


Pearl Black (Image: Family handout/PA Wire) Read More Related Articles Speaking after the inquest last year, the Black family questioned the decision to rule out criminal action because of a little known law where a prosecution couldn't be sought because the vehicle began its motion on private property before rolling across a road. He also said the gear lever of the automatic vehicle was found to be between reverse and park.Ī criminal case was not brought against the owner of the Range Rover, Andrew Williams, as the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) found that the case "failed to meet the evidential test for prosecution".
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Pearl died when a Range Rover rolled across a road and demolished a wall which fell onto her in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil, in August 2017.Īn inquest into her death was held at Pontypridd Coroner's Court in October last year, and ruled that her death was an accident.įorensic collision investigator PC Gareth Davies had told the inquest, held at Pontypridd Coroner's Court: “The handbrake wasn’t applied and it wasn’t in park. Pearl's parents, Paul and Gemma Black, say the decision that “there will be no accountability brings so much fresh pain and anguish it's unbearable”. Watch Katya’s Exposed interview with Joseph Shepherd below.The parents of Pearl Black say they have been dealt a new blow with news that their appeal over a lack of a criminal prosecution after their daughter's death has been rejected. Katya looked at her and gasped, to which Ru stared at her deadpan and raised his middle finger. However, Katya said “Ru is amazing” and recalled a hilarious experience they had when she walked past her in the restaurant.

“One thing that immediately comes to mind is about expectations and there’s a great saying, ‘Expectations are premeditated resentments.’ I can imagine Ru saying what she said to Pearl in a lot of different ways, and I’m not saying she made it up.” “She and Max were over on the couch and I was at the workroom table, closest to them. My perception of Ru is… I watched your interview with Pearl and she says it best: don’t meet your heroes. Related: This is the rumoured cast for RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 5. I was there that day and I remember it very vividly, the feeling of it. When asked if Katya’s experience with the host was similar, she responded: “Mine was worse, but I have enough couth to not bring Ru into it. Last year, Pearl recalled an off-camera moment with Ru that ‘broke her spirit’ and caused her to be so blasé on the show. Shepherd then questioned Katya on the comments her fellow contestant Pearl said of RuPaul. “A lot of it just didn’t read at all,” she continued. Season seven saw more fashion queens than the show had ever produced before, but according to Katya, their abilities were wasted on “acting challenges where you really don’t bring a lot to yourself, especially your original creativity”. Related: Sum Ting Wong hilariously explains why US queens won’t understand Drag Race UK.Ĭommenting on the negative reception of season seven, Katya opined: “I think the general consensus now among the super-fans of the show is that it is a season of great potential in not good challenges. I swear to god, I heard Violet say, ‘Well, looks like we needed a filler queen,’ or something like that. “I get on with everybody at home, even the trolls, the whores, the rotted skanks who had nothing to offer. “I wasn’t prepared for that cattiness, well not cattiness, but I wasn’t prepared to be judged on that level. “They seemed rotten, the girls, they seemed rotten… and some of them were!” she joked of her fellow competitors on season seven.
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Katya has given her opinion on the infamous Drag Race confrontation between RuPaul and Pearl.įor the latest episode of Joseph Shepherd’s digital series Exposed, the self-described “Russian hooker” – who appeared on the show’s seventh season and All Stars 2 – spilt some major T about her time on the Emmy-winning show. “Pearl said it best: don’t meet your heroes.”
