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Now sissy that walk.

[cheering]

Trend alert.

I'm new to a lot of things.

I ain't new to stunning.

I always joked about running
away and joining the circus,

and I basically have.
[laughs]

Category is New Jersey/
Atlanta housewife.

♪ She's a super queen ♪

Naomi's such a whore.
I love it.

I don't need
a lot of communication.

I just need to, like,
there to be a plan.

Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.

Thank God.

Oh, send me home!

♪ And if I fly or if I fall ♪

[deep voice] Yeah, can I have
a double cheeseburger

with cheese only
and two medium fries?

Like that, though, bitch?

A sweet tea, two apple pies,

and, uh, a McChicken,
no mayonnaise.

[laughs]

I would, like, change my voice,
because I would, like--

I don't know, if I thought

my food was gonna
get spat in or something.

Being gay is hard, okay!

There's a lot of things
you have to worry about.

[laughs]

When you care.

But now I don't
give a fuck, so...

Nope.
I'm very self-sufficient.

If I can get it up high enough,

then I can grab it from the top.

I don't need nobody's damn help!

Here we go.

Oh, yay, you can look at my
ratty, end-of-the-show ponytail

that I have so much time
to do my hair

because I'm right next
to the closing number.

Take a right,
take another right, take a left,

climb up the mountain,
sail over the sea,

take another right,
take another left,

climb through the cave,
and there, here we are.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the muscle queen

turned bodybuilder Barbie,
Kameron Michaels!

[cheers and applause]

I'm sure I would be
a completely different person

had I grown up in a larger city.

I think I was kind of teetering
on the last generation

where we really had to hide.

I grew up in a small town
in a Southern state.

You know, I was picked on,
made fun of,

and people talked
about my voice,

people talked about
the way I walked.

Everything
that was said about me

to make me feel
like I didn't belong.

♪ It's a brand new day ♪

♪ This is the beginning ♪

I think Kameron is a way out,

because she allows me
to be crazy and spontaneous,

which I'm not usually
all the time.

♪ The beginning ♪

When I was younger,
I always knew

I was meant to do something more
than what I was doing,

and now I'm living the goal.

♪ Right, right ♪

♪ Get it, get it,
g-g-get it, get it ♪

♪ Right, right ♪

♪ Get it, get it,
g-g-get it, get it ♪

♪ Right, right ♪

♪ Get it, get it,
g-g-get it, get it ♪

♪ Right, right ♪

Vanessa Vanjie Mateo!

That ho that runs your anus.

That's my opening monologue.

[laughs]
Your whole monologue?

That's my open monologue.

You wanna have half
of this shot with me?

-This is the problem.
-No, no, no.

-She likes to feed me tequila.
-Yeah, and--

I either cry
or take my clothes off.

So now I know why
I was giving it to her.

-Cheers! Aah!
-Cheers!

I enjoy Kameron.

And when we get
to share dressing rooms,

we kiki and cut up.

Life's too short for bad sex,
you guys!

This is the education channel.
We gotta teach them.

Make sure you douche
and make the water run clear.

Now, this is my real tip.

Okay, I learned this, you know,
later on in the future.

You do
your first few douche--

shove it up in your ass and
let the water come out clear.

Shove it up your ass,
let the water come out clear.

Your last one,
do a few drops of Listerine.

You do a few shots--

a few drops and the Listerine
in that water, let me tell you.

When that boy
or whoever get up in there,

you done got 'em

and they get that experience,

they gonna call you, bitch.

Is it for the coolness
or the taste?

Just for fresh,
the coolness, the taste.

They gonna end up,
they're, like...

And they're gagged,
and you're like, "Mm-hmm."

In high school, I was told

that you had to put Listerine
on your dick

before you got blowjobs.

So any time I'd get ready
to go to a party

I'd, like, swish my dick
in some Listerine.

-What?
-But it never got sucked,

so I stopped doing that
as an adult.

Don't wash your dick
with Listerine.

-Oh, my God, now, that, I--
-It'll leave you disappointed.

[Yvie laughs]

I don't know any of you anymore.

We're gonna edit that out.

But, yes,
Listerine and dishwater.

Well, I went
to a private school,

so we didn't have sex ed.

That was against the rules,
so...

And sex with men definitely
wasn't a thing where I'm from.

And even in school, they--

Sex Ed with Kam.

Sex Ed with Kanji.

And we would even--

Wow presents plus.
Sign up now.

The cut-up now.

You know what?
That's a fierce idea.

And we probably will recreate
the situations for y'all.

Kameron Michaels,
dancer, showgirl.

Always kills it onstage.

Yvie: Cool, mysterious,
like, a hard-to-crack nut.

But, like, when you do,
she just, like, spills over.

She's a candy queen.
She can do it all.

She might not be able
to do it all, but...

Kameron Michaels,
that's my ride or die.

Oh!

Probably the quietest person

I have ever met
in my entire life.

She is very quiet and reserved,

which is funny,
because it's, like,

such a juxtaposition
of her character online.

Kameron sent me home,
so fuck her.

That's all I have to say.

No respect around here.

None!

-Damn it!
-What, girl?

Guess I have a mole tonight.

That's what happens.

You fuck up your makeup,
you give yourself a mole.

Are you giving yourself a mole
tonight over a pimple?

-No.
-Yeah.

My makeup doesn't smudge.

-Oh!
-Ugh.

Yet.

Damn it!

Never fails.

I think that I'm not as quiet
as what was seen on television.

I did things to avoid the
cameras at times on the show.

I was shy. I took off
my mic sometimes.

You know, there is a certain
character that you give,

but also a certain character

that they are trying
to portray for you.

Kameron definitely
has two sides to him,

like the side where, like,
just there to do the gig.

