WilliamsWed, July 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM UTC 0 Branding Pot / Shutterstock.comQuick Read CONY dropped 56% in the past year while distributions collapsed from $2.79 to $0.06 and quietly returned investors&x27; own capital as taxable income. Direct COIN shares deliver nearly identical price outcomes without fund fees, capped upside, or a synthetic option overlay that forfeits every rally. This lithium producer surpassed a $1B private valuation, joining some of America&x27;s most powerful startups.

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CONY dropped 56% in the past year while distributions collapsed from $2.79 to $0.06 and quietly returned investors' own capital as taxable income.

Direct COIN shares deliver nearly identical price outcomes without fund fees, capped upside, or a synthetic option overlay that forfeits every rally.

This lithium producer surpassed a $1B private valuation, joining some of America's most powerful startups. Now you can invest in EnergyX alongside global giants like General Motors, but only through July 16. (sponsor)

The pitch is a 78% yield on a crypto-exchange proxy. The reality is that a fund charging you monthly for the privilege of capping your own upside has quietly turned a bet on Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) into a slow leak. YieldMax COIN Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:CONY) shareholders got most of Coinbase's downside and almost none of the recoveries. Then they paid tax on their own principal coming back as "income."

What You're Actually Paying

CONY's expense ratio is not disclosed in the April 30, 2026 NPORT filing, an unusual gap for a fund with $397 million in net assets. That is only the sticker cost. The structural cost dwarfs it.

Look at the last twelve months. CONY fell 56.25% from July 2025 to July 2026. Coinbase itself fell 59.10% over the same window. Investors who bought CONY for "income with less risk" got almost the entire drawdown and gave away the upside on every rally in exchange. On a $10,000 position held for that year, the price value collapsed to roughly $4,375. The distributions cushioned that, but a large share of those distributions was your own capital handed back to you.

The Part the Factsheet Doesn't Highlight

CONY holds Treasury Bills at 91.60% of net assets plus a set of paired long and short call options on COIN. The matching unit counts on the long and short legs (10,940, 10,055, 5,530, 4,555, 1,000) confirm a synthetic covered call. The short calls collect premium. They also cap gains at the strike. When COIN rips higher, you keep the premium and forfeit the rally.

July 16 is the Final Day to Tap Into the Lithium Boom (sponsor)General Motors, POSCO, and 50,000+ everyday investors have already backed lithium producer EnergyX.

Here's why you should do the same before their July 16 investment deadline: lithium prices are up 75% this year, with demand projected to grow a staggering 5X by 2040.

With tech that can recover up to 3X more lithium than traditional methods, EnergyX is preparing to unlock up to 15M+ tons. Become a private-stage EnergyX investor before the July 16 deadline.

Now look at the distribution history. In April 2024, CONY paid $2.7944 in a single distribution. By late November 2025 the payments had collapsed to $0.0635 and $0.0656. The 2026 schedule is a weekly drip in the $0.22 to $0.56 range. Trailing twelve-month distributions total $15.3524 on a share price of $19.46. A payout that size relative to price is a red flag for return of capital, which is not free money. It reduces your cost basis and defers a tax bill rather than eliminating it. Meanwhile the NAV bleeds visibly: shares opened 2026 at $27.92 and traded at $19.63 by July 10, a 27.02% year-to-date decline.

Options premium is also taxed less kindly than qualified dividends. For a taxable account, the ordinary-income treatment on the option-derived portion, combined with the ROC erosion of basis, is a two-sided tax drag the fund's yield headline never mentions.

The Cheaper Mirror

If the goal is Coinbase exposure, the cheaper mirror is Coinbase. Direct shares of COIN carry no fund fee, no capped upside, and no synthetic option overlay siphoning off rallies. Over the past year the price outcomes were close (CONY down 56.25% versus COIN down 59.10%), but on any strong up move CONY's short calls will hand the gains back. Investors who want crypto-linked income with lower structural cost can pair a direct COIN position with their own covered calls at strikes they choose, or use a broad, lower-cost crypto equity fund and generate income from Treasuries directly. The T-bill sleeve inside CONY is something you can already own for a few basis points.

What This Means for You

CONY clearly pays. The real question is what it pays with. If a big share of your monthly check is your own principal returning in a higher-tax wrapper, and the fund's design guarantees you miss the upside that would replace that principal, ask what you are actually renting for the fee you cannot see on the factsheet.

Meet America's Newest $1b Unicorn (Sponsor)

A US startup just passed a $1 billion private valuation, joining billion-dollar private companies like OpenAI and ByteDance. Unlike those other unicorns, you can invest in EnergyX right now; but only until July 16.

Over 50,000 people already have, along with global giants like General Motors and POSCO.

Here's why there's so much interest: EnergyX's patented tech can recover up to 3X more lithium than traditional methods. That's a big deal, as demand for lithium is expected to 5X current production levels by 2040. Become an early-stage EnergyX shareholder before the 7/16 investment deadline.

