[upbeat rock music]
Testing, testing.
Reporting live from "Untucked."
Let's do this, honey.
I'm about to give it to 'em, bitch.
- Give it. - A little bit of reading.
A little bit of shade.
Season 18 "Untucked"! [all shouting]
[energetic music]
This is "Untucked."
We're live, loud, and in color, darling.
Time to go behind the scenes with the queens of season 18.
Yeah!
'Cause, honey, if you're not watching "Untucked"...
There's gonna be a lot of tears.
I hope so.
[crying] I can't go home.
You're only getting half the story.
[voice cracking]
Keep them on their toes.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Welcome to "Untucked," the final "Untucked,"
where you're getting the other half of the story.
♪ ♪
Oh, I would like the other half of the story to be...
[whispers] Top three for me.
♪ ♪
Going into this final runway,
I feel really good about my chances
of getting into the finals.
I want the world. I want the galaxy.
And I'm here to show you that I may be queen
of the mothertucking world.
The Meeks shall inherit the Earth, darling.
This is a new gig. We've got pads.
We've got the glamour, the hair.
Rich.
Can't believe these are on my fingers right now.
These feel crazy.
I'm like Edward Scissorhands.
I actually am a top.
That is a secret.
Now the world knows.
[clacker rattles]
Believe it or not. [chuckles]
[upbeat music]
Something subtle to walk to go to the airport.
♪ ♪
Muah. Last runway. Ah!
♪ ♪
Hi, everyone. - Hi.
- Top four. - Top four.
Ah!
♪ ♪
All right, while you untuck backstage,
the judges and I will deliberate.
[dramatic electronic music]
Drag hurts so much. [laughs]
[upbeat music]
OK, that was our last time getting critiqued.
- We did it. - Bitch, I look--ooh.
- Ooh! - Is that Lana Del Rey?
Wait, vintage cunt.
- Vintage cunt. - This is craziness.
That was fierce. I was very gagged.
Box too.
Box on today, sisters.
♪ ♪
Whoo! Final "Untucked"!
You did it, girl.
- Whoa! - Ooh!
- Oh, my goodness. - Oh, my gosh.
- This is amazing. - Hello.
- Oh, my gosh, charcuterie. - Edible arrangement.
Go out on a limb here, but I think the two of you
are guaranteed top three, diva.
I think based off the critiques,
that's what it's sounding like. - That's crazy.
But I'm not even thinking about that right now.
I'm just reveling in the moment.
This is yours. - Thank you.
Just reveling in the moment of, like, we're here.
It's our last-- last time doing this.
And it just feels amazing. It feels amazing.
I also need to get out of this outfit.
That's what I'm thinking about right now.
I'll be back, y'all.
This is the last "Untucked" of the season.
After critiques, I feel like I am
in the finale, which is crazy.
Like, and honestly, like,
I might be getting my second win.
And a win right before the finale,
that is, like, what you ask for.
Oh, that's crazy.
- Top four. - Top four!
- Whoo! - Whoo!
Oh, God. I'm gonna pop my wig.
[chuckles]
You got it? - Fuck.
One more time, OK. - OK.
- One... - Ready.
- Top four! - Top four!
[bottle pops] - Ah!
Holy shit.
Yay.
None of us knew how-- how this was gonna shake out,
but, like, I am so proud of all of us.
This is a dream come true, and let's soak up this last--
- Last "Untucked." - Last "Untucked."
Yes.
- Cheers, girls. - Congrats.
No matter whatever happens next, girls.
This is crazy.
It has been a long, long journey.
We don't really know what's about to happen,
but most likely, one of us is about to get the chop.
And given those critiques,
it's about to be me or Juicy.
And I feel that I am clawing my way to this finale,
but I've earned it.
Can we talk about RuPaul
vindicating the fuck out of me?
Oh!
You know, the girls put you in the bottom that time.
- They did. - That was shade.
I don't think you deserved to be in the bottom.
Did--did-- y'all hear that?
I did not deserve to be the bottom for the talent show.
I think my villain origin story
comes from the Rate-a-Queen Challenge.
These girls did not see it for me.
They tossed me aside and put me to the bottom.
Whether that was strategy or for real,
they just didn't see it for me.
