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From shady Werk Room reads to genuine sisterhood, these former “Drag Race” rivals proved the competition doesn’t always end with the finale. Join us as we look back at unforgettable queens whose feuds turned into friendships, from iconic season clashes to later reunions, tours, and repaired bonds. Which glow-up friendship surprised you most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00This, though.
00:01Wow, what are you talking about, girl?
00:02What are you talking about?
00:03I mean, you are looking amazing.
00:06I couldn't eat after a fight.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:08And today, we're talking about Drag Race's fierce rivals
00:11who became unexpected besties.
00:13You know, people still think we hate each other.
00:15I mean, didn't we resolve everything on our season?
00:18I don't understand people.
00:21Evie Oddly and Silky Nutmeg Ganache.
00:23At the end of the day, I feel like you're putting words in my mouth
00:26and y'all still are fucking really attacking me.
00:28I told you what I said, because it's a group challenge,
00:32and I didn't want to hear the nobody else.
00:34After several seasons of relatively tame, untucked episodes,
00:38the cast of season 11 suddenly livened things up.
00:41Evie Oddly was often at the center of the dramatic spillover.
00:44Her straightforwardness and unique style of drag
00:46rubbed many of her competitors the wrong way,
00:48and Silky Nutmeg Ganache was chief among them.
00:51I don't give a damn anymore.
00:53We probably won't be free after this show.
00:55Bitch, I was in front of the first place.
00:58Because you're full of excuses,
00:59and you never actually push to hit the challenge.
01:03Their dust-ups inspired some of the season's most iconic moments.
01:06Since then, though, the pair seem to have come a long way.
01:09Evie even says she considers herself closer to Silky
01:12than many other castmates.
01:13Given their contentious and personal arguments,
01:16that is no small feat.
01:17I genuinely am closer to probably those three more than anyone else in the cast.
01:26Diabetti and Jasmine Kennedy.
01:28I'm sorry, Jasmine literally wrapped just fabric around her body with a belt.
01:35And I'm not body shaming.
01:37Whatever.
01:38It's just like so annoying when someone has a perfect physique.
01:41Diabetti's blunt critiques of her competitors
01:43landed her in hot water with them and the fans.
01:46She was especially critical of Jasmine Kennedy,
01:49whose drag just didn't excite her.
01:50After a while, the tension boiled over.
01:53I've been very honest how I feel about people,
01:55and I just thought you would do the same.
01:56I have been honest, bitch.
01:58That's your body.
01:59Whatever, you know.
02:00But I wasn't shading you on that.
02:02I was just shading you because your outfit was bad.
02:06Girl!
02:07It was exactly what season 14 needed in terms of the drama,
02:11but they've since toured together and become friends.
02:14The fact that they even speak after Jasmine's unloading on her at the reunion
02:17is kind of a miracle in itself.
02:19It's not the first time the queens have described how the competition gets the best of some people.
02:24I don't know anything about you.
02:25So we're not sisters in the sense where we're Kiki and like everybody else.
02:28I don't know about you.
02:29So when you're coming at me and not having any problem with what you're saying,
02:33that still haven't taken accountability for you, we said, it's b******.
02:36Aja and Mistress Isabel Brooks.
02:38I'm just so grateful to be here,
02:40and I want to thank each and every one of you for your amazing words.
02:42They really encouraged me.
02:43Girl, it was the first time you were quiet for once.
02:45It was really scary.
02:47Let me give you all the truth.
02:48When I get actually mad, that's when I shut up
02:50because that's when I say something that I'm going to regret
02:52or I'm going to hurt someone's feelings.
02:54Once she realized the season wasn't going her way,
02:57you could start to see Mistress Isabel Brooks pivot
02:59from trying to win the crown to just making good TV.
03:01One of her targets was frontrunner Aja.
03:04What's so funny?
03:05Go keep talking.
03:06I'm listening.
03:09Um.
03:15Ooh, Mistress, you in danger, girl.
03:17Their most infamous moment was when Mistress decided to laugh
03:20right in Aja's face in the workroom.
