AND SOBER SINCE 1999 –
Feb. 25, 2024 – The 63-year-old drag queen and reality competition host revealed that he had been getting high ‘every day I could’ going back to when he was just 10 years old. He is giving his fans an intimate look at his decades-long battle with addiction in his upcoming memoir The House Of Hidden Meanings. Although he spoke openly of his struggles with substance abuse, it took RuPaul’s then-partner and future husband Georges LeBar’s own addiction to help him realize he had a problem.
RuPaul (full name: RuPaul Andre Charles) recounted how he was flying high in the 1990s as his profile increased, allowing him to fly to Miami to put on multiple club gigs for $10,000 to $12,000 a pop.
But his increased fame and his constant travel separated him form his partner Georges, who was left alone more and more of the time to supervise the renovation of a condo the two had bought in Miami.
RuPaul recalled seeing Georges looking thinner than ever and shared his growing suspicions that something unsavory was going on behind the scenes.
‘Georges and I had never had a conversation where we had strictly outlined the terms of our relationship, but it was understood that he was not to hurt my feelings, nor was I to hurt his,’ the entertainer wrote. ‘Neither of us would ever have done anything to make the other feel uncomfortable when we were together, nor would we have attempted to police each other’s behavior when we were apart. But I had a sense that Georges was doing things in Miami I wouldn’t like.’
