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Lashauwn Beyond: This is not RuPaul's Best Friend Race.

Laganja Estranja: I feel very attacked!

Vanjie: I was trying to reach closure with you!

Silky: If I would've lip-synced for my life today, bitch,

I was ready to do so!

RuPaul: This is Untucked, backstage at the competition

to become America's next drag superstar.

Girl, if you're not watching Untucked,

you're only getting half the story.

Director: Break on the main stage.

All cameras re-po.

RuPaul: Thank you, ladies. I think we've heard enough.

Now, while you untuck backstage,

the judges and I will deliberate.

Oh, my gosh.

We're on RuPaul's Drag Race.

It's a dream come true.

I'm fucking ecstatic.

This means so much to me to finally be here.

I couldn't ask for anything more.

I'm very excited to be here on RuPaul's Drag Race.

I'm trying to keep up my energy

so that I can show America

why they should fall in love with me.GRAPHIC NEXT

Rolling, rolling.

Marker.

Queens are 100 and ready to move.

Director: Show the queens in three, two, one.

Oh, my God.

She needs a good drink.

-Oh, girl. -Mmm-mmm-mmm.

Wow, we're here!

I'm gonna sit down.

Y'all, we're in Untucked.

I know. We're here.

Ladies, cheers.

-Cheers. -Cheers.

Season 12.

Let's untuck.

Yes!

So how are we feeling

about the performance and everything?

I out of everybody was probably the most nervous

and the most, like, terrified for this challenge.

Because I'm the one with the least experience

at, like, you know, choreography and dancing

and all of that.

So get such, like, positivity back from the judges,

I was, like, just fucking elated.

Yeah.

Bitch, I say, ooh, they saw it, honey.

You know, something I was so glad

that they noticed about me

was that I'm not just one thing.

Like, you know, I can be cute and bubbly,

but I can still retain that, like, little bit of wickedness

or, like, you know what I mean?

There is no specific way to do drag.

You can be whoever the fuck you wanna be

and do drag however you wanna do it.

-Yeah. -Like, you don't have to have,

like, a dance background or a club background

or anything.

If you wanna be a damn drag queen,

be a damn drag queen and entertain.

Doesn't she look like the host

of, like, the new Slime Time Live?

[all agree]

I'm, like, yes.

Yes, that's you, bitch.

To me, it was just, like, the main thing was, like,

literally look at Ru, Michelle,

everybody just giving us real live critiques.

That just felt like the most out of body experience

Like, I'm getting goose bumps

even just thinking about it right now.

It was just crazy.

And especially for you, 'cause you are probably, like,

the ultimate RuPaul's Drag Race fan.

I am. It's such a dream come true

to be on this fucking show.

Not only do I watch the show,

but I listen to their podcast,

and, like, I really, really try to take in

everything that they say.

I feel like I'm supposed to be here

doing what I'm doing,

and I'm glad that I get to share it with all y'all.

How are you feeling?

Yes, I was literally just going to say,

you've been so quiet.

I know. How are you feeling?

I still think I'm going to be in the bottom two today.

Oh, no, sis.

You got really good critiques.

I know. It bums me out that you feel that way

because, like, you need to realize

that you are on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12.

-Child. -Down.

-Down! -And you are here.

Like, you're here.

You're a drag queen, and you have a gift.

You know what I mean?

And, like, being a drag queen,

you have to let everyone have your gift.

You need to own your power

because you're a powerful queen.

-You know what I mean? -That's why you're here.

Get this woman a napkin. Jesus Christ.

Excuse me.

Let me do it.

-Somebody help me. -We have it. It's right here.

No, she ordered thousands of dollars worth of tulle.

She told us 600 times. Let me get--

I'm gonna get you a napkin.

I think Rock needs to realize

that she's here because she's fierce,

and stop being, like...

[whines]

You made sure that you got here.

And, bitch, you went out there doing the splits,

tooting, doing the high kicks.

Make it rain, bitch!

Literally make it rain!

[laughs] Make it rain!

Whoo! --need word for this bleep

Get it all, bitch. [laughs]

Oh, there you go. There you go.

