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From Twitter blowups to podcast callouts, these Drag Race feuds proved the drama doesn’t always stay in the werk room. We’re diving into the queens whose rivalries spilled beyond the competition and kept going off-camera. From shady interviews and deleted posts to social media receipts and reunion tension, these clashes got messy fast. Which backstage beef was the most shocking?
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00:00mistress isabel pass brooks why do you pass and there you go welcome to ms mojo and today we're
00:10looking at the most heated drag race feuds that spilled beyond the show and into social media
00:15podcasts and interviews girl there's a recording there is a recording out there of of this that's
00:21why she got fired that's why she got fired jay jolie and mimi i'm first some drag race feuds
00:28stay shady this one became a full-on twitter apocalypse if you come for me then you'll see
00:33a whole new side that you wouldn't have ever imagined honey let the cookie crumble back in
00:372013 tensions exploded after mimi i'm first introduced jay jolie at a logo nyc pride event
00:43in a way jade reportedly found disrespectful jade then took to twitter mocking mimi's comedy and
00:49telling her to quote press play implying she relied too heavily on lip syncing mimi retaliated with
00:55crude remarks referencing jade's past adult entertainment work while jade branded her
01:00a discount delta work there's funny and there's just like blunt rudeness can you not take it is
01:05that why oh honey i can take it you're just like so immature it's just really aggravating things
01:11somehow became even messier when mimi posted screenshots bragging about having more twitter
01:15followers yes really the feud spiraled so publicly that judge michelle visage had to step in to gather
01:22the girls together this is very much my personality kind of like taste the crazy rainbow kind of girl
01:27what does the rainbow taste like butterflies and unicorns yeah lisa frank all that good stuff
01:32you're just a cute little thing aren't you cute little thing i need you up one bite
01:37nina bonina brown and evie oddly what began as a debate about drag aesthetics quickly turned
01:43deeply personal in 2020 nina bonina brown criticized queens who perform with beards
01:48arguing that it reflected quote lazy drag for those of y'all that remember
01:53i pretty much said in my opinion that i find bearded queens to be lazy i'm gonna say it again
02:00like you can get mad you can sue me i don't care but like it's just my opinion the comments
02:05drew
02:05backlash from several performers including chicago icon lucy stool and season 11 winner evie oddly
02:11evie pointed out the irony of nina criticizing unconventional drag while having famously competed
02:16dressed as everything from fruit to rodents my runway look is unique to who i am and what i do
02:22a lot of these bitches are just so boring and it's because they're not taking any risks
02:27specifically ariel like you're going to get red if all of your runways look the same
02:32and guess what girl they do nina then doubled down in a lengthy video response where she told evie to
02:39quote go rest them bones a comment many fans interpreted as mocking evie's ehlers-danlos syndrome
02:45i had your back like i literally have your back but you're like over here like trying to like
02:48jump on the let's hate nina um bandwagon so you can look good in the public eye because you're
02:54fighting for bearded queens like girl good for you you're gonna go somewhere and rest them bones
02:59and leave me alone the two have shown no signs of reconciliation since vicky vivacious and banksy
03:05and today we'll be teaching you about love and chucking away the rule book oh yes
03:17if this is how it starts how the hell is it gonna finish during the rupaul's disaster class challenge
03:23on series 5 of drag race uk all three members of the love team received negative critiques from the
03:28judges however two-thirds of the team believed the critiques were unfair vicky vivacious and carmel
03:34suggested that banksy being the moderator bore most of the responsibility for the team's failure
03:39i did have concerns with who was the mediator of our group
03:46not that banksy did a bad job it's just that i just know that i could have brought us all
03:52together
03:52more and as a group and i just wish that i'd voiced my opinion banksy clearly felt stunned back in
03:58the workroom emotions boiled over when vicky insisted they had not thrown her under the bus
04:03banksy disagreed strongly telling the pair off before storming away i just feel like i can't have
04:09made that up it felt so strong we were really collaborating and it feels like that you have
04:16now brought this in as a scapegoat to say i didn't do well because me and it's not fair after
04:21her
04:22elimination vicky admitted in interviews that she and banksy simply do not click outside the show either
04:27apparently the polite hello at drag gigs is about as warm as this relationship gets it's done in
04:33the sense that we don't really speak you know we say hi how are you but you know we don't
04:39go to
04:39coffee we don't speak and it's it's the same with anything really we can we can appreciate each other
04:44we can respect each other's drag we can respect each other as as humans but we don't need to go
04:48for
04:49coffee and be friends nelenia and queen kong i see nelly i see gala i go for gala oh my
04:55god nelenia
