“RuPaul’s Drag Race ”queens kiss, cry, come out, and reveal secret ‘fifteenth queen’ in epic season 18 group interview (unique)

The RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 premiere isn't even right here but, however the brand new solid of queens are already crying, kissing, popping out, and crashing out over unhealthy runway seems, Untucked drama, and the evil antics of a secret "fifteenth queen" (!) in Leisure Weekly's unique group interview (above).

The spicy dialog — now out there on EW's YouTube channel — reunites all 14 queens set to compete on Drag Race season 18, who face down their sisters after casting previous votes to find out the villain of the season (the "sinister" Briar Blush), the shadiest queen of the 12 months (Nini Coco, they're you!), and the queen with the worst runways of season 18 (we're so sorry, Mandy Mango).

One of many greatest reveals from EW's earlier one-on-one interviews with the solid, nonetheless, got here within the type of an on-set romance that allegedly developed between former The View guest and America's Got Talent contestant Athena Dion and southern pageant princess Vita VonTesse Starr. Issues get heated on the set inside EW's New York Metropolis studio, the place Vita and Athena settled the rumors and determined to make out in the course of the dialog.

"Get a f—ing room, dude!" fellow contestant Jane Don't (from the identical drag household as All Stars 10 queens Bosco and Irene the Alien) exclaimed, earlier than Vita later proposed to Athena utilizing a faux ring. (It's nonetheless TBD if Athena's granddaughter, Juicy Love Dion, would be the flower woman on the marriage ceremony.)

Amid breaking down runway seems set to grace the Primary Stage throughout tonight's season premiere and past, the queens additionally collectively swear a secret fifteenth queen named "Crystal" competed with them on set — earlier than she was (not like Discord Addams, who beforehand put her early ouster rumors to mattress) allegedly disqualified from the competitors.

"F— that bitch!" Kenya Pleaser says of the mysterious "Crystal," who "needed to lip-sync to 'Mambo No. 5,'" in accordance with Myki Meeks.

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"You could possibly see her quit. You could possibly inform she didn't need to be there anymore," Jane provides, whereas Juicy jokes of the totally-not-made-up queen, "She obtained disqualified. We edited Crystal out."

On a extra severe notice, the queens additionally subject questions submitted by previous contestants like Nicole Paige Brooks, Jewels Sparkles, and Sapphira Cristál, who inquired about what truths the competitors introduced out among the many solid.

Whereas Mandy revealed that she's now capable of totally lean into her nonbinary id, Vita gave an emotional tribute to how the solid lifted her up at a darkish time in her life earlier than cameras rolled.

"One of many issues Drag Race pressured me to study myself or remember about myself is my price," Vita says, preventing again tears earlier than Kenya breaks down crying over her sister's phrases.

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"In the course of despair, as a result of that's the place I used to be, I stored asking, I stored praying, why? Why am I occurring this present, on this platform, after I'm not all the way in which mentally the place I'm purported to be?" Vita says. "I feel, after months, it lastly got here to me. I feel the explanation why is as a result of I wanted these ladies. I by no means had or skilled sisterhood, true sisterhood, I imply, the enjoyment that these ladies give, the compassion, the love, it's really one thing. I don't need to get to deep, however simply know that I f—ing love y'all with all the things in me. You might be all the things to me, and you might be what I wanted."

RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. Watch EW's unique group interview and particular person interviews with the brand new solid of queens within the movies above.

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