Where Is Trading Spouces’ God Warrior Marguerite Perrin Now?

You might know her by her name, Marguerite Perrin, but you probably know her better as the “God Warrior.”

Perrin, 64, went viral 20 years ago thanks to her infamous meltdown on Trading Spouses in 2005. Perrin “traded” places with a hypnotherapist whose family dabbled in astrology and magic, and when she returned to her family, she went on an intense rant.

Perrin called the experience the “worst time of my life,” and repeated over and over again, “It was so dark-sided,” that the other family was “Not of God, not Christians,” and that the other mom “tampered in dark-sided stuff” and was “not a Christian.”

“I give it up to God, I’m a God Warrior,” she screamed in the rant. “and I don’t want someone with tainted anything in beliefs doing anything with my family!”

The woman’s rant went viral, and Perrin even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Tyra Banks Show. Her rant remains an iconic meme, but the reality icon has changed a lot over the last two decades.

Perrin appeared on the Sept. 3 episode of Very Delta with Delta Work to talk about her experience on the show and where she is now. Work, 49, described her as “the original reality star of all reality stars” and said that, as a drag queen, her rant is her “go-to” lip sync performance.

Of the rant, Perrin said, “I don’t even know where those words came from, and thank goodness it did, ’cause it [has] been a domino effect.” But she explained that what she was actually “scared of” was what was happening in her house while she was with the other family. During the nine days of filming, she had no contact with her family.

“I was very worried,” she said, noting that she “still” doesn’t like anything magical or mystical. 

“I knew someone was in my house that practiced these things. That was uncomfortable to me,” she said. She said ultimately she loves the family she traded with, but at the time, she was overwhelmed. 

“There was so much more going on behind the scenes that caused me to do that,” she said of her rant. “But you don’t necessarily see that.” She added, “It’s for ratings.” She also said she doesn’t actually remember what she said, and fans who repeat it back to her often correct her memory. 

But now, she has no regrets. “Had that all not happened like that, I would not be talking to you, Delta,” she told the drag star. 

As for her life now, Perrin said, “I’m in a good season, Delta. I think I’m in my best season, mind, body and spirit.”

Perrin said she’s used the last year to focus on “self-love.” Her husband passed away in June 2024, and she lost her daughter, Ashley, in a 2007 car crash. “That just really broke me and changed me and had me navigate into the person that I am now,” she said of Ashley’s death. 

Perrin said that was a year “of growing” as she’s focused on weight loss and owning her own dance studio. 

“I like me today,” the reality star, who’s active on Instagram and TikTok, said. “. . . And I don’t know if any other time in my life that I feel as good as I feel today.”

She said, “I like how people in the media perceive me and know me now because they really do. Because I do have a genuine heart. I love humankind. I love people. And the gay community has stood behind me and loved me and brought me through like a real, real hard time in my life, and I will never forget it.” 

Perrin told Esquire in 2019 that after Ashley’s death, the gay community stepped up for her amid her grief, even as some of her friends turned away. “The gay [community wasn’t] scared to talk about me losing Ashley and saying I’m sorry to hear about that,” she said. “I was pretending like I was happy and I was okay. They would not leave me alone. You couldn’t help but talk to them and be okay with them. The people that write those little memes and do those little things, I love that. That’s what got me out of bed after Ashley’s death.” She told Work that as a Christian, she tells gay people she meets that God “loves all of us.”

She told Work she wants the gay community to be “proud” of her “in this next season” and that she doesn’t want her God Warrior rant on her “tombstone.” She said, “I wanna be Marguerite. Just Marguerite.”