Abbie Chatfield was left gobsmacked on Tuesday when an American star brutally roasted her during an interview on her podcast It’s A Lot.
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio, 49, who is known for her harsh but witty insults, unleashed on the Australian podcaster, 29, in a wild spray that left Abbie speechless.
As the successful media personality bemoaned the hateful comments she receives online, the US drag star told Abbie to accept she is ‘not a winner’ and to get over the hate.
‘The people that hate you are going to find a way to hate you. What, do you think you can change someone’s mind? You couldn’t even win the dating game!’ she said.
Abbie shot to fame in 2019 when she was the runner-up on The Bachelor, effectively losing her fight for love with Bachelor Matt Agnew as Bianca referenced.
Though Abbie is now happily dating Peking Duk frontman Adam Hyde.
Abbie Chatfield, 29, (right) was left gobsmacked on Tuesday when US drag star Bianca Del Rio, 49, (left) brutally roasted her during an interview on her podcast It’s A Lot
Bianca then continued with her most brutal comment: ‘Let’s just accept the reality of it all! Accept that you’re not a winner and that sometimes people are not going to like you.
‘I’m just shocked you read the [hate] comments and you haven’t figured out they’re all from me,’ she joked.
Bianca—whose real name is Roy R. Haylock—shot to fame in 2014 after she won the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Australian drag star Courtney Act was a runner-up.
While the advice she delivered to Abbie was harsh and in her usual acidic wit, the Aussie star took it all in good fun and burst into stunned laughter.
‘That’s a fair realisation to have,’ she laughed.
The interaction comes after Abbie was left furious when Instagram removed a post in which she bravely discussed her struggles with suicidal thoughts.
The Bachelor star tearfully spoke about her mental health on her podcast last Tuesday after a man ‘harassed’ her at the Australian Open.
She candidly detailed her struggles with suicidal thoughts as a result of trolling, and dealing with the trauma of domestic violence in a past relationship.
As the successful media personality bemoaned the hateful comments she receives online, the US drag star told Abbie to accept that she is ‘not a winner’ and to get over the hate
But after sharing a clip of the episode to Instagram, Abbie was left enraged after the social media platform seemingly removed it mere hours later.
Abbie took to her Stories to share a screenshot showing Instagram had informed her that her post had been removed. She did not specify the reason it was taken down.
In a caption, Abbie fumed that her video had been removed while online trolls are still able to share cruel content about her.
She raged: ‘Sorry? Love that I can be attacked and bullied on this app with people harassing me daily but I can’t share merely how I FEEL?’
Abbie re-shared the video to her podcast’s Instagram page without the accompanying caption and urged her followers to watch it there instead.
The post’s removal came just hours after she first posted the video, in which she candidly discussed her struggles with suicidal thoughts and anxiety.
During the podcast, Abbie addressed an incident at the Australian Open, where a man ‘harassed’ her while she was working and filmed her.
After the clip was shared online, Abbie tearfully spoke about the resulting backlash, including that of former AFL player Jed Lamb, who commented on the video that she ‘sucked’.
Bianca—whose real name is Roy R. Haylock—shot to fame in 2014 after she won the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Abbie was overwhelmed with emotion as she revealed the Australian Open incident came at a time when she was already struggling psychologically with online trolling.
‘The day before he uploaded that, I was with my therapist speaking about my suicidal ideations to do with all this trolling, to do with feeling like I’m always surveilled, to do with feeling like no matter what I do I’m going to get trolled,’ she shared.
‘Even when I’m not saying or doing anything ”controversial”, I still get attacked and abused and trolled, and I’m just f***ing over it. I’m really f***ing exhausted.’
‘At the moment, my suicidal thoughts are rampant. My resting thought is: ‘F***, I’d love to take a pill and just go to sleep and not wake up, that would be so nice”,’ she went on.
‘When I’m anxious, I think about ending my own life because of this trolling and because of all the things I’ve listed.
‘It’s been a slow burn and I’m just at a point where I’m like: ”I can’t do this anymore, I can’t deal with this anymore, I’m really tired”.’