[laughs]

I came into this competition very confident

in myself and what I was representing.

I'm, like, you're here for yourself.

You are not going to carry the weight of San Francisco

because you got here because of you.

And the minute that I felt triggered,

like, the other day, like, during rehearsal,

it all came crashing down, and, um...

I feel very vulnerable right now.

Girl, that's ridiculous.

Like, you are not here because--

Although you love your city,

you're not here because of anybody in San Francisco.

You are here because of the work that you do

and what your drag is.

You are here representing yourself.

Now, if your city wanna be happy about that,

then San Francisco can be happy.

If they don't, then, girl, that's on them.

[exhales]

Do you feel like you disagree or agree with the critiques?

I felt like, you know,

once something fucks you up right in the beginning,

you're just like, fuck, and got into my head.

In your performance tonight,

you felt a little nervous to me.

I could feel a little bit of, "Oh, shit."

Mm-hmm.

The judges thought I looked thrown, and I was.

Which I need to work on that,

because I've done that before in performances

where something was throwing me off in the very beginning,

and I'm just over it, and it reads on my face.

And I try not to have that happen,

but it's, like, stop it, bitch.

Like, snap out of it and get it together.

Miss Jaida, how are you feeling

about your critiques, mama?

Child, look, like, I'm glad that I got really good critiques.

Because, girl, like I told you, I was really nervous about it.

So when they, like,

well, we felt you felt really confident,

I'm, like, girl.

That's a good thing, girl.

If they saw confidence even if you weren't confident,

bitch, that's a huge plus.

You know what the thing is

is that I felt like-- I mean, I was confident,

but at the same time,

it's, like, there's so much riding on this.

I love you so much.

I love you so much, too.

And if you do leave tonight,

leave your wig for me, sis.

Oh, you want my wig.

Not gonna happen.

Oh, bitch--

Regardless of anything, girl,

everybody, like, shined individually,

in whatever style of drag it is that you do.

Like, everybody was a star in their right.

That was the craziest part about tonight.

-We killed it. -We did.

We all are phenomenal.

I'm so happy that we're all getting along so well.

-I think that is so great. -[laughs]

I do. I think--

She's, like, I am so happy.

I'm so happy right now.

Of course, the world is not a kumbaya world.

Like, we're all sitting here around a campfire.

But, like, if there is, like, a bottom two,

I'm gonna be in the bottom two.

Because everybody was so good, they had to pick one thing,

so, like, bitch, my nervousness, like...

girl, it's, like, bye, bitch.

Obviously I hope that doesn't happen,

and I hope that you're here going forward, but like--end act 1

All of us are, like, starting to feel the pressure of the competition.

Everyone's kind of looking at each other.

They're, like, trying to figure out

who's the weakest link right now.

Because there's only six of us,

which means that we have a one-in-six chance

of going home now.

Aah!

I mean, that's what it feels like.

This entire two days

has been so nerve-wracking.

You know, compared to other seasons,

we had such an awesome opportunity

to just, like, present so much of ourselves to the world.

But when do they ever do a challenge,

like, a dance, lyric--

Two runways. Two look runways, bitch.

Four. Four whole looks, right?

-Yeah. -Four looks, bitch.

-Five. -Five looks.

Like, girl, we are showing--

We're literally in the first episode,

being, like, "America, hello."

Like, literally.

As, like, a huge fan of the show,

every, like, first episode

I personally always go in, like, picking out the bitch,

like, okay, who's going home this episode?

And out of all of us here, just like...

And that's not just because, like, I'm here

and I have to be nice to you all or whatever.

No, it's legit.

Like, I am, like, wow.

Seriously, bitch.

-Like, this is like it was real. -Yeah.

What if we are it?

What if this is it?

[laughs] That would be gagging.

Somebody wrote on that mirror, bitch.

We need to talk about this mysterious message.

It says, "We done already done had ourses."

What if five of us

against fucking Aiden and all of her other personalities?

[all laugh]

You had better sell a shirt

for every single one of your personalities.

Bitch, yes!

[laughs]

If you don't, that's a lost opportunity,

and I'll sell them if I have to.