04:56i wanted to keep her at arm's length so effing annoying i'm alone everyone is in a couple except
05:03me again the inaugural season of rupaul's drag race global all-stars started like an international
05:10sisterhood and ended looking more like a diplomatic crisis tensions escalated when viewers accused
05:16queen kong and kitty scott claus of repeatedly targeting italian queen nelenia the makeover episode
05:21pushed things over the edge after queen heavily criticized nelenia's work despite nelenia winning
05:26the challenge but i don't see the family resemblance just being completely honest i literally thought
05:30you guys were going to be in the bottom i was so gagged when they were like oh my god
05:34they were just
05:34talking about the dresses the whole time i don't mean to be a bitch but i was just like am
05:39i looking
05:39at the same thing after the episode aired nelenia alleged during a live stream that she felt picked
05:45on by queen and even asked production to disqualify her queen strongly denied the accusations arguing she
05:51had simply expressed honest opinions she also claimed nelenia made negative comments that upset soa
05:57demuse during filming even after the finale aired neither queen appeared interested in signing a peace
06:02finally you can say whatever you want but baby the win is mine the ten thousand dollar is mine
06:10and it's not yours bye monet exchange and the vixen i'm just here to fight
06:19is she mad y'all this feud hit especially hard because both queens have been outspoken voices within
06:25the black drag community in 2021 the vixen publicly suggested that monet exchange and bob the drag queen
06:32were too eager to appease white audiences and world of wonder monet reportedly responded during a
06:38patreon exclusive discussion by accusing the vixen of weaponizing race and spreading misinformation
06:43so you're not taking any opinions you're like i'm just making decisions well i trust my judgment
06:48all right the vixen wants things that her way only if our team is going down you are the captain
06:54of
06:55the ship girl you're gonna go down if we sink so get ready honey the vixen later claimed that during
07:00gigs she witnessed monet heaping compliments on blonde blue-eyed white performers while ignoring
07:05black ones entirely monet dismissed the accusations outright calling the vixen quote delusional the
07:11disagreement spiraled into a barrage of deleted tweets and fan debates across social media while
07:17the public sparring eventually cooled down there's little indication either queen is interested in
07:22becoming besties anytime soon i came into the competition saying that i came to fight never once in
07:28this competition did i start a fight wait is that true it looked like you were instigating things
07:33and even what did i instigate well this this thing between miss cracker and it's not instigating to
07:38tell someone the truth willem and mimi i'm first if there's one thing willem never does it's quietly
07:44dislike somebody i'll say send her home i'm cool and what's the reason to send me home because i read
07:49you and i tell you how it is no i just don't think you like me and i don't think
07:52you should have to deal
07:53with me then you go home the ceremoniously disqualified season four queen has repeatedly
07:58blasted mimi i'm first in interviews and podcasts particularly when recounting their experiences
08:03together on the haters roast tour according to willem mimi struggled badly with the harsh comedy
08:08environment allegedly crying backstage and threatening to leave the tour unless specific
08:13jokes about her stopped people are attacking me and it's just completely immature childish shenanigans
08:18these people should be ashamed of themselves i'm done even beyond that incident willem has gone
08:24on record saying that mimi's worst traits surface under pressure and that the sentiment is shared
08:29among other queens who have found working alongside mimi to be genuinely difficult this is why people
08:34don't like her you know because when when the pressure is on the worst comes out in some people
08:41and i guess mimi's got a lot of pressure on her because she's always the worst
08:46sasha colby and mistress isabel brooks i was laughing it's because i think y'all were taking
08:51it very serious so for me i was laughing because it really wasn't a big deal to me right but
08:56you
08:56realize how patronizing that is when you laugh at people when we're all trying to figure out like
09:00a common solution i don't appreciate sasha trying to utilize every moment to be a teaching moment for
09:07us as if she is f***ing dumbledore or something the pink bracket on all stars 10 served the drama that
09:13the fans were hungry for after mistress isabel brooks and georgias strategically deceived carrie
09:18colby and nicole page brooks into handing over their points carrie nicole and tina burner plotted
09:23revenge they decided to withhold their points to block mistress from reaching the merger mistress
09:28outmaneuvered them however passing her point to lydia b collins and securing her spot in the
09:33semifinals i did tell carrie i was gonna give her my point and i do think she did very well
09:37this
09:38challenge however i knew she was gonna be a fake to not give me her point
09:44so i gave my point to lydia the fallout extended beyond the competition when carrie's drag mother
09:49season 15 winner sasha colby reportedly blocked mistress on social media mistress also confirmed
09:55they had mutually blocked each other sasha if you're watching i do love you and i hope that you
