After Controversy, 'Drag Race' Star Robbie Turner Explains Posting About 'Fatal Car Crash'

"RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 8 star Robbie Turner is explaining herself after questions were raised when she tweeted about being involved in a fatal car accident in Seattle earlier this month.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Friday, Turner offered an explanation about her April 15 tweets in which she claimed a drunk driver hit the car she was riding in, killing her Uber driver, on her way home from working at local bar Queer/Bar. Her tweets made headlines after it was discovered that her story did not match up with statements from the Seattle Police Department and Uber - both said neither had records of driver-related deaths on the evening of April 14.

Speaking with EW, Turner said she "woke up with bruises on my body, and I woke up with a headache, so my initial reaction was I thought I had a concussion."

"I was worried because I was alone... I wasn't going to be seeing anyone for a few days. I usually try to rest and sit still after a weekend of shows. And I more or less woke up worried that I had a concussion, [so I] made a scheduled post for when people would be waking up Sunday morning..." she went on to say. "I was already falling asleep and was panicking... I did wake up with very large bruises and a headache, and I've always had this irrational fear of concussions."

When asked what made her think she was in a car accident, the performer said she spent "days of poking around and sleuthing to figure out everything I had gone through..."

"...[D]ays later I saw footage of me coming home, getting out of a car, and getting into my apartment okay," Turner told EW.

EW asked Turner to clarify her statement. The "Drag Race" contestant said she believes her drink was drugged and that she also fell in the shower.

"I didn't drink that much that night... I went home immediately after [being out]," Turner said. "I don't 100 percent remember leaving, and I do not remember coming home at all. At the time that I came home, I had this vivid dream and thought it was 100 percent real, especially once I woke up and had large contusions on my thighs, shoulder, and my head was pounding."

Later on in the interview Turner, suggests she had a "mild mental break" and was "triggered by slipping in the shower and being slipped something [in my drink.]

After doing my own sleuthing I went to the hospital and got an affirmation that I had not been seen on Sunday like I thought I had, which was horrifying and embarrassing... And so I spent the next few days resting and trying to find out [what happened] from the police and the hospital and everything was turning up into a weird dead end and almost becoming comical to the professionals that I was seeing. I thought I was losing my mind.... A friend of mine who is a therapist came over and told me that I should get a psych evaluation for the whole scenario, so I spent the next few days after that speaking to crisis counselors, and when I was finally seen by a psychiatrist, I talked to them about everything that has been going on, even prior to the accident, because it's just been kind of a nightmare in my personal life. There have been many deaths and a lot of loss, and the social worker and psychiatrist [said] it sounds more like I had a mild mental break, and it was triggered by slipping in the shower and being slipped something [in my drink].

Turner later took to social media to open up about the incident, saying she regrets making her original posts about the car crash.

"I don't remember much of that night, including leaving my place of employment. I do recall waking up bruised, disoriented, sore, and with an extremely vivid recollection of events that had, to my mind, absolutely occurred," she wrote. "It is clear to me that they did not, in fact, happen."

She added that after consulting with medical and health professionals that she is "taking a break from work and social media to spend more time with family and practice some important self-care."

"In addition, I apologize to Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's CEO, for naming a company I respect in such a negative public way," Turner continued. "That's not who I am, but it's what I did, and I am sorry for it. I also extend my apologies to Queer Bar, as well as anyone who may have felt that my original post lacked sensitivity. For that I am also regretful.

"I appreciate the continued support of my fans and respect for my privacy during this time," she concluded her post. "I hope to take better care of myself, learn from this painful season and nourish what brought me joy about my art to begin with."

Click here to read Turner's full interview with EW and check out her post below.