- I've been nice to everybody in this competition,
and today I will stand my ground.
- No fucking class or decorum, honey.
- Are you serious? Ooh, ooh, ooh!
- I'm fucking pissed.
- Say their names!
- 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.
- Can we get a camera outside ASAP?
- Copy. Queens walking.
- Ooh, it's warm today. Ooh.
- My fucking balls hurt.
- I'm gonna get a head start.
- [groans]
[upbeat music]
- Oh!
- Ooh!
I think I'm gonna walk. - Okay.
- Let's prep "Untucked" cameras on the main stage.
- Thank you, queens.
I think we've heard enough.
While you relax in the "Untucked" lounge,
the judges and I will deliberate.
- Thank you.
- [laughing]
- Oh, my God.
Oh, fuck.
[suspenseful music]
I'm feeling thrilled because Plane Jane and I
smashed this challenge, obliterated.
I'm ready to hopefully snatch another win.
[music continues]
- I'm feeling good.
I'm happy about all of my critiques,
and I feel like I got my little redemption
from Snatch Game.
[whispering] Am I going to win?
[music continues]
- Repo cameras to the "Untucked" lounge.
- Sending the queens in three, two, one.
- Oh, baby.
What a week.
- Beep. Beep, boop, beep, boop.
- Which one's yours?
- That one over there. - Okay.
- Oh. - No.
- Ooh, that's cute.
- Dead.
- I needed to get unlaced, girl.
I was truly about to die
on that fucking main stage during critiques.
- Week 11. - What a fucking challenge.
Jesus. - I know.
- Cheers to us, mamas. - Oh, my God.
- We survived. - For making it through.
- Fucking survived it.
- That was a--
- We should all be proud.
- Probably the hardest--
for me at least, hardest challenge we've had yet.
- Me too.
- Oh, so fucking hard.
- Absolutely.
- Which is so crazy.
I didn't expect, like, a sort of "stand-up hosting challenge"
to be so difficult because I'm kind of used
to being on the mic back home.
- I think it's-- it's the time frame.
It's the quickness of it.
- It's more the structure of what we had to do.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- We were doing five things at once
and trying to make everyone laugh.
- Yeah. - And it was--
- A lot of layers.
I laughed my ass off during y'all's set.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, you two were fucking hilarious. - You two were very funny.
- Thank you. - It was clean.
- Thank you.
Even us doing well, like, that's not to say
that we didn't struggle. I mean--
- Oh, yeah.
- The amount of layers, mama.
Just, like, even, like, her having to do the clicker
instead of me, I'm just like, that's--
that's more work for her than it is for me, you know?
That's another layer of, like, the timing.
- The clicker was hard. - Yeah.
- The clicker was very hard. - Can I just add that slide and clips?
- That was hilarious. - That was so fucking brilliant.
- Oh, my God. Yo. - What the hell?
- Mm-hmm.
We'd like you to take a look at the following slides.
[laughter]
- Yes, yes.
And now, some her-storic clips.
[laughter]
- Let it all sink in.
- For what we did in the time we had,
I am very, very proud of us. - Yeah.
Very, very proud of y'all. - Yeah.
- Who felt like they really struggled during this?
- Bitch, I was a deer in the headlights.
- Yeah, baby.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- As you settle into your new life
with your new drag partner,
here are some keys to disregard or disalarm
what she has going on.
- It was horrible.
- I wouldn't say it was horrible.
I would say that I definitely see what the judges were saying.
What do you think, like-- what--what happened?
- I don't know. I was in my head.
- Yeah.
- My anxiety was bothering me, like, the whole day.
And getting in front of all of those people
and having to speak just made it worse.
- Yeah. - So it was a struggle for me.
- Yeah.
- Being up there with you, I could tell immediately
that you were in your head, and I could see you, like,
trying, like, genuinely.
Like, it did not go the way that we intended it tonight,
but I think you should be proud of yourself nonetheless, for sure.
