Drag Race Down Under star Max Drag Queen opens up about grieving the death of her mother on the national Stan series - following her shock elimination

Drag Race Down Under star Max Drag Queen has opened up about how 'difficult' it was to grieve the death of her mother on such a public stage. 

The Melbourne Queen, 25, who spoke with Daily Mail Australia following her elimination on Friday, lost her mother just a month before filming on the Stan series began.

Breaking down in tears over the grief during episode three, Max said it was a 'heavy' feeling going through the mourning process while on a publicised drag competition. 

'It's definitely a unique experience that I found myself in,' she said.

'It's something that I don't think a lot of people necessarily factor in when considering the preparation work for Drag Race.

'I don't think they think about it when obviously they don't show us going back to our hotel rooms at night. They don't show us in the low moments.'

She added: 'They don't think about, even in story world past episode three where I talk about it, how that grief might still be impacting that person. 

'It's really heavy. Navigating it was difficult.' 

Max went on to say she was 'very grateful' to have fellow queen Vybe by her side 'who was someone who held my hand throughout the entirety of Snatch Game'. 

As for episode three, where producers spotlighted the 'story' of Max's grief when she broke down in tears while preparing for the runway, Max said she did decide to watch it back.

'I was pre-warned that it might be difficult to watch this specific episode back. It's been hard to watch all of [the season] back,' she said.

'I have this very unique space where I'm watching how I was grieving and the person I was whilst I was grieving... It's sad. It's sad, ultimately.'

To this day, Max said she still wonders if it was the right decision to go on Drag Race Down Under so soon after her mother's death.

'I still don't really have the answer to if I should have done it or not. I will probably never have the answer to know if this was the right time for me to do it or not,' she said.

'I guess it is just something, unfortunately, that I have to make peace with. I considered quitting and self-eliminating a few times.

'But I had a very good cast that reminded me to keep going and that they would be there with me. God, I could cry just thinking about the love those girls gave me.' 

Max was sent home on Friday night during episode six after she failed to impress the judges during the acting Maxi Challenge.

While she killed it on the runway with her drenched Liquid Dreams look, Max had trouble coming out of her shell during the soap opera challenge Platypussies on Fire.

Judges Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson, as well as guest judges Isis Avis Loren and Matt Okine, all agreed Max was a '10/10 on the runway'. 

However, when it came to the Maxi Challenge, comedian Rhys, 34, said Max had a tendency to 'confuse funny with loud', adding that her performance was 'not a slam dunk'. 

'It was very one note. There has to be levels,' host Michelle, 56, agreed.

'I wanted to see you respond to what Rhys was giving you in a different way, so you could give us those different sides of Max the actress.'

Max's failure to impress the judges meant she was asked to lip sync for her life for the second week in a row, this time against Nikita Iman.

Last week, Max sent home Brenda Bressed when they landed in the bottom two together.