hi ugly it's me and welcome back to my channel today we're going to be covering the situation
brewing with Shannel top four finalist from rupaul's drag race season 1, all stars 1
and the regular host of a drag queen brunch show at señor frogs in las vegas as of this
week she's been accused of stealing a large sum of money from a customer's purse that was
in the audience of one of those brunch shows and we've got a series of accusations and statements
made by that customer who's going by megy mama on tick tock now so we'll be breaking all that down
and clearing up the chronological order of the accusations statements and events as they occur
let's jump right in this all started three days ago on august 15 2022 when MeggyMomma uploaded
a video to tiktok with the caption written over at theft drag brunch senior frogs treasure island
and in that video Meggy alleges several things Shannel who she first falsely identifies as brian
welch took her purse grabbed and performed with her purse and then took a lot of cash out of it
upon returning it the main drag queen decided to come in grab my purse walk around like this
with it as he's going and collecting his dollars and then at the end when he returned my purse he
proceeded to open it up and take a lot of cash out of my purse she then describes an interaction with
Shannel that allegedly occurred in front of the audience present where she says she said this and
after a few minutes he looked at me and he said what's wrong with you white girl and the tan dress
and i said well i'm pissed you just stole money from my wallet and he tells the amount of money
she believes was in the purse before and after the incident saying this and i had about thirteen
hundred dollars in there and after i looked at my wallet and i have like 350 give or take i believe
he took around five seven hundred dollars and he goes [ __ ] please i took a dollar this is
in front of the entire stage after not being able to resolve the situation then during the show she
says she excuses herself from the brunch and goes to speak with the management she also notes in
this video they did file a police report regarding the situation and ends the video saying this i
guess i'm just some white privileged [ __ ] that doesn't deserve her cash and this video received
several hundred thousand views the next day though she posted a video of the incident occurring
and the original caption was still incorrectly identifying Shannel's name as being brian welch
where she wrote brian welch stealing a lot of cash for my purse you can see i say i had hundreds in
there which she also posted in a second video which is the same video of the incident but just
with a new caption with the name brian watkins and in this video we can see Shannel holding a purse
we then see Shannel reach into the purse take money out of the purse and adds it to her wad
of cash that were tips from other customers we see the camera pan over to who is actually MeggyMomma
revealing this video was not taken by Meggy but by somebody else maybe at her table or with her party
and using some voice isolation software we can hear her actually say i had hundreds in there
regarding the amount of money though i have enhanced this video several different ways with
video ai enhancing software and it's just too compressed and low quality to actually discern
what was removed from the purse even going frame by frame it is impossible to tell Shannel puts her
hand in and she then proceeds to remove that cash from the bag and adds it to her wad of cash that
she already had while she was holding the purse that were tips from other customers after posting
these two videos showing the same incident with the two different names MeggyMomma posts a third
video which she starts off by thanking everyone that was commenting sharing and liking on those
videos thank you thank you thank you you guys want justice just like i do she further elaborates on
some of the details about what happened that day saying that she spent over three hours talking
to managers trying to sort the situation out we literally were there for almost three hours we
called the police we wanted to press charges the police had us do a report over the phone because
they didn't have anybody that could come out and elaborates that she originally let Shannel have
the bag because she assumed Shannel was going to be a good person and not steal from her we
also find out here that the tickets for her party to attend this brunch were about thirteen hundred
dollars the tickets were almost thirteen hundred dollars in another video with the caption overlay
update drag brunch theft MeggyMomma says lost events who runs the drag brunch has reached out to
my husband they are wanting to work things out so we are very happy about that we then get another
video on tuesday with the caption overlay tuesday afternoon update where MeggyMomma says that
they haven't heard anything new from boss since replying to that original email we did give them
you know the information and what we wanted to remedy this and they're still just sitting on
that i guess she also says that her friend who was apparently in their party heard from boss
about getting refunds for the tickets and another video captioned update from boss tuesday evening
she says they got a letter from boss saying this they're telling me that i'm inciting violence
i'm a liar but they will give me 700 back and i should take down my social media posts because
i'm inciting violence and hate towards gays she goes on to say she never meant to cause
hate or violence toward anyone in the show or any community she then seemingly begins to address a
reddit thread and based on the reddit content she's describing i'm pretty sure i found the
thread that she's talking about but again i'm not a hundred percent sure someone reshared the
tick tock video of the incident to the reddit rupaul's drag race thread and then there's a
comment that reads she took like two dollars and gave the woman twenty dollars back after the show
the woman is looking for a big payday from the senior frogs corporation because her husband is
a personal injury attorney and she's mad about getting heckled someone else followed up source
not saying i 100 believe everything that's going down but i've not seen anything saying otherwise
the original commenter responded i'm personally connected to Shannel's personal assistant who
is currently receiving death threats on her own personal instagram because of all of this and
she has given me a rundown there's more i know but since lawyers are involved i can't say more i just