- Thank you.
- I do feel like, and this is no shade
to you, Mhi'ya, I don't know.
I feel like I pushed through a hard circumstance.
We've also seen that some seasoned queens
that are used to the nightclub are now returning
to their corporate roots.
[laughter]
And once again, no shade to you because I know
you were trying your best and I'm so proud of you.
- Did anyone else feel like they struggled?
- I mean, obviously I struggled even from the beginning.
And I mean, I'm just not talking
right now because I'm upset. - Yeah.
- I'm just annoyed that I'm in the bottom,
and I know it's my fault, and I'm just, like, in a mood
and that's it. - Yeah.
- I had my little fuck-up, whatever.
It was awkward.
I really had a brain fart.
Bitch, if you start saying--wait.
[clears throat]
Drag queen flopping.
Did I do horrendously, disgustingly bad?
- No. No.
- I feel like maybe, like, the energy of what
the other two brought was maybe a little bit
louder, more present.
- I felt like it wasn't a train crash.
Like, I didn't-- I didn't, like--
- No. Definitely not.
- I feel like I did get some laughs.
It wasn't, like, horrible.
So whatever.
- I am proud of you both.
I'm really proud of you because you scared the shit out of me the entire time
we were working together.
The mind games you play.
[laughs] - Yeah.
- No mind games. - You always do this, girl.
- The mind games you play. - I just have a moon Gemini.
I'm all over the place.
- It was definitely all over the place.
It, like, made me very, like, nervous for us.
And then you just, like, pulled it through,
and I was just like, this fucking bitch.
- It's always the same shit with her.
I'm nervous, you know, begging me for fucking
immunity week after week. - Not even I'm nervous.
It's, I'm going to flop, I'm gonna die, I'm going home.
- Right. Go home.
- Like, I'm hugging everyone because I might
go home tonight. - Very that part.
And then does, like, a fantastic job.
- This is what you do every single fucking time.
Maybe you should skip that part, though,
and get--just get to the part where you turn it out.
- I mean, I still am struggling with the writing.
Like, you helped me with a lot of it.
I'm not the best writer.
Like, writing is just not my thing.
But, like, I know my own comedy.
It's definitely not writing puns or writing jokes.
It's more in an interactive experience for me
to, like, be funny, like, just being with the crowd.
I played to my strengths.
- Well, there are some people who just, like--
when it comes to the moment, they just turn it on.
- Yeah.
- Oh, pick this up for me.
Oh, wipe my ass.
Bitch, you're already a drag queen.
[laughter]
- I think Sapphira did really, really good, too.
- Yeah. Yeah.
I do feel like it could go to either one of us.
- I woke up in the morning and was just like, you know what?
[pops tongue]
I'm good.
We're gonna do this.
I host every single week.
This is something I do all the time.
- Definitely.
- There once was a woman named Alice.
She used dynamite as a phallus.
They found her vagina in North Carolina
and her asshole in Buckingham Palace.
Cheers!
I was feeling confident. I was feeling good.
- Sapphira did very well,
but I think I have this in the bag.
- I personally thought you were very poised...
- Indeed. - And lovely.
- I hope I'm not interrupting,
but I think there's a drink order that somebody asked for.
Yeah. - Oh, Kim Joel Booster.
- [laughs] Kim Joel Booster.
- Oh, my God.
First can I give you a hug, Asian to Asian?
- Yes, absolutely.
- It feels so good to see another Asian.
- [laughs]
- Whoo-hoo! Joel Kim Booster is here.
Whoa.
Gotta support an Asian sis.
- Are you single?
- I am not.
I do have a man at home, but we are open, so...
- Ooh!
- Where's home?
- Just a little bit over the ridge.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen, I'm so glad I got to come on this challenge specifically
so that I felt like I knew what I was talking about a little bit,
because I'm such a drag fan.
Drag is so impressive to me,
and it's just--it's like magic to me.
So this is a dream come true for me to be here.