Child. Oh, my gosh.

I'm just curious.

What the hell is gonna happen when all of us come together?

-Right. -Yeah.

Do you think when all the other girls come in,

everybody is just going to be still nice to each other,

or are we gonna be cunts and how?

With RuPaul's Drag Race, you just never know.

The other girls are gonna come out,

and maybe the world's gonna end.

I don't know what's going to happen.

You can be nice, but at the end of the day,

we're in a competition.

It's drag, and in drag, a lot of shit is gonna hurt.

Period.

I'm nervous because who knows what situation

we're gonna get put into with these other girls.

I don't want it to be like that rehearsal.

Maybe my opinions are not valued.

-Oh! -Let's--

From the beginning,

I said we should have did something simple.

Didn't listen. Now we stuck here.

The simplicity is now, like, out of the window.

Like, it doesn't really matter if it's simple

if people did not catch

where they should be when they should be.

What was important in that rehearsal

was to see, like, the stress

and how people react under stress.

Bitch, it's not like--

I feel, like, everybody had to have some type of nerves.

Bitch, that was a nerve-wrecking situation,

being the first time ever being right on the stage

knowing that they were, like, judging us.

I have to say, like, when we had our issue,

my biggest issue was I felt like

you were making excuses for yourself.

I know for a fact that my strong suit is not choreography.

And I don't wanna be the one, who, like, get out there

and I don't remember the choreography

and fuck the group up.

And then all of a sudden, it's, like, oh, girl,

you girls are at the bottom and somebody's going home.

And I'm, like, now I done drug other people with me.

You know what I mean?

I'm sorry.

What show are we doing?

Jaida, my darling, this is a competition,

and we all knew that at some point

people have to go home.

Get it together, mother.

Bitch, it really don't matter at this point.

-Yeah, I mean-- -It's done.

-We killed it. -We did.

We all looked phenomenal.

Did you guys notice that we're all pride colors?

Yeah.

Red, yellow, fucking orange, green, blue.

-And then you've got-- -You're the whole rainbow.

She's the rainbow.

And that San Francisco smog right here.

Right there.

She's carrying it with her, honey.

Hi.

[all scream]

I am gagged, honey.

Robyn done showed up in this room.

Day one, you expect that you gonna, like, see a celebrity,

but you don't think the celebrity's

gonna come in the back and just jam out with you.

I'm so happy to see her back here.

-Hi. -Hi-ee.

Hi.

It's Robyn!

Robyn is one of my all-time favorite artists.

This is a dream come true.

Hi.

Can I have them?

Of course you can.

Aah! It's a lot.

Yes!

There's 1.000 yards in this outfit.

How are you? Oh, my God!

I'm good. It's so nice to be here with you.

Oh, my God. Do you know how many of your songs

I've been dancing drunk to in the bar

like, late at night? -No.

I do one of your numbers.

I do Dancing On My Own.

It was, like one of my, like, first,

like, big numbers in New York City.

Oh, wow.

I'm pretty sure literally every single one of us

has performed your songs.

Everybody has performed your songs.

Hey, listen, I put on Call Your Girlfriend

and I'm, like, I hope my man is at home

doing what the fuck he's supposed to be doing.

[all laugh]

'Cause it might be somebody telling him to call me,

and I ain't got no phone, okay?

And I'm, like, bitch--

I can't believe this show,

how amazing it is to sit in there

and be able to watch all of you.

-Oh, my God. -Thank you.

And it's very moving. There's so much at stake.

Like, I can't believe the pressure you're under.

It's crazy.

You should have saw our first rehearsal.

You would have thought very different of us.

-Yeah? -Yes.

They were, like, these bitches are crazy.

[all laugh]

I love this dress, by the way.

Like, I was, like, over on the side

the entire time, like--

There's wind in here. Look.

While you were judging, I'm, like, it just kept moving.

I'm, like, yes!

I just want that all over my body.

Oh!

Aah!

Oh! Thank you.

-If I may? -Yes.

You are an amazing performer-performer.

Thank you.