03:22If anything, it shows a lot of growth on Aja's part.
03:26You really think that you're doing something big,
03:27but all you're doing is making yourself look really small right now.
03:30How?
03:30I'm not going to say nothing.
03:32Just pay it.
03:33Okay.
03:34Most definitely.
03:35But it's clear that whatever animosity may have been there
03:38was either put on for the cameras or easy to forget.
03:41As rotted as their little spat was,
03:43it didn't translate off camera.
03:45I turn around and, you know,
03:47Israel looks me right in the eyes and goes,
03:51sister, we just made some fun camera stuff.
03:54Like you said, we just made a moment on camera.
03:56And I look at her.
03:57This is my mind.
03:57And I'm like, bitch, what?
03:59Evie Oddly and Raja O'Hara.
04:01I feel the most comfortable when I am on stage living and getting my juice.
04:07Yeah, girl, but when are you going to apply that to the challenges?
04:09Because that's what's going to keep you out of the bottom.
04:11Now, I will tell you this.
04:13Don't try me right now.
04:14Every week of season 11,
04:16we were treated to some of the juiciest untucked drama
04:18since the early days of the show.
04:20Evie Oddly and Raja O'Hara's feud got particularly nasty.
04:23But most of the worst offenses were committed in Raja's confessionals,
04:27where she read Evie on a deeply personal level.
04:46Evie confronted her at the reunion, and it was uncomfortable to watch.
04:50And it was so painful to have to go back home and watch you call me ugly,
04:55watch you call me smelly, watch you call me, like, worthless, essentially,
04:59because I told you you need to focus.
05:01Like, I'm sorry.
05:02I just don't think that was the right response in the moment.
05:04However, since the show,
05:06Raja's redemption with the fans has also come with a friendship with Evie.
05:09The two patch things up almost immediately.
05:12Evie now lists Raja among her closest friends from the season.
05:15The way we fought was so much like how I fight with my sisters at home.
05:24So much of how I know she fights, like, how she grew up fighting.
05:28Derek Barry and Naomi Smalls.
05:30Although it didn't erupt until late in the season,
05:32the spat between Britney impersonator Derek Barry
05:35and fashion queen Naomi Smalls got ugly very fast.
05:38Why do you guys hate each other?
05:39Can't you guys just get along? God damn it.
05:41I do not hate Derek.
05:43I do not like his drag.
05:46This is getting intense.
05:47You don't hate me, you just hate my drag.
05:49Exactly.
05:51Yeah.
05:51It's gonna get severe up in here.
05:54As Derek started to fall behind,
05:56she lashed out at Naomi,
05:58whose star was on the rise after her early stumbles.
06:00Their feud became particularly tense in the workroom.
06:03They took aim at everything from talent to hairlines.
06:06You're not mad at it?
06:07No.
06:08Oh, cool.
06:08Not at all.
06:09Bitch, I had tough skin.
06:10It looks like it.
06:15You're really testing out that tough skin, ain't you, girl?
06:17And Derek has thin hair.
06:20However, after the season aired,
06:22Derek would go on to say that she and Naomi were best friends.
06:25It's a good thing, too,
06:26because the two are frequent co-stars
06:28of the RuPaul's Drag Race Live residency in Las Vegas.
06:32Uh, Nebraska just finished a photo shoot
06:34and wanted to meet up with us.
06:36Is that a problem?
06:38I mean, it's your math.
06:39Well, I think right now she's my woman.
06:40Never get your money, honey.
06:42We'll be here.
06:43We'll be here.
06:44Mystique and Morgan McMichaels.
06:46As soon as we saw the cast list for All Stars 11
06:49and Mystique and Morgan were in the same bracket,
06:51we all wondered the same thing.
06:53Were they gonna light it up in Untucked again?
06:55I don't give a damn, bitch.
06:57Exactly.
06:57So go fix your hair.
06:59I don't need to.
06:59Fix your mug.
07:00I don't need to fix my mug.
07:01Well, as it turns out,
07:03the pair of queens responsible
07:04for the first iconic Untucked fight
07:06have mellowed with age.