hope people wait a second because from what i hear there's a lot of documented evidence from outside
these two tick tock videos to disprove this woman so MeggyMomma addresses what i think are these
comments and says this about the 20. didn't get my money back reddit post says she threw a 20 at
me she did i didn't pick it up it was on the floor that was with hey [ __ ] i don't need your money
and then this about her husband who is indeed a lawyer my husband's an attorney so he just
writes letters from his account people are like oh she must have had something planned because
you know she had legal counsel no and she ends this video saying this Shannel was a total [ __ ]
and she completely bashed me in front of everybody and stole my money and it wasn't a couple dollars
and then i was told that if i don't take it down Shannel is gonna have to make a public statement
that i won't like next we have a statement from Shannel regarding the incident and an 11-minute
video posted to her instagram on august 17th at about five in the morning central time she begins
by apologizing that the customer in question MeggyMomma did not have a good birthday and
then proceeds to explain the context of tipping at drag shows and how sometimes games are played
between the customer and the drag queen it's happened for years and shows all over queens will
grab a purse and you kind of run away with it no intention of any ill will is ever done
with it obviously with this specific guess this bit did not go over well and it apologizes
for the incident saying this we've privately apologized to her several times and now obviously
i'm apologizing to her publicly i've definitely learned from this experience and moving forward
i will never touch a guest's personal belongings again regarding what happened with the person the
money here's Shannel's side of the story at the end of the day i did not steal 700
out of this person's purse during my performance i did pick up her purse and i danced around with
it for probably 20 or 30 seconds or so i opened it up i took a couple of dollars out of it i added it
to the wad of singles that actually were already in my hand i then placed the purse back in front
of her on the table and then starts breaking down the aftermath of mega mommy and management
at senior frogs and vas events i found out that she'd claimed to one of the managers that i had
actually taken thirteen hundred dollars from her purse which i definitely did not do and apparently
her lawyer requested a total of six thousand two hundred and forty one dollars and fifteen cents in
compensatory damages and i'll let Shannel tell you what that included which included a full refund
of the tickets as well as five thousand dollars in damages in the email they reduced the amount taken
from her purse to seven to eight hundred dollars and the additional quote unquote damages included
a cabana that they had actually also reserved at the aria hotel and says the final resolution
offered to mega mommy included a personal apology from Shannel a full refund for nine tickets worth
over twelve hundred dollars and an additional seven hundred dollars which again she maintains
she did not take from her management reviewed the footage and the statements from the customers
sitting next to her party who again corroborated that it was not a large amount of money
taken from her lastly management collects and counts our tips at the end of the show
and the total amount of my tips was not even close to the 700 that she had claimed that i had stolen
from her purse and as a part of the package Shannel says she also agreed to speak with
this customer to try and learn how to do better in the future and open a dialogue however Shannel
reveals that the resolution as offered was ultimately not accepted we then see a series of
response videos from mega mommy where she says she appreciates Shannel coming online and apologizing
however she refutes points of the story as told by Shannel saying this we're going to disagree on the
amount it's just going to be what it's going to be it was a lot of cash why would i lie i don't
need your money when you say you need my money you don't need my money i don't need your money
i'm not starving on the street thank god what if i was and you took that wad of cash from my purse
and believes she is owed more than just the almost two thousand dollars from Voss we had a cabana
waiting for us that we were using for my birthday party so all the food all the drinks we have no
idea what happened to it so either the waiter took it and ate it i don't know what they do with
situations like that and in the final response video from mega mommy she says Voss is no longer
responding however they have paid her friend back now they haven't responded they paid my friend
back her money for the tickets and that's it we're not getting any more response from boss she then
ends her series of response videos saying this i never intended for me to put my family in danger
so i just please pray for me and my family thank you and this story has actually gotten so big
that nbc ran a report on it on their website and in that article they got statements from the las
vegas police department as well as Voss events las vegas police confirmed in an email that they had
received gerber's larceny report a spokeswoman said the case has not yet been assigned to a
detective but that it quote will be turned over to the bureau or detective to do a follow-up or
investigation the statement in the article from boss says a spokesperson for vasa vince
the event planning company behind the drag brunch show said that only two dollars was removed from
gerber's purse and that it was later returned to her they add gerber and her friends were
offered a full refund of 1200 plus an additional 700 despite the fact that it was never stolen
the spokesperson said the company asked gerber to take down her tick tock videos alleging that they
are inciting hates and threats toward its drag performers but gerber declined and insisted on
seven thousand dollars in compensation to remove the post and it's unclear at this point if Meggy
is going to continue with legal proceedings or even if she will follow up with the police report
that she filed but i'd love to know what y'all are thinking about this situation in the comments down
below how would you handle something like this and do you think taking this issue on the side
of Meggy mommy to social media was the correct way to approach the problem and that's what i've
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