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Dive into the world of fierce rivalries and backstage drama as we unpack the intense conflicts surrounding one of drag culture’s most outspoken stars. From stolen dresses and shocking allegations to clashing personalities and fiery public callouts, these battles reveal just how high the stakes can get in the Drag Race universe and beyond. Ready for the ultimate tea on drag feuds? Let’s spill it all.
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00:00Now that you've got what you wanted and got your feature on the channel, hopefully you can stop DMing me your video ideas.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're delving into the beefs and grudges of one of the Drag Race universe's most controversial figures, Willem.
00:12And what's your reason to send me home? Because I read you and I tell you how it is?
00:16I just don't think you like me and I don't think you should have to deal with me.
00:20Bob the Drag Queen.
00:21Quite possibly one of the top five most controversial queens in the history of RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:27Oh, for sure.
00:28First queen to ever get eliminated, her name was Willem Belli.
00:30In 2023, Drag Race winners Bob and Monet X Change recorded a series of episodes about all their fellow contestants.
00:38Bob the Drag Queen brought up an instance when Willem performed a movie role in blackface.
00:42Willem has also done some pretty offensive things in her career, which she has publicly acknowledged.
00:47I mean, Willem's done it all from literal blackface to...
00:54While Willem was contrite and apologetic, she expressed some confusion and hurt about Bob's casual mention of it.
01:00Bob took this in stride.
01:01However, Bob also expressed some confusion of her own, as he was just stating the facts.
01:06Apparently, the last queen who we mentioned that she got into trouble with blackface, I don't know what Willem said, but Willem said something.
01:12And I was like, I don't know what she said, but I guess she's mad at me or something.
01:15The two seem to be friends in spite of this, and might just share the trait of talking openly about things like this.
01:21The fan who stole her dress.
01:23You don't even have to know someone's name to have beef.
01:25I have nothing bad to say about the person, but there's so many better things to wonder about than what makes her tick.
01:38Willem's social media followers were treated to a feast of drama when she took to Instagram to flame a so-called fan at a 2018 gig.
01:45Willem posted a picture of a woman in the crowd, accusing her of stealing a dress right off her body.
01:51Willem continued posting pictures of the stolen dress, and even reposted a picture of a social media profile that might have belonged to the woman who stuffed the stolen item in her bag.
02:00Days later, the dress was home safe and sound.
02:02Ilona Verley
02:03Willem Belli is the kind of drag queen you do not come for without seriously considering the consequences.
02:09Canada's Drag Race contestant Ilona Verley found that one out the hard way.
02:12You're the only one with an opinion.
02:15You're the only one going through anything.
02:18Eat s***.
02:19When an Instagram follower asked her what meeting RuPaul was like, Ilona launched into a story about how rude Willem was backstage at a show.
02:26She alleged that the season 4 queen threw Ilona's powder across the room when she offered it to her.
02:31Literally, your negative energy is, like, so much. I'm sitting here right now, and I literally can feel it.
02:35Willem doesn't take an allegation like this lying down.
02:38She went back in her archives and found plenty of information that contradicted Ilona's version of events.
02:43I never have to powder. I've been on Accutane three times. I don't powder at the club.
02:47I remember what I was wearing that night. It was like a purple Marco Marco dress with, like, sunglasses.
02:52Why would I be powdering if I had sunglasses on?
02:54She offered to talk it out with Ilona on her Race Chaser podcast with Alaska, but that invitation seems to have gone unanswered.
03:01Drag Con
03:01The annual convention created and organized by World of Wonder is a celebration of Drag Race.
03:07It's no wonder they wouldn't want Willem to attend.
03:09Between her outspokenness about behind-the-scenes drama and her very public feud with RuPaul,
03:14she's definitely not the organizer's favorite person.
03:16I was mad because, like, when I step into Drag Con, it's like those kids going through the closet in Narnia.
03:21We become kings and queens. We're respected there.
03:23So when she showed up in the line for RuPaul's meet-and-greet, it wasn't gonna go over well.
03:28Willem explained how she was tailed around the convention center before being escorted out.
03:32My police escort out of Drag Con.
03:36Legend.
03:37Sitting alone.
03:39At Drag Con booth.
03:40She even threw in a jab about how some of the queens at the event were cheated out of merch sales by not being given the Wi-Fi access they paid for.
03:48I don't think I need to kowtow to them anymore because I don't want any of the gigs that they have.
03:53Everything that they do in their basement, I can also do.
03:57Fifi O'Hara
03:57Here's a feud that began during Willem's controversial run on Drag Race.
04:01Throughout season four, she and runner-up Fifi O'Hara often traded insults during Untucked.
04:06Well, to be fair, it was mostly Fifi coming after Willem for some perceived elitism.
04:11Willem, you've already said that you've been on all these TV shows and everything, so why are you here doing this?
04:21I'm doing it because I'm a drag queen and I need the stamp of approval from RuPaul to be a superstar.
04:25Although it often felt rather one-sided, Fifi grew tired of Willem's attitude and didn't care who knew it.
04:30These two served up some of the season's tensest arguments.
04:33You should not be here!
04:36Your tone seems very pointed right now.
04:40It's hard to say if their tension carried on after Drag Race.
04:43However, it seems like it lasted some time after their season,
04:46as Willem says she was removed from the first All-Stars cast when Fifi couldn't appear alongside her.
04:51That girl that didn't pass her background check was also the one I probably would have had the most stakes with,
04:55from what everybody said.
04:57Fifi.
04:58So once it was found out she couldn't do Drag U,
05:01All-Stars was after Drag U, so she definitely couldn't do that one.