07:07You are looking amazing.
07:09I couldn't eat after our fight.
07:11When I saw my arch nemesis, Morgan McMichaels,
07:15I'm just like, oh, she got all of them fillers.
07:18But she still looked good, though.
07:19I ain't judging her.
07:20It appears that they came into All Stars
07:22with much cooler heads.
07:24In fact, they seem to have developed a mutual respect,
07:27something that definitely wasn't true
07:29when they first met over 15 years ago.
07:31Look at us.
07:32Still hate each other.
07:33I never hated you.
07:34We've chatted over the years.
07:36We're obviously sisters.
07:36That's great.
07:37But I know that we are both intense personalities.
07:40And now that we're back in the competition,
07:42it's a different animal.
07:43Bianca Del Rio and Laganja Estranja.
07:46This was a case of brutal honesty
07:48butting up against drag delusion.
07:49My name is Miss Laganja Estranja, honey, darling.
07:53Laganja, y'all no tea.
07:55Come on, Nat.
07:57Laganja, irritating, young, foolish.
08:01Bianca Del Rio's inability to hold her tongue
08:04and Laganja Estranja's heightened personality
08:06for the cameras did not mesh well.
08:08Over the season, that tension eventually spread
08:10among the cast.
08:11I believe that you've come into this competition
08:14with an act.
08:16You came in, waterworks,
08:17woe is me, woe is me, woe is me.
08:19And you're not even given a true story.
08:21So explain that to me.
08:22The culmination was an unforgettable untucked fight
08:25instigated by Bianca
08:26that led to Laganja having a full-on meltdown
08:29before her inevitable elimination.
08:31Well, how am I supposed to feel in this moment?
08:33Laganja, I didn't want to make it
08:35that everybody was attacking you.
08:36I feel very attacked.
08:38Relax, relax.
08:40Despite the waves it made,
08:42it almost seems like once the facade fell away,
08:45Bianca and Laganja became great friends.
08:47More than a decade removed,
08:49they can even poke fun at the moment of TV
08:51they made together.
08:52And last time we were on camera together,
08:53we were trapped in a small room
08:55where I had a pillow on my lap
08:56and you wouldn't even look at me.
08:58You would look at all the other contestants.
08:59That's true.
09:00And full of hate and negativity.
09:02Remember that?
09:02Well, it is hard to look at you today,
09:04but I'm still doing it.
09:05You know, I'm committed.
09:06Roxy Andrews and Jinx Monsoon.
09:08Two queens, two different styles of drag.
09:11The result is a rivalry that got uglier faster
09:14than you can say sashay away.
09:16I'm not acting when I say
09:17I'm insecure about things, though.
09:19Miss Jinx, you know exactly what I'm saying.
09:21You know what role you're putting in.
09:22I know what you're saying
09:23and I do not agree with you.
09:24It is not an act when I tell you
09:26I'm nervous about s***.
09:27That's how I feel.
09:29Underdog Jinx Monsoon
09:30wasn't so much of an underdog
09:31by the end of season five.
09:33And pageant queen Roxy Andrews
09:35could not stand it.
09:36The mind games that ensued
09:38were the stuff of legend.
09:39Girl, I'm over it.
09:40Why do I have to make up a name
09:41to who I'm doing?
09:42I'm acting like an attorney, a b***h.
09:44Why do I have to have
09:45some kind of f***ing character?
09:46Well, I'm so-and-so
09:47and I do this
09:48and I'm 80 years old.
09:49No, you're not 80 years old.
09:51You're Jinx Monsoon
09:51playing a character.
09:52Yet by the time the season aired,
09:54they were calling each other sisters.
09:56It was the emotional whiplash
09:57of the millennium,
09:58especially considering
09:59how harsh the fandom was on Roxy.
10:02They've been celebrating
10:03each other's wins ever since.
10:05Roxy, didn't you shave
10:06Jinx's back or something?
10:07Yes!
10:08They didn't show that either.