But I saw it for me.
It was the Florida girls. Sorry.
Mia and Athena, like,
fully swung that vote.
And you kind of fucked it up, too.
- We ranked each other last. - I can't be mad at Darlene.
I put Darlene last on my ranking, so...
Darlene, where's your head at?
You shared pretty amazing moments with Ru.
You had Ru in tears, Darlene.
We talked a little bit about your sobriety,
and I know firsthand how...
how when you take the time
to live in your skin and to--
to honor that, what can happen.
Sobriety is such a specific feeling.
You guys have a similar journey in that sense.
My drag wouldn't be what it is without being sober,
and I feel like being sober and being the most comfortable
in my skin that I've ever been right now,
that I'm ready to just embrace my power
and become my fully realized self.
I'm over the moon.
Yeah.
That was better than good critiques.
- Yeah. - [laughs]
That was personal and validating, and just--
I'll remember that critique probably forever.
Yeah. That was incredible.
- And deserved, too. - Thank you so much.
That challenge really was a lot of fun.
I had a blast.
- Yeah. - You made it that way.
That was amazing, also, to hear.
They were like-- Ru was like,
I would watch y'all's TV show...
- Girl. - Every day.
And then Ross...
Can you do the Drew Barrymore impression for me again?
[as Drew Barrymore] It's so good to see you, Rossi.
[giggling]
You did a great job in the challenge,
but I also want you to know,
I think you'd be a really great host.
[chuckles] Thank you.
You could actually do that job.
You're going to the Drew show, bitch.
Bitch!
You're going to the Drew show for sure.
- This doesn't feel real. - It's so amazing, girl.
When they bring you on, like, Drew, I have a surprise!
And it's you as Drew, I would--I'm gonna lose it.
Drew, it--Drew. It's me, Drew.
[laughs]
I don't know if it's the wig that's squeezing my head
so fiercely right now, I'm a little loopy,
but, like, it feels like a dream.
The judges, you know,
they didn't have as much fun watching ours.
But... - We had fun.
I do still feel like we had fun.
- Yeah. - We--we did what--
we did with it what we could.
And, yeah, it is what it is.
I'm not gonna beat myself up over it,
because, uh, definitely got the worst critiques of the night.
It felt a little pre-written.
It didn't feel like you were in the moment.
Where's your head at, Nini? I mean, they had nothing
but rave things to say about this outfit.
You know, I feel like I--
I appreciated the critiques they gave about my look.
I mean, like, fucking chef's kiss from head to toe.
I'm so pissed at myself that this whole last few weeks
of the competition have just been
bottom, bottom, bottom, because that is--
just feels shit.
Like, it doesn't feel good.
I know it's not good,
but I'm still proud of the things that I've been doing.
It's just, y'all have been
edging it out in a few different ways.
I really want that moment in the finale to just...
- Take it in. - Bring it all the way home.
I think it might be a top lip sync.
It could be that too.
I would not put it past them that they would do
a top two lip sync for the final four.
If that's the case,
yeah, that wire might have to come off.
Listen.
From what we know,
there's gonna be an elimination.
But we've seen it go down to a top three.
We've seen Ru say it'll go to a top three
but keep it a top four.
Anything could happen.
[crunch]
Do we need a little fun in the room?
- [laughs] - A little fun in the room.
So we're gonna do a little show and tell.
Oh, my God. Ay.
These are the portraits that Ru painted of us
in the Tic Tac chat. - She's so talented.
She's really an artist.
The Tic Tac chat with RuPaul was amazing.
This is a moment that a lot of queens dream of,
but this time, she had quite a twist for us.
Oh-- [quiet laugh]
God, Ru, you need to stick with your day job.
- OK. - Guess who?
- Up first. - Let us see.
This is Darlene.
- What? - I'm kind of obsessed with it.
The trucker hat.
I kind of live.
- Yeah, it's cool. - A real Picasso.
It is actually kind of fierce.
I know, I wasn't quite sure, like, how to respond
when she turned it around because she was like--
- Yo, what did you say? - What do you think?
And I was like, oh, that's actually, like, really cool.
- Yeah. - [laughs] OK.
OK, up next.
