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Drag divas Bianca Del Rio and Lady Bunny brought “Tan Mom” Patricia Krentcil on stage at New York gay bar XL for a roast outside a tanning bed. Tan Mom was so intoxicated she stumbled, crawled, and rolled a little on the red carpet, and allegedly started a backstage catfight with a drag queen (my money’s on Bunny) while making adamant and slurring proclamations that she did not put her child in a tanning bed, thank you very much. She was such a disaster, she eventually got kicked off stage. I’m just sad she didn’t sing the Oompa Loompa song as she left.

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