- Your drag is so impressive to me.
You are dragged down.
- Just a little Moschino moment, you know?
Nothing--nothing too serious.
- Have you been in drag before?
- I have been in drag exactly one time.
I still have nerve damage in my toe from wearing eight-inch heels all night.
My name was Mulana Del Rey.
- Yes.
- What are you most looking forward to,
like, once the show airs?
- Honestly, just being able to be with,
like, these girls and, like, the friendships
that we've made together.
Like, we've especially gotten, like,
really, really close here, so, like, I'm just excited for--
just, like, to live this experience with all of them.
- Are there any future stand-up comics that you see?
- I--you know-- [laughter]
Honestly, there were so many good jokes
in your presentation.
The denseness of the jokes.
Like, it was like--
they just kept coming.
There were moments of, like, comedy
that really worked for everybody.
- Yeah, girl.
This one's crazy. - Sorry, queens.
I gotta take Joel back to the main stage.
[all groans] - You have such a pretty smile.
- Let's do it. - Goodbye.
Good luck to whoever is lip-synching.
- Bye. - I can't wait to watch it.
- All right, bye. - Thank you.
- Production, cue the video.
- Hey, Q. - Oh, shit.
- It's your husband, Dylan,
and I am so happy that I get to send you a message
while you are competing on season 16
of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
And I also wanted to let you know
that
you have been on my mind every single day,
because I love you and I miss you
and because I am so proud of you.
I'm proud of you because of the wonderful person
that you are and the wonderful person
that you continue to be,
in spite of all of life's trauma and challenges.
One of the most precious memories that I have of us
was when I proposed to you onstage
during your very first drag competition.
And before I got on one knee and asked you to marry me,
I said into the microphone,
"I don't know how this competition is going to end,
"but what I do know is that I want
"to spend the rest of my life watching the person I love
do exactly what they love to do."
I love you,
and I believe in you with all of my heart.
I can't wait to hug you and embrace you.
I'll see you soon.
I love you, Robby. - [crying] I love you so much.
all: Aww.
- [crying]
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, I miss him, like, so much.
- Yeah.
- Oh, my gosh, I needed that.
I really did.
- Girl.
- Thank you.
- Seeing the love that Q's husband has for Q,
it's just, like, really touching and emotional
just seeing their love story.
And it's just beautiful to see Q have that moment.
- What does he do? - He's a nurse practitioner.
- Nice.
- He works at, like, a not-for-profit clinic
where he takes care of, like, a large trans population,
a large population of individuals
living with HIV.
So, like, you know, there's just so much love
in him. - Mm-hmm.
- When he talked about you overcoming your trauma,
I just felt so much love from him, and it just really touched me.
- When I found out I was HIV positive, Dylan was--
he was at a clinical rotation, like, a couple hours away.
And I found out, like, when I was over the phone with him
and he, like, dropped--
[voice breaking] He, like, dropped everything, like,
to, like, drive to me right away just to, like--
just to, like, be with me because he was so worried about me
and he just, like, wanted to, like, be there for me.
[somber music]
And I don't know, like, if I would have--
I don't know if I could have gotten, like, through that without him.
- That's how you know, you know, he's a real one.
- And, you know, I'm HIV positive,
but Dylan is not HIV positive, you know.
And I'm undetectable, so it's not transmittable.
And, you know, he's knowledgeable.
He knows that, and, you know, and he knows everything
about the stigma and, like, what I have to go through,
and, like, he's just that person
that's, like, always lifted me up.
- Yeah.
- [sniffles] Ugh.
I miss him. - Yeah.
- Oh.
I wish he would have brought my kitty out, though.
- Oh.
- Queens, five-minute warning.
Five minutes.
- Thank you, five.
- Busting in loud. Ooh!
I thought the police was here.
[laughter]
- Let's show them what Miami got.
Let's make it the hardest decision
they've ever had to make, and that's it.
- Bitch, whatever happens, I love you.