What are some, like, artist's advice

that you wish that maybe you had gotten

when you were, like, beginning the...

I know that's a very big question.

There's so much.

It's so complicated, I think,

and you learn so much along the way

in so many different ways.

But I think one thing I felt

is strong collaborative relationships

have been really important for me.

So, like, people that I've found along the way

that I just really loved talking to,

and they're my sounding boards.

Because I would feel really, like, stressed

if I couldn't bounce off of other people.

Sometimes I imagine what that person would say.

-Yeah. -That's very helpful.

Oh, damn.

Great for this moment right now.

What's drag like in Sweden?

Oh. [all laugh]

Good question.

Oh, you kind of put me on the spot.

I think they're all watching you.

Or will be watching you, I'm sure.

-Sitting with Robyn. -I'm sure.

Have you done drag before?

I've done drag once,

and I dragged as a very feminine woman.

-Oh, yeah? -Yes!

As yourself.

No, because I was a tomboy,

so I didn't dress like this when I was younger.

Really?

So it was really, like-- Yeah, it was like drag for me.

Would you ever do my makeup?

-Yeah. Of course. -Okay!

[all laugh]

Please.end act

So how many of you are here?

It's only six right now.

Are there more of you or is it only six?

We're not sure yet.

Girl, your guess is as good as ours.

Yeah?

We don't know what's going on at all.

We know nothing. All we know is to be fabulous.

There was a message on one of the mirrors in the werkroom,

so we think there's another group.

Girl, this is not a regular situation.

-Oh, wow. -It is crazy.

-It's a lot. -Queens, sorry.

I gotta take Robyn with me.

Thank you, Robyn, for being here.

-Thank you. -Bye.

Thank you.

Nice to meet you. Bye.

If you're done with the dress, I'll take it.

-Bye. -Bye.

-Call me. -Child.

[laughs]

-Who didn't finish their drink? -Me.

You want it? It's cute.

All the vodka's at the bottom.

You know what I want, though? A hot dog.

I'm just gonna take a nap on the sofa. Yes.

That's how I'm feeling.

Bitch, I just wanted to talk to you about how you're feeling.

I'm feeling a little... I'm feeling a little defeated.

You're doing good, girl. You're killing it.

So are you, girl.

It sucks that they saw you nervous,

because you not-nervous

is something that everyone should see.

Well, we both here. We both gonna kill it.

We both gonna kill it. If we kill it hard enough,

maybe they'll do a double shantay

for the first one.

Aah! Girl, let's hope.

Let's hope.

That's never happened, but...

Never happened, but there's always a first time.

Let's hope, bitch.

Actually, no. Let's not hope, bitch.

Let's make sure--

-Let's make it happen. -It's gonna happen.

But let's just do this lip sync, bitch,

'cause you're killing it.

Love you, baby.

Love you forever.

All right, Queens. Five minutes till the runway.

Thank you, Five.

My biggest fear right now is being in the bottom two

and going home first.

I'm just trying to get my head focused

and in the game,

so I prepped myself for possibly lip syncing.

If I have to lip sync,

I will definitely give it my all.

These girls all just sat here

and told me to not doubt myself

and to go all out and to be myself.

And I can't let down them,

but most of all,

I can't let down myself.

All right, Queens. Time to go to the main stage.

Aah!need word for this bleep

Here we go.

Can we do a group hug before we go?

Oh. Okay, bye.

They're, like, screw you.

I'll just hug myself.

Come on, ladies.

To the main stage.

RuPaul: Welcome back, ladies.

I've made some decisions.

Nobody is going home this week.

But there will be one winner.

Jaida Essence Hall.

Sherry Pie.

The time has come

for you to lip sync

for your life!

Jaida Essence Hall,

you're a winner, baby.graphic

♪ I am American, American, American ♪

♪ I am American, American ♪

♪ The red, white, and blue ♪

♪ I am American, American, American ♪

♪ I am American, American ♪

♪ Just like you, too ♪

♪ Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-American, American, American ♪

♪ I am American, American ♪

♪ The red, white, and blue ♪

♪ I am American, American ♪

♪ Just like you, too ♪