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Monét tells EW there might be a second, secret alliance brewing on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7. Monét X Change teases new Drag Race All Stars 7 alliance: 'I was not the only one playing the game' Monét tells EW there might be a second, secret alliance brewing on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiBiophotof93a23298bdd47ba9c13f53815fc469b.jpg) Joey Nolfi Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at . Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. EW's editorial guidelines June 8, 2022 7:49 p.m.

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Monét X Change — beloved sponge queen — is soaking up all of the chaotic vibes after being blocked from winning another Legendary Legend Star for the first time on *RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7*.

Though she stirred the pot by forming an alliance with fellow* All Stars 4 *winner Trinity The Tuck back on episode 1 of the first all-winners competition in *Drag Race* her-story, Monét says in an exclusive EW's BINGE podcast interview (below) that she suspects an alternate, secret alliance is brewing among her sisters outside the *AS4* coalition — specifically, as she says, including *Drag Race UK*'s The Vivienne, who handed Monét the Platinum Plunger on Friday's episode.

"Jaida did hand it to her, so, maybe they have some situation working that I'm not privy to, and I'm very curious to see what ends up happening," Monét says of the moment Jaida Essence Hall handed The Vivienne a xylophone prop from off-stage to enhance her lip-sync performance at the end of the episode, which helped her win the dance-off and ultimately gave her the ability to block Monét. "We haven't seen it yet, I don't know where we're at or what you've seen or what makes the cut, but I definitely thought there was a smoker's alliance going on, and this was furthering my point."

When asked if she knew that Jaida was going to spruce up The Vivienne's performance with the prop hand-off, Monét maintains that she had no idea the exchange would happen.

Jaida Essence Hall gives The Vivienne a xylophone during her 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7' lip-sync.

"I think that it's part of the alliance. Maybe it did happen, but I did not see any talks of them giving someone a xylophone, about who's going to do the *American Bandstand*," Monét explains. "So, I think there's some alliance that we're going to find out about, and people will see that I was not the only one playing the game."

While she still has her eyes on Jaida, Monét counts The Vivienne out of her plan for an alliance, joking that she "will absolutely come for that bitch" after the British queen's latest move.

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"Now that I have been blocked, I don't feel the weight of having to be so crazy with the alliance. I'm still going to be working, but not as intensely as I was," finishes Monét. "Maybe a little twist might come that might force me to play hard again, but who knows?"

See how Monét deals with being blocked in the Werk Room when RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 continues Friday on Paramount+. Listen to Monét's full BINGE interview above, and hear more episodes from our *Drag Race* podcast feed below.

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Jinkx Monsoon swept up the *RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 *crown thanks in large part to her *Snatch Game* performance as Judy Garland, but one question about the legendary impersonation has endured for puzzled fans and judges alike: Why did she (hilariously) refer to RuPaul as "Broom" during the challenge?

The season 5 winner revealed that the joke wasn't intended to be understood by anyone other than Alyssa Edwards and Alaska, her drag sisters from her original season on the show, which aired in 2013.

"Alaska and I were constantly doing impressions of Alyssa Edwards' [*Snatch Game*] impersonation of Katy Perry that was so baffling that we couldn't help but just make a whole character based on just that impression. Alyssa Edwards' voice is already extremely unique, and then her voice trying to do Katy Perry was just more Alyssa than even Alyssa normally talks," Jinkx said on Thursday's episode of Vulture's *Good One* podcast. "We kept joking that, as Katy Perry, when Ru asks Alyssa, 'Have you ever kissed a girl?' and Alyssa went, 'Ru, never!' [it became] 'Bru,' and then it just devolved into 'Broom, neber," so when I called Ru 'Broom,' it was the tiniest little Easter egg, pretty much just for Alaska."

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Jinkx Monsoon on 'RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7'. Paramount+/World of Wonder

Jinkx's iconic *Snatch Game* performance did more than just cleanse the souls of weary *Drag Race* fans: It also absolved the queen's season 5 makeover subject, veteran soldier Dave Lara, of his self-proclaimed role in Garland's death after he made the stunning revelation in the Werk Room back in 2013.

During her performance on *All Stars 7*, Jinkx made a direct address to Lara by telling him that he was "not responsible" for Garland's death. In a subsequent interview with EW, Lara explained that, upon meeting the iconic actress at a Boston speakeasy in November 1968, he provided her with barbiturates shortly before she died the following year.

"I don't want to be judged by people. I don't want to be castigated or made out to be the villain. Ru and I had a conversation on the show where she said [Judy] did a lot to get to this place. Judy had a choice, and, like *The Matrix*, you can take the blue pill and go to sleep and wake up in the morning and never remember any of this, or you can take the red pill and go down the rabbit hole and never come out. She made that choice," Lara said. "Whether I allowed or contributed to that, she was so clever, she would've found the pills anyway. That made me feel a little better, but people don't know about that time. We were stupid, we were ignorant. Giving someone with an addiction pills? I've never given anyone pills or drugs or anything since."

Watch Jinkx's iconic *All Stars 7 Snatch Game* performance — and listen to her appearance on the *Good One* podcast — above.

***Subscribe to*****EW's BINGE* podcast****** for full recaps of *RuPaul's Drag Race*, including weekly *All Stars 7 *recaps and reactions with the cast, special guests, and more.***

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