Yahoo Lifestyle Trixie Mattel reveals breakup with partner and “Trixie Motel” costar David Silver: 'I will always care about that person'
"It was a very long relationship and a lot of parts of it will always make me very happy," the "Drag Race" winner, musician, and TV star said of the separation.
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RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3 winner, musician, and TV star Trixie Mattel announced Monday in a new YouTube video that she and longtime partner and Trixie Motel costar David Silver have broken up.
At the end of the clip, titled "Getting Ready for 2025," the 35-year-old drag superstar revealed that she and Silver have not been together for an extended time, and that she kept the news secret while she went on a highly publicized break from social media and other professional ventures over the summer.
"The other thing I have to tell you guys about, it's not my favorite thing to bring up, but some of you have kind of figured it out and speculated for a while, but David and I separated quite some time ago now. It feels like you people who know me but don't really know me in real life are the last people to know about it," Trixie said in the video (below).
She admitted that "it feels crazy that I haven't come clean on the internet yet," but that she "was waiting for the right moment and the right way" to communicate the information to her fans, who got to know Silver through his work with Trixie on real estate initiatives the couple chronicled across the first season of the docuseries Trixie Motel (which followed Trixie and Silver as they opened a motel in Palm Springs, Calif.) and the project's second season, subtitled Drag Me Home, across which they revamped a home together.
"The longer I waited, the longer it was weird that I hadn't said anything. Then, my break came and went. I worry about talking about things like this because I learned from going on break that even me saying 'I need a break' gets written about and stuff. I wish it was fabulous and dramatic and sensational, and I wish there was more to say, but this isn't salacious, and it just happened," Trixie continued. "It was a very long relationship and a lot of parts of it will always make me very happy."
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She noted that thanks to "lots of exercise and therapy and processing" on her mid-year hiatus, the breakup now "feels like a million years ago," and that she's looking forward to evolving further into 2025.
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Trixie Mattel"It was hard for me because I feel like welcoming everybody into my personal life, I got the privilege of making shows and telling you guys a really compelling love story in my life, and it felt disappointing to not be able to make good on that. It feels like telling you guys there's no Santa Claus in a way," explained Trixie. "But, I really care about that person, I will always care about that person. I love our motel, I love all of our business ventures. Being creative together with him was especially one of the heights of my life. All of my exes, everybody I've ever been with doesn't really leave my orbit. I still always care about these people. Like I said, it's not fresh information, I'm happy to tell you guys now, but it's a new year, it's a new vibe, I hate even having to say it, but I also didn't want to go into the new year and continue to not have mentioned it."
Trixie, who first rose to international prominence on season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2014 before becoming a successful touring recording artist and makeup mogul, first met Silver, a media producer, in 2016. In addition to his work on the crew for movies like The Break-Up and Batman Begins, Silver produced Trixie's emotional 2019 documentary Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts, which also highlighted a turbulent period in Trixie's relationship with her Drag Race sister and creative partner, Katya.
Watch Trixie discuss her breakup with Silver in the video above.
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