10:10They just showed-
10:11They didn't show anything
10:12that supported the fact
10:14that we actually liked each other,
10:16you know?
10:17Bob the Drag Queen
10:18and Derek Barry.
10:19The hero of every story
10:20needs a villain.
10:21If season eight
10:22is the story of how
10:23Bob the Drag Queen
10:24won Drag Race,
10:25then Derek Barry
10:26is her nemesis.
10:27Derek, I think you just
10:28missed the point,
10:28but it's not a big deal.
10:29Okay, well, I don't know
10:30if there was a point.
10:31It's just Bob talking
10:32is your point all the time.
10:34But you'll do like
10:34side-cheated comments
10:35and it's funny,
10:36but when I do side-cheated comments,
10:37it's like over.
10:38Anyone else see this?
10:39Am I on Lonely Island?
10:40Am I on Staten Island?
10:41Derek didn't understand
10:42why she was getting critiques
10:43about her drag
10:44when Bob wasn't.
10:45This disconnect
10:46led to some of the most
10:47hilarious and shady
10:48workroom moments
10:49we've ever seen.
10:50What I said
10:50wasn't going to hurt your feelings.
10:51You're trying to be spiteful.
10:52Your intentions weren't to hurt you.
10:54No, they weren't to hurt.
10:54If I wanted to hurt you,
10:55you'd be crying right now, bitch.
10:56I will never cry
10:58over you
10:59at all.
11:00Don't give me a challenge.
11:01By the end of the season, though,
11:03the two had managed to find
11:04a mutual respect
11:05for each other's art.
11:07Since then,
11:07it appears the one-time enemies
11:09have only grown
11:10to love each other deeply.
11:11You know, people still think
11:12we hate each other.
11:14I mean, didn't we resolve
11:15everything on our season?
11:16I don't understand people.
11:18We won a challenge together.
11:19We did.
11:20Oh my God, yeah.
11:21No one says
11:21that you carried me
11:22through that wind.
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11:56Alyssa Edwards and Coco Montrese.
11:58Few drag race feuds
11:59have generated
12:00as much speculation
12:01or memeable moments
12:02as this one.
12:03As soon as Alyssa Edwards
12:05and Coco Montrese
12:06walked into the room,
12:07it was on sight.
12:08We haven't spoken in two years.
12:10The pageant tore
12:11our friendship apart.
12:13We were close.
12:14And I feel like I was bamboozled.
12:16Coco was the one
12:18backstabbing me behind my back.
12:19Alyssa and I would have
12:20our moment later together
12:22because we need a moment.
12:23So much season five drama
12:25stemmed from the bad blood
12:26that started in their pageant days.
12:28Technically,
12:29Alyssa and Coco were friends
12:30turned enemies
12:31turned friends again.
12:32Why did you write
12:33on your Facebook,
12:34Alyssa shouldn't have won
12:35in the first place.
12:36Do you feel like
12:36that was a hit below the belt?
12:40I laid in bed
12:41next to my husband
12:42and like,
12:43God,
12:44he's like,
12:44what is wrong with you?
12:45And I couldn't,
12:46I couldn't take it.
12:47We'd have to check
12:48and see how they're doing now,
12:49but by the time
12:50they came back
12:50for All-Stars 2,
12:51they had quashed
12:52their season-defining beef.
12:53Girl,
12:54we had buried
12:54the hatch.
12:56We've put it
12:56in the ground
12:5712 feet under.
12:58She ain't coming back out,
12:59okay?
12:59As Alyssa told it,
13:01they had,
13:01quote,
13:02buried the hatch.
13:03They greeted each other
13:04with open arms this time.
13:06Girl,
13:06you got your Dorito fantasy.
13:07Let me see.
13:09Look how orange I look.
13:10I'm not joking, bitch.
13:12Which of these
13:13drag race duels
13:14is your favorite?
13:15Tell us in the comments.
13:16You're welcome.
13:19I'm not joking.
13:20I'm not joking.
13:22I'm not joking.
13:22I'm not joking.
13:22I'm not joking.
13:22You
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