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Chappell Roan gets the job done — even when it comes to removing paint!
On the March 24 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the “Pink Pony Club” hitmaker, 27, revealed how much she struggled to remove green paint from her body after she dressed as the Statue of Liberty for her 2024 Governors Ball performance.
“I don’t think people know this,” Roan began. “I had to spread my cheeks…I just spread my cheeks and get sprayed with green.”
The “Casual” performer then revealed that removing the pain was challenging.
“Like, it didn’t come off,” Roan recalled. “The way I got that off was I took three baths, not soap, dish soap. I literally poured dish soap in and scrubbed rubbed my whole body with coconut oil, jumped in, scrubbed with a literal, like, kitchen sponge.”
She continued, “And every, all of it, came off except there was a green tint to my skin, so I literally looked moldy for four days.”
Roan noted that she had to scrub her bikini lines.
“My pubes are pulling out from it all,” she said. “I’m not even, like, lasered or anything.”
In June 2024, Roan took the stage at Governors Ball as the Statue of Liberty, complete with green body paint, a crown headpiece, a tube top and a skirt.
Paying homage to the city, she made her entrance inside a red apple and exited the fruit prop to kick off her set with her hit “Femininomenon.”
The Grammy winner then announced she was “in drag” as the monument since Lady Liberty is “the biggest queen of them all,” before quoting the poem written on the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,” Roan quoted part of the poem, before elaborating on her opinion, per a video shared on TikTok by Rolling Stone.
She added: “That means freedom in trans rights, that means freedom in women’s rights…and it especially means freedom for all oppressed people in occupied territories.”
Later in the set, Roan also dressed as a classic yellow New York City taxi cab.
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In 2023, the “My Kink Is My Karma” singer spoke to PEOPLE In 2023 about why drag culture is so important and why she books drag queens to open for her on tour.
“It’s just a great way to engage the local queer community to that city,” said Roan at the time. “I encourage people to tip the queens, that’s redistributing funds within the community there, and also it just gives a platform for the drag queens.”
She continued, “Some of these queens have never performed in front of a crowd that big before, and it’s just fun.”
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