Katya Zamolodchikova is one of the most popular and richest Drag Queen who was born on May 1, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. An alumnus from Marlborough, Massachusetts, McCook graduated from Marlborough High School in 2000. He went to Boston University for one year before moving into Massachusetts College of Art and Design in which he studied the art of performance and video in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. He also studied an emphasis in psychology and then began to be fascinated by drag. The older of his brothers as well as an older sister. He has Irish origin He was raised Catholic.
On May 16 on the 16th of May, 2016 Katya was a guest at the conclusion on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 to determine who would be the new Miss Congeniality: Cynthia Lee Fontaine.
On the March 20, 2018 episode of his podcast, Whimsically Volatile, McCook described his drag hiatus in detail, saying he had suffered a psychotic break after relapsing into the use of methamphetamines. He briefly returned to live with his family in Massachusetts before entering a rehabilitation center in Arizona.
In January 2018, McCook announced a hiatus from drag for mental health reasons, and his comedy tour as Katya, “Help Me, I’m Dying”, was postponed until spring 2019. Returning to Twitter in March 2018, McCook announced that the tour would likely be renamed due to his recovery.
On the 17th of June, 2016 Katya was named part of the team for The second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars in which she finished as the runner-up, along with another contestant Detox.