09:59could forgive me or at least you know we'll come to an understanding go to lunch have some lunch
10:04for your lunch you know we're both we're both on our skinny like lifestyle you're a juicer so let's
10:09get some juice although carrie and mistress appear considerably cooler now the bridge between sasha
10:14and mistress is still very much burned mistress isabel pass brooks why do you pass
10:24and there you go jade jolie and trinity the tuck most fans didn't even know of this drag beef until
10:30trinity the tuck woke up went on the sibling rivalry podcast and chose violence who else do
10:35not like um jay jolie um i remember that drama because she spit on somebody in their face
10:44and called them fat um and there's a record like it was a fact that this happened girl there's a
10:50recording trinity revealed that her dislike for jay jolie stemmed from an incident at a gig where
10:54jade allegedly spat in someone's face apparently this stunt got jade fired from the nightclub where
11:00she worked she also accused jade of disrespectful behavior and picking on trinity's drag daughter
11:05there was also some drama she was just really mean to my drag daughter that was on cast jade didn't
11:10take kindly to any of it after the story circulated she fired back on twitter stating she'd like to
11:15slap trinity in the face not much has been said about their feud since then but we live for this
11:21kind of unprompted drama it would just hurt your feelings why would i hurt my feelings why would i come
11:25and tell you that there was no reason to you wouldn't have cared anyway as a friend you wouldn't
11:30have cared i wouldn't come and tell you it was after the fact irene the alien and arrietty this drag
11:34mother-daughter fallout escalated with shocking speed when arrietty appeared on rupaul's drag race
11:39season 17 she proudly touted her connection to irene the alien my drag mom is irene the alien
11:45war yes yes do you plan on outlasting her i don't like this game but by the time irene returned
11:55for
11:55all stars 10 the relationship had completely collapsed irene first hinted at tension during
12:01a roscoe's viewing party before discussing it further on mistress isabel brooks's youtube series
12:05how would you describe your situation your relationship with arrietty because that was
12:09or is your daughter not any longer that that i okay sister once your daughter always a daughter we
12:14all have those kids we want to she's that's not no is it do you think it could be saved
12:19no
12:19arrietty responded online with a series of explosive allegations involving money disputes
12:24racist remarks and inappropriate behavior fans immediately demanded evidence which never
12:30materialized the backlash became so intense that arrietty deleted the tweets and issued a lengthy
12:35apology statement even after the public retraction though the damage appeared irreversible
12:40their once close drag family bond now seems completely beyond repair i never forgive someone
12:47who f***s with my money my character or my man i can't even argue with that f*** that b***h no
12:54shade
12:54arrietty you f***ing tried it b***h you yuck mouth hoe she truly tried it mistress isabel brooks and
13:01willem mistress may thrive on stirring the pot but even she seemed surprised by how intensely willem
13:06came for her during all stars 10 girls don't like her there's a reason she was kicked out of the
13:10group
13:10chat for season 15 this is true it is throughout the season willem repeatedly criticized mistress on
13:18podcasts and at roscoe's viewing parties even claiming many queens in the drag scene disliked her
13:23personally mistress answered the accusations with a lengthy youtube expose accusing willem of clout
13:29chasing and unsuccessfully begging to collaborate with her online but i honestly feel for you you went
13:35from getting millions of views on your videos 12 years ago to your most recent content averaging
13:39about 10k views per upload that has to sting but just because you're on a decline doesn't mean i
13:45should be what you're grasping at for relevancy willem fired back almost immediately insisting
13:49mistress was merely trying to distract viewers from backlash surrounding her behavior on the show
13:53she got on drag race because clearly she wanted attention or to elevate her career for whatever
13:59reason the reason we all go on and now she's getting the attention she doesn't like some of it
14:04clearly but i didn't like any of it either and you know what i did i minded my business
14:08the two queens were later booked as guests on the same roscoe's viewing party episode making for an
14:14undeniably awkward and deeply watchable confrontation kimora amor and adriana during the second season of
14:21canada's drag race kimora amor and adriana never really had any on-camera conflicts the first indication
14:28of tension between the two came during the roast when kimora made jokes about adriana that were
14:32seen as overly mean adriana do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth no see you
14:40suck that was mean however after the season ended things seemed to escalate rather quickly
14:48kimora reportedly suspected adriana of sabotaging her and other queens gigs and she accused adriana's
14:54partner of trash talking her behind her back and saying that oh no no no i was stopping people's
15:01bags and i was out there um trashing adriana and everything else it all came to a head during the
15:09bring back my girls reunion special where kimora claimed adriana had told her manager she felt
