RuPaul sends Twitter into a frenzy with interview admission: 'Hold up...'

Because things seemed too calm in the news recently, RuPaul might have accidentally slipped during an NPR interview that he and his partner “lease mineral rights” on their ranch in Wyoming.

The “Drag Race” star told NPR’s Terry Gross that he and husband Georges LeBar own a 60,000-acre piece of land and lease the mineral rights to oil companies.

“Well, a modern ranch, 21st-century ranch, is really land management,” he said, according to Page Six. “You lease the mineral rights to oil companies. And you sell water to oil companies. And you then lease the grazing rights to different ranchers.”

A Twitter user heard the interview and realized it sounded a lot like RuPaul was involved in hydraulic fracking — a practice where companies extract oil and gas by combining (often) dangerous chemicals with large amounts of water and sand to make rock formations that fracture the material surrounding the oil and gas so they can be removed.

It’s a highly controversial practice due to the number of natural resources needed and the negative effects it can have on the area.

Following a viral tweet exposing the theory, Gizmodo writers Dhruv Mehrotra and Dharna Noor looked into RuPaul’s Wyoming property and discovered oil and gas wells, as well as what looked to be like a “frac pad” (a temporary drilling site to create the wells).

RuPaul has not yet commented on the accusations.

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