05:04So they canceled me.
05:05Detox and Vicky Vox
05:07Classic Drag Race fans may have gotten their first taste of Season 5 contestant Detox when she was a part of DWV,
05:13a parody girl group made up of her, Willem, and Vicky Vox.
05:16But the trio broke up after only a few years.
05:29Redditors realized the group was making shady posts about each other.
05:32A dispute that began between Willem and Vicky Vox left Detox in the middle as Peacemaker.
05:37And I wasn't the one who was the most pissed off.
05:39I was kind of the middleman in the whole situation, even though there were things that were upsetting to me as well.
05:44However, things devolved to the point where Willem took credit for the group's complete creative direction.
05:50Years later, it seems the relationship between the former groupmates has improved.
05:54I don't want to say anything bad about either of them, but I'll defend myself to a degree, hopefully.
05:59And if that's entertaining at the same time for other people to read, that's fine.
06:03But I'm not trying to milk it at all.
06:05Willem's disqualification from season four is still baffling to this day.
06:11She insists the reason she gave at the reunion was actually doctored up by the production company.
06:16So in other words, you were receiving conjugal visits from your husband,
06:20and unfortunately, that was a violation of the rules.
06:23Visiting makes it sound like we were visiting, and there wasn't no talking.
06:26For years, Willem has consistently called out the show for repeated offenses.
06:30These issues include favoritism toward eventual winner Sharon Needles,
06:34a measly food budget for the cast, and being denied items the queens asked for while they were in sequester.
06:39I stole. I, um, what else did I do? I got everybody high and drunk all the time.
06:48In the years since, she has used her podcast with Alaska, Race Chaser,
06:52to continue to call out the show for its perceived manipulative editing and mistreatment of queens.
06:56My problem with them started out with them not treating other people how they would want to be treated.
07:04They treated us very poorly on set.
07:06Needless to say, we won't be seeing her on All Stars anytime soon.
07:10Acid Betty. This was the battle of the Drag Race podcasts.
07:14On an episode of the Race Chaser podcast, Willem revealed that All Stars 10 contestant Acid Betty
07:18had commissioned a paper gown for the season and had not finished paying for it.
07:22I don't know what we did wrong other than say she didn't pay her bill that she told the other girl she was going to pay,
07:29and then she blocked her when she did pay some of the money.
07:35Acid did not take that one lying down.
07:38She used her podcast with Diabetti to stage a rebuttal.
07:41She pulled receipt after receipt to show that the work originally done on the dress was not up to par.
07:45Look at the back differences. Do you see how I literally had to redo the entire back?
07:51I had to literally re-pull out everything and redo it all.
07:54It was clear Willem's reporting was lacking a lot of context.
07:58Though not surprising, if the comment sections are anything to go by,
08:02Willem didn't come off in the best light.
08:04He knew the people that I worked with.
08:05He knew all the garments and outfits that I made.
08:08He knew that I made everything that I ever wore in the past as famous Acid Betty, period.
08:13Mistress Isabel Brooks.
08:15This was like the feud to end them all.
08:17If there are two Drag Race contestants you do not want to fight,
08:21it's Willem and Mistress Isabel Brooks.
08:23Willem is a cloud chaser who is desperate for attention,
08:25and there's many things that point to this being a proven fact.
08:28I mean, we're talking about the person who lends drag to queens going on Drag Race
08:31just to make videos like Borrowed Blessings Bureau.
08:34In 2025, they turned their laser-sharp reading skills on each other.
08:38Willem commented on Mistress's lack of professionalism both at gigs and during her run on All Stars.
08:43Mistress responded with a half-hour-long YouTube diatribe
08:46parodying Willem's longtime web series The Beatdown.
08:49What really takes the cake for me is Willem claims she's never met me,
08:52which is somewhat true.
08:53She never personally met me in real life other than the time she was a fan
08:57and came to my sold-off show in LA where she walked from the bleachers
09:00and even made me turn around and pose and take a picture with her in the background.
09:03She hit back at Willem for trying to sabotage her career
09:06despite a history of Willem seeking out her friendship.
09:09It's rare you see two people who are so committed to hashing things out
09:13really going for the jugular in public.
09:15We ate it up.
09:16Mistress thinks that volume equals correctness, and it doesn't
09:20because this isn't untucked, and I told her that on the phone.
09:23She didn't like that.
09:24She's not very good at having a conversation without interrupting,
09:26which, me too, I'm not.
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09:44RuPaul
09:45You won tonight because you are a beautiful and talented queen.
09:51But it has come to my attention that you have broken the rules.
09:57At the top of Willem's list of feuds has to be the biggest diva of them all.
10:02Most of Willem's beef with RuPaul seems to have emerged after her time on the show.
10:06After all, RuPaul was nothing if not entertained by season four's biggest agitator.
10:11I want you to know that I really, really believe in you.
10:14And I actually, I thought you had a chance to go all the way.
10:18In 2018, Willem revealed that a falling out between Ru and Ru's longtime friend
10:22and collaborator Matthew Anderson rubbed her the wrong way.
10:25She detailed a scene in the street when the two got into a cursing match
10:28over Ru not visiting Anderson while he was sick.
10:31Willem seems to have joined the group of contestants
10:33whose rosy-eyed view of the host changed after being on Drag Race.
10:37I would ask her if she went to visit her friend Matthew yet
10:40because I know she hasn't seen him in a while.
10:42He used to do her hair and her makeup and her photography,
10:45her retouching, basically everything.
10:48What's your favorite Willem moment?
10:50Tell us in the comments.
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