15:13threatened by her however adriana denied this stating that she only requested to be seated far
15:19from kimora because she simply didn't like her because what you did was shady and underhanded
15:23and i'm telling you what you do behind people's backs will come to light but i'm going to continue
15:28to read you to film tamisha iman and monet exchange when she said tamisha iman is coming for you
15:36it appears the legendary queen was talking about monet exchange
15:47during the airing of drag race season 13 monet reviewed the show with bob the drag queen on
15:52their podcast sibling rivalry while bob generally praised tamisha's drag monet was more critical
15:57which led to a running joke that monet hated her yes yes yes i hate it from the neck up
16:04and from the
16:04ankles down everything in the middle i'm into it but the neck up ankles i'm like no why them white
16:09shoes
16:09ill but tamisha did not find this funny she reportedly blocked monet on all social media
16:15platforms released a lengthy instagram video calling her out and teased a new show where she
16:20would read monet for filth but the way i am going to read you all on tuesday i'm going to
16:27show you why
16:27i have lasted in this industry 30 years although tamisha never delivered on that promise both queens
16:34seem to have kept their distance and remain on unfriendly terms luxe noir london and lucy laduca
16:40you know lucy i'm sure nobody's ever told you this but you have really nice teeth thank you how do
16:47you
16:47keep them so white i whiten them oh my god i didn't think you could get any whiter the question
16:53who should
16:54go home tonight has sparked some unforgettable moments on drag race but few hit as hard as season 15
17:00when it was her turn to answer luxe noir london complimented every queen's drag except one she
17:06called lucy laduca style generic and used that to justify choosing her to be eliminated lucy's drag
17:12i would have to say for a lack of better word is a little on the more generic side
17:18everybody else on this lineup brings something a little different and unique the tension between
17:23them had been simmering all season and this moment brought it to a full boil luxe didn't get her
17:29way that night but she eventually sent lucy home the next week still her shady critique clearly left
17:34a mark lucy brought it up again during the reunion saying the comments really hurt her judging by the
17:40cold vibe between them that beef is far from squashed it would have hurt enough if you just
17:44called me generic it really hurt that you went down the line and said this is the reason why everyone
17:51here is a star except for her a mandatory meeting and plain jane from the very first moment a mandatory
17:57meeting and plain jane locked eyes on season 16 it was immediately clear that they could not stand
18:02each other i think amanda's drag looked hideous i'm so sorry to the drag race audience for having
18:09to witness such a goblin plain had a lot of opinions about amanda's drag aesthetic and she did not
18:15hesitate to dish them out whether amanda asked or not as we get to know each other and i hope
18:20we do
18:21i hope that you're able to sort of sway my opinion on how you've been looking which is not very
18:27great
18:28this made for compelling television but it visibly upset amanda who just wanted to be left alone
18:33the apparent beef between the two queens carried over after the show as they appeared to take repeated
18:38jabs at each other on social media even at the bring back my girls reunion it was obvious that
18:43although they had attempted to resolve their issues it may not have yielded the most successful results
18:48as amanda as amanda told me you know we are co-workers and i think that we can behave cordially
18:56in a cordial manner in a professional environment such as this one in 2026 plain invited amanda onto
19:02her podcast kudos for spilling where they attempted to reach a mandatory truce eureka and the vixen
19:09the vixen made a bold entrance on season 10 with the line i'm just here to fight and she certainly
19:15lived up to it her biggest clash came with eureka who the vixen claimed constantly pushed her buttons
19:20in an effort to get a reaction from her i just i'm getting tired of hearing you talk honestly can
19:24i go
19:24smoke
19:28if you need to go smoke just say that you didn't have i didn't even argue their feud carried on
19:34throughout the season and reached a boiling point during the explosive reunion you poked at me until
19:39you got me upset enough to make you look like the victim no my decision was never to no that's
19:45what
19:45happened no i never said attack there's a camera since then the two haven't shared much if any screen
19:51time but the animosity still persists when asked about their relationship on hey queen the vixen
19:57revealed she had blocked eureka and preferred to keep her distance and i realized that she had unblocked
20:02me so i blocked her because we don't need that negativity in 2019 so i am good with being as
20:10far
20:10away from her eureka later appeared on the same show and echoed those sentiments apparently not
20:15getting along might be the one thing they actually do agree on elliot with two t's and candy muse
20:21season 13 queen elliot with two t's stirred up controversy in 2021 after describing eventual winner
20:28simone's drag as quote black girl magic without being quote aggressive she is in a word black girl
20:35magic yeah that is that is what she brought she felt that that should be her message and it was
