“RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Shangela has been accused of raping a former HBO manufacturing assistant, in response to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom on Wednesday.

The drag queen, who additionally stars on the hit HBO present “We’re Right here,” was slapped with a lawsuit by Daniel McGarrigle, who claims the alleged assault came about after a drunken crew social gathering in February 2020.

In court docket paperwork obtained by Deadline and seen by Web page Six, McGarrigle, 39, alleges Shangela, whose actual identify is Darius Jeremy Pierce, raped him in a Louisiana resort room.

McGarrigle alleges the drag queen, who can also be his supervisor in response to the go well with, made him drink 5 photographs and two combined drinks on the crew social gathering, earlier than inviting him over to a resort to assist him pack his luggage for a flight the following day.

In accordance with the go well with, McGarrigle claims he “instantly threw up in the bathroom” after Pierce allegedly instructed he stayed over.

The alleged assault came about after McGarrigle fell asleep totally clothed in Pierce’s resort room.

He claims that he screamed “no” and tried to wrestle in the course of the alleged assault, however “felt extraordinarily weak,” in response to the go well with.

“Plaintiff was disoriented from the excessive he was experiencing from the poppers and the concern that overcame him in the course of the sexual assault,” the lawsuit states.

“Pierce overpowered McGarrigle and was in a position to maintain him down.”

McGarrigle claims that he started to really feel disoriented and overcome by concern, alleging that Pierce instructed him, “I do know you need it, and also you’re going to take it.”

McGarrigle “didn’t instantly report the sexual assault to the authorities or to Buckingham TV” as a result of he was “frightened of dropping his job,” he claims.

He “tried to take care of a cordial relationship with Pierce” earlier than resigning from his position in 2021, he provides.

Pierce, 42, has referred to as the previous HBO staffer’s allegations “solely meritless,” saying that they “perpetuate damaging stereotypes which can be dangerous not solely to me but additionally to my total neighborhood.”

“I can’t start to elucidate how harm and disgusted I’m by these completely unfaithful allegations,” Shangela stated in a press release to Deadline.

“This latest submitting is nothing however an try and shake down each me and a well-regarded tv firm. Nobody ought to be fooled: it has no foundation in actual fact or in legislation, and it’ll not succeed.”

McGarrigle is searching for unspecified damages for sexual assault, sexual harassment, gender violence, false imprisonment, and negligence from the drag race star, in addition to the present’s manufacturing firm, Buckingham Tv.

“Buckingham and HBO take the security and well-being of personnel on our exhibits very critically, and Buckingham instantly launched an investigation [when the incident was reported to them in July 2021,” a rep for HBO’s “We’re Right here” stated in a press release shared with Deadline.

“The investigation concluded that there was inadequate proof to assist these allegations.”

Web page Six has reached out to reps for Shangela and HBO’s “We’re Right here” for additional remark.

Pierce first joined the forged of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” as Shangela in the course of the present’s second season in 2010.

After being eradicated within the first episode, Shangela returned in season 3 the place Pierce made it to the highest 5, turning into a widely known drag queen.

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Since his stint on the hit present, Pierce appeared in a number of TV exhibits, together with “Glee” and “Dancing With The Stars.”

In 2020, Pierce landed the co-hosting gig on HBO’s “We’re Right here” which sees Shangela and two different drag queens journey throughout the nation in the hunt for drag queens.