I'm happy that I shared this experience with you, so, bitch...
- I love you.
[sighs]
I'm upset that I'm in the bottom.
But this is what I do.
I perform.
So I'm excited to wow the judges
and kill this fucking lip sync.
Regardless of who's on that stage with me, baby,
I'm gonna slay them.
- I'm confident in my lip-syncing skills.
I already sent home three queens.
So my Miami girl, let's go.
- I just wanna point out that Morphine's ass
is still on this couch right now.
- Wait. [gasps]
- Ew.
- Wait, the makeup? - Oh, wow.
- Ew. - Wow.
- Can y'all clean that?
That's gross.
- Where?
- Ew.
- Your booty.
- All your body is, like, on this couch.
- Wait.
That's not me, girl. What are you talking about?
- That is you, girl. - No, it's not.
- You were sitting there. - You wearing tights?
- No. - I told you they were--
- That's just your ass. - My skin, yeah.
You know, I'm having a sensitive moment right now.
I'm having a sensitive moment right now. What you're not gonna do--
what you're not gonna do is ruin my moment.
- Take your moment. - Have your moment, bitch.
Take it. - Take it.
- All right, queens. Let's head back to the runway.
- All righty.
- Honey, I took "Untucked" a little too literally.
- Yep. [laughter]
- I need to--I need to--
I need to get back in drag, mama.
[suspenseful music]
- Girl.
Girl, look.
Keep dreaming.
- Stand by for Mhi'ya. - Okay.
- Thank you. Love you.
- Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
[dramatic music]
- Mhi'ya, Morphine,
the time has come for you
to lip sync
for your life.
[music continues]
[laughter]
Mhi'ya, my queen,
sashay away.
Thank you.
[applause]
- From the palace to the queendom,
the queen of flips is exiting the group chat.
[laughter and applause]
- Love you. - Love you.
It's a bittersweet moment for me.
Of course, I wanted to win.
But I felt like I wasn't doing my best
and I was, like, always in the bottom.
I didn't push myself as hard as I should have been pushing myself.
I can't believe it's over.
Season 16.
Being here was showing me that
I am more than what I think I am.
I definitely feel like I'm a different person,
and I met a lot of new sisters,
so I'm happy with that.
I feel like I could have gave the judges more
of Mhi'ya, been open more,
and been more active with the girls.
I've always been afraid to, like, open up to new people.
That's just something I've always dealt with growing up
and still dealing with.
It was hard for me to let go and just be Mhi'ya.
But it means the world to me to be a Ru girl.
I just hope I touch a lot of people
and people learn from my experience
of dealing with anxiety and being shy and scared to open up
and that it's okay to open up to people.
I wouldn't change this experience for nothing in the world.
Oh, they left me letters.
This one is from Q.
"Hey, girl.
"I'm so happy that I got to know you
"over the course of this competition.
"You are so absolutely talented,
"and we are gonna have a huge kiki after this.
"I'll make you some outfits
and help you jump Morphine ass."
[chuckles]
[soft music]
"Mhi'ya, my Miami sister.
"I'm so happy we got to experience this together.
"We are gonna make Miami proud.
"I'm gonna fight it out to make it to the top four.
"Love you so much,
big mom Morphine, love Dion."
Reading the notes reminds me that we've bonded
and we had fun here.
I am excited to travel the world with the girls.
We're gonna have fun and live it up
and take it all in, because this is our moment.
[music continues]
Love you, "Drag Race."
[dramatic music]
Moving forward, I'm going to focus on me, my happiness...
Building an empire, and leaving behind a legacy.
I'm just ready to take on the world now.
[music continues]
Season 16, it was the blast,
but the queen has to get back home to her palace.
- [singing] A little bit of love
Goes a long, long way
Lifting you up to a brighter day
A little bit of love
Goes a long, long way
Turn it around when you up and say
Everybody say love
Love, love, love, oh, oh, oh
Love, love, love
Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Love, can you feel the love?