20:42but she did it so elegantly though it wasn't aggressive every attempt she made to explain
20:48herself only seemed to dig the hole deeper in response fellow contestant candy muse accused elliot of
20:53using racial microaggressions while filming and refusing to accept correction although
20:58the controversy eventually died down it was resurrected in 2024 when elliot gave an interview
21:03to share her side of the story because what i compared it to was like how she's very subdued
21:08and very just feminine and beautiful and people took it as like the angry black woman shortly after it
21:16aired candy criticized elliot for avoiding accountability and making herself the victim she also released
21:22screenshots allegedly showing that elliot left the season 13 group chat after being called out and then
21:27blocked candy on social media three years later you want to come and do an interview and talk about
21:38king tyra and tatiana he may have snatched the crown in season two but king tyra didn't do so
21:44without ruffling a few feathers along the way perhaps his biggest foe was tatiana who famously called out
21:49tyra's allegedly rude behavior right in front of the judges you really shouldn't play the victim it doesn't
21:54suit you you don't do it well i was not doing that to make anyone upset or like make anyone
22:00unfocused but
22:01their feud continued long after the season ended in 2018 tyra caused an uproar online after making
22:08threats against tatiana on social media and hinting at blowing up rupaul's dragcon la these comments
22:13ultimately got him banned from the event you know i know a couple days ago it's a little drama but
22:17i'm
22:18really trying my hardest to clean it up and she's like as long as your face is in on the
22:23paper then
22:24you're doing an awesome job tatiana has since refrained from directly addressing tyra but in 2025
22:31she seemed to weigh in on tyra's controversial comments following the death of the vivian saying that
22:36he's quote become even worse raja gemini and pearl in season seven pearl was criticized for her
22:43supposedly disinterested or shall we say floss a da energy you were a cheerleading coach and you were
22:50like lifeless and borderline dead that perception followed her beyond the show as she reportedly began
22:57missing scheduled appearances in june 2015 after skipping two events and traveling to paris causing
23:04several u.s gigs to be canceled or postponed season three winner raja called her out on facebook i think
23:09i
23:09gave her my words of wisdom and that any advice that i could give her before she you know be
23:14just
23:15just right as the season was beginning and raja urged pearl to take drag seriously and treat it like
23:20a real profession by showing up on time in response pearl released a lengthy facebook post defending
23:26herself and accusing raja of hypocrisy alleging that she once covered a gig for raja after she falsely
23:32claimed her passport was stolen although this happened years ago it doesn't look like raja and pearl have
23:37kissed and made up i think and like in her mind she was discrediting like who i was what i
23:44had done
23:45and what i had been through farah moan and trinity the tuck if you stay or you go you've got
23:52to stop
23:53crying you've got to pull it together both queens competed on season nine and all stars four but that
23:59doesn't mean they're besties the feud between farah moan and trinity the tuck started in 2021 when farah
24:05criticized trinity on twitter for hosting a brunch show during the pandemic trinity fired back telling
24:11farah to stay out of her business unless she planned to pay her bills fast forward to 2024 and trinity
24:16name-dropped farah during an appearance on the sibling rivalry podcast girl she tried to get all
24:22of her fans to attack me because i did a show during kobe the brunch show the brunch show outside
24:28with a mask this time around farah shot back with some serious accusations she alleged that trinity had
24:35gone on a transphobic rant during a dinner they both shared with farah's then boyfriend a trans man
24:41trinity quickly shut down these accusations claiming that farah was misremembering the incident and
24:46embellishing her account and again this was a long time ago so i don't fault her for not remembering details
24:51but what she said that i said was not anything i didn't say anything to do that that was somebody
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25:32are real the first episode of all stars 5 revealed a long-standing feud between las vegas queens derek
25:38barry and india farrah their beef apparently began when india was dropped from a nightclub gig that
25:43ultimately went to derek's partner and fellow drag queen nebraska according to derek india later made
25:48disparaging remarks about nebraska including describing her as a quote pig in a wig why would
25:54i be happy for someone that does a number that disrespects me and puts my name that was after
25:58you called her a pig in a wig it was not to her the moment made for an explosive start
26:05to the season
26:06although it was abruptly cut short by derek's elimination at the end of the same episode however
26:11the conflict between the two does not seem to have ended as derek made it clear in her watch a
26:16pack an
26:16interview that she and india are still far from clearing the air she spoke out against the show
26:21which i don't agree with she also quit drag at one point which i do agree with yeah so you
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