[chuckles]
- Ew. - What!
- Oh, my God! - Is that what I look like?
It's so hyper-realistic.
- Is that-- - Guys, I'm not even kidding.
It's a little too hyper-realistic.
I couldn't-- scarred when I saw this.
Do I look like that? - No.
- Y'all.
When I tell you I saw this and I go--
You, like, fell into the black hole.
I was like... [laughter]
- Oh, my God. - What is happening?
Is it not unsettling? - It's very unsettling.
Do I look like that?
[sighs]
[horse neighs]
- What? What? - [cackles]
I--I don't know if I like this.
What-- why is the horse--
What is-- why are you ripped?
- Oh! - You're so ripped.
I don't know what is going on here.
I like the boa around the-- - The teeth.
The face, like, looks like you,
but it also doesn't.
How did this make you feel in reality?
If you could tell Ru something right now, what would you say?
I loved it.
I love it! - You are a lying bitch.
Drag queens are liars. - I love it.
Anyways.
OK, last but not least.
[chuckling] - Oh, we went landscape.
It's terrible. It's terrible.
[laughing]
[screams, laughs]
- Myki! - Oh, no.
Myki!
- Is this what she, like-- - Myki!
Is this Myki at home?
Yeah, me and my bra and panty.
Yeah, paint me like one of your French girls.
Most accurate I would probably say is Myki
because, in my mind-- [laughs]
I want to envision her just in her home,
bra and panties, on the chaise lounge like that.
I don't know why that just, like, tickles me so much.
It's so unsettling.
It is very unsettling.
- And no nails. - No nails.
- Body tea, though. - That tuck is giving.
The tuck is giving.
Darlene, do you realize you got away?
Uh, yeah.
Darlene, you got, like, the best one.
- Yeah. - Yours is, like, actually art.
All of these are cursed images.
- Love that for me. - Take that one away.
I really-- I'm spiraling.
It's really sending you, huh?
Is this what I look like? I'm not even kidding.
Uh--well, when you put it next to your face...
[tense music]
[laughs]
I'm not-- this is freaking me out.
- Do you remember this? - Oh, bring it right here.
Careful, it's gonna fall off the couch.
OK, that's enough spinning, girl.
Who's leaving the season 18 cast group chat
to start their own private chat?
- All of us. - All of us.
[laughs]
Who is hitting--
who is hitting look followers first?
- What? - 100. 100K.
[laughter]
- 100K. - What?
[laughter]
It says look.
Look followers.
- Who's hitting look followers? - [laughing]
Who's hitting look followers?
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
My first thought when they announced the challenge was,
ugh.
Here we fucking go.
I had a feeling I'd be in the bottom two.
The critiques for me tonight were not that great.
It's not a good spot to be in,
and I really want to make it to the finale.
But I know that I'm in danger.
I got a huge miss tonight.
I mean, it was a huge miss, like, a huge miss.
I feel really disappointed, with myself more than anything.
You know? That's just the thing.
I'm trying to stay positive about it.
But you know what I mean? It just sucks.
And I just--
I just know, when the music comes on,
there's no part of you that gives up.
But I'm like, right now, I don't want you to...
No, no, no, no.
Feel that you've, like, failed because
you haven't failed in any way.
But it does feel like that, you know?
Yeah.
It does really feel like I just flopped.
At this point, I'm like,
they're probably not even gonna do a lip sync.
They're just gonna be like, Juicy...
- Girl. - No.
You're going home. [laughs]
That's what it feels like, honestly.
It feels like they're literally just gonna be like,
yeah, we don't need to do--
we don't need to see a lip sync.
That is far from a fact,
differentiating the difference between feelings and facts.
Yeah.
And that is far from factual.
So don't even let that narrative take root.
Yeah.
Because you said the other day, you were like,
if I am supposed to be here to lip sync
for the world to see how I lip sync,
then I will lip sync my way out of it.
So tap into that, bitch. - Yeah.
Yeah, I'm trying. I mean, no tears this time.
Oh, fuck.
♪ ♪
- Hey, divas. - Weren't we gonna--
Last-- last "Untucked" Polaroid.
♪ ♪
One, two...
♪ ♪
- I love you, baby. - I love you, diva.
