Chi Chi DeVayne, a beloved star of RuPaul’s Drag Race star, has passed away at 34.
In 2018, DeVayne — born Zavion Davenport — revealed she had been hospitalized for kidney failure and was diagnosed with scleroderma, a tissue disease that affects the kidneys, lungs, heart, and other internal organs.
“Bottling this up has had me in a state of depression,” she said at the time “… it has made me hate my appearance … and also made me stray away from the public eye, but I’m no longer hiding and living in a state of fear … I just ask you all to keep me in your prayers as I battle with this life changing illness,” she said via Pink News.
“So tomorrow they’re going to give me a biopsy on my kidneys and let me know what it is that’s making my blood pressure so high, so I just want to say that I love you guys,” she wrote on Instagram last month. “… I see you alls outpouring of love. I promise I’m gonna call y’all back I’m just still overwhelmed.”