So much.
You better give it everything.
- You too. I love you. - I will.
We have been with each other since the beginning,
and we are the only survivors.
And I wish all of us could stick it out to the finale.
This elimination is haunting us,
but we're trying our best to just take in the moment
and be with each other this one last time.
I want nothing more
than to continue on in this competition.
Even though we are competing against each other
and only one person's gonna take the crown,
if anything, it makes it more of a real experience.
Like, there are real people behind the competitors.
We're all here for a reason and it's the same reason.
So if I have to lip-sync tonight,
I'm definitely just going to leave it all out there
and do as much as I possibly can
to show the judges how badly I want to stay here.
- Goodbye. - It's been an amazing season.
- Bye, "Untucked." - We love you.
- We love you. Muah. - Thank you for all the love.
Bye!
I got a hair in my mouth. - Off to get a crown.
- Ooh! - Wow.
- From a dentist. - [laughs]
I'm gonna get my stuff.
Season 18, thanks for watching.
We've been officially untucked.
- Yeah. - Ew.
- We love you. - We love you.
Goodbye.
- Let's go. - Come on.
Oh.
Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
[dramatic music]
Myki Meeks, Darlene Mitchell,
condragulations,
you are both the winners of this week's Maxi Challenge.
Juicy Love Dion, Nini Coco,
I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are both up for elimination.
[upbeat music]
The time has come for you
to Lip Sync
for Your Life!
♪ ♪
Nini Coco, shantay, you stay.
Oh, my God.
And condragulations, you're moving forward
to the grand finale of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
Juicy, my queen,
thank you for putting a little bit of love
in everything you do.
Now sashay away.
Never forget it.
The juice is officially loose.
- Yes, girl. - Love you, Juice.
- Love you. - Thank you so much.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Well, that was it.
It is extremely hard to come this far
and get so close to the finale
but not reach that goal.
I wanted it so, so, so badly.
It is what it is.
The judges have made their decision,
and I have to accept my fate.
[electronic music]
I am very proud of what I've done here.
I'm proud of myself, and I'm only getting started.
♪ ♪
Well, they got me, gal.
"Dancing with the Stars," hit me up, girl.
♪ ♪
Oh, my God!
- Three queens! - Oh!
Oh, my God!
What the hell?
Oh, careful, careful.
I need something to hold on to.
I am through the roof.
Moving on to the finale is, of course, what I--
what I wanted out of this.
The amount of joy that I feel is so rare--
[laughs] That it just floods me.
- Congrats, girl. - Congratulations, girl.
- Congrats, Darlene. - Oh.
- This is unreal. - Y'all.
So deserved, too, for the win.
- Thank you. - Fierce.
We fucking did it. We did it.
Mission accomplished.
You are going into the finale with four wins.
- Four wins. - Bitch, iconic.
I know my star potential.
I've proven it to myself.
I've proven it to the other girls.
I've proven it to the judges.
And I love what I do,
and I do it exceptionally well.
We're team--team two.
Yeah. [laughs]
- Team two. - Girl, what?
But we add up to four.
That's true.
- So-- - Good math.
- Math, baby. - Good math.
And the fact that they all--
the last three came in these past three weeks...
- Bitch-- - Like, I--
- Icon status. - Icon.
- Ooh, don't go for my crown. - Wait.
- Don't come for my brand. - Am I? Am I iconic?
Wait, am I iconic?
Ooh. - Ooh.
I am over the moon.
I am to--to-- to the moon.
I will be battling to win season 18
of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
This is what I came here to do.
I'm so energized to take it into this finale.
I know what I've gotta do. Get ready.
All right, let's go, y'all. Goodbye, main stage.
We'll see you soon. - Oh.
We'll see you in two weeks. - Goodbye.
Main stage.
- We'll see you soon. - See you in two weeks.
- [gasps] - Oh, wow.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
What?
♪ Good luck and don't
♪ Good luck and don't, oh ♪
♪ Good luck and don't F it up ♪
♪ F it up ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck, baby ♪
♪ Good luck and don't F it up, up, up ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ Take the script and flip it ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ Take the script and flip it ♪
♪ 'Cause you're not like other bitches ♪
♪ Show me something different ♪