And then, like, it's so funny
when the camera comes on

and the phones come out,
like, we get this butterfly.

It's just like this
completely different person.

Hi, hello, how are you?

I'm just a woman.

So much work right now,

I'm so busy. Oh, my God.

I have so many things to do.
What am I gonna do next?

Without meaning to, I'm sure
that my persona was created

so that I can
come outside of my shell.

Probably not intentionally,

but I'm glad that it's there
so that I can.

I'm a woman today,

and you can't tell me
anything else.

That's literally how I feel!

I know. I feel like
such a woman today.

She's having a pretty day,
so it, like, radiates.

Just because Kameron seemed
chill on TV or whatever

doesn't mean she's like
a zombie person in real life.

There's people
that will never accept me,

that will always think that
I'm the quiet, introverted one,

that I don't speak,
that I don't talk.

And that's okay.

You can't please
everyone in the world.

I don't really, like, read

a lot of my comments anymore,

because I just don't care.

No one's ever here to zip me.

Where is everyone
when I need them?

I need a zip! Goddamn!

We've all had different journeys
to get where we are,

and I'm doing the best
with the journey that I've had.

You look...decent.

Aw, thank you. About time.

Kameron Michaels
is my other persona,

and she allows me
to be an extrovert,

even though I'm introverted.

The part I love the most

is that
I get to walk out onstage.

That kind of
makes up for the fact

that I didn't get to be seen
as much on my season.

In my number, I am Mars,
the bringer of war.

So I am hard and edgy and loud.

I wanted to do, like, spears.

I'm not loud, but
I like to be loud onstage.

I drop myself in
from the ceiling 40 feet

and land on the stage.

I don't think about it,
but it's a little dangerous.

So, like, I guess my life
kind of depends on these people.

Is there a way to make her
fall in from the ceiling?

And I went,
"Well, now, by falling,

you don't really mean falling."

He goes, "No,
I want her to, like, fall

like she's landing on a mat.

Dan, you wanna take that?

Kameron enters from the ceiling.

She drops from the center point.

Honestly,
this is the scariest part.

Kameron has to spin

about 30 to 40 feet
up in the air

in the dark
while the projector plays.

And then she has to drop
on a cue,

and she pulls the lever herself.

Every single night.

I could never. Never.

Uh-uh. Mm-mm.
Not my gay ass.

Nope.

And sometimes
there'll be, like, mishaps.

My manager asked me,
"Are you scared of heights."

I said, "No,
not that I am aware of."

So there's a lot of safety
consideration we have to take.

The first 15 to 20 feet
of the drop

is completely free.

There's no descender,
there's nothing on her.

This tour, something's
happened with the cables,

and I keep turning around
in circles.

She can't control it,

because she's literally up there
on a wire in a harness.

So if it decides to turn around,
she's, like, well.

My cables for my number
are twisting,

and they've twisted
the entire tour so far.

So when I'm hanging backwards
and I fall backwards,

I'm literally in the air
40 feet, swinging my legs,

trying to turn myself around
towards the audience.

And today, it kept
spinning me around backwards,

so I literally just gave up and
just dropped backwards today,

and then, like, turned around.

I was just over it today.

New day, new city tomorrow.
Well, not tomorrow,

because we have a day off
tomorrow. Thank God.

I get hooked up right here
and yanked up into the ceiling

to just hang there

like a bird
on an electrical wire.

I don't know.

Something funny,
something clever.

And I pull the ripcord
and fall to my death.

Or so I hope every night.

I'm putting together
all of this crap

for this damn number,

so I spend my nights
putting together light bulbs.

Who am I supposed to be
so I know who?

Darth--Darth who?

Darth that person.

-Darth Vader?
-Yeah, him, too.

No one is speaking to you,
Kameron Michaels, okay?

Hey, I need as much airtime
as I can get,

so if means stealing
somebody else's,

that's what I'm gonna do!

You should have got your airtime
on your season, toots.

Yeah, well, now I'm gonna
have to make up for it.

Okay, well,
that's not how that--

that's not
exactly how that works.

I'm not popular enough
for All Stars.

No. [chuckles]

Asia is my favorite.

She's probably the one
that I'm closest with.

If I like you
or I know you well enough,

I am mean.

Shut up, Asia.

-What?
-Nothing.

Kameron, pick your battles!

I'm your only friend here.

-Literally your only friend.
-Really?

Yeah, I am
your only friend here.

Vanjie, are you my friend?

No, of course she's not!

Girl, she don't
even know your name.

Kameron is like
my little sense of home.

Kim Chi thinks
you're the merch girl.

Kim Chi said she's my friend.

Well, Asia and I love
poking fun at each other.

Like, there's a sliver of truth

in everything
that we talk about.

I'm literally her only friend,

and yet she always
tries to come for me,

which I don't really understand.

You know, like,
she's got enough enemies,

and she wants to--

Hi, Kameron.

Who you talking about?

I was just talking about
this girl I know.

What's her name?

Uh, uh, I think
her name is Dane.

-That's like a boy's name.
-Yeah, it is.

Uh, yeah, a lot of stuff
about her is like a boy.

-Oh, really?
-A lot. Yep.

-Uh-huh?
-She's--yeah, she's not--

she's not the most--
she's not the most feminine.

She considers y'all friends?

She should.

She should, but you know,
her perception is kind of askew.

Yeah, Kameron,
get ready for your number.

I hope the apparatus works.

I hope a black drag queen

hasn't been up there in
the ceiling tampering with it.

They're gonna
hook these onto me,

and then
I'm going to go up there.

It just feels really cool.

I don't remember drag queens
falling from the ceiling,

so that's fun.

Yo, this stunt is everything!

Three minutes.

As a perfectionist,

I want everything to be perfect
at all times.

[cheers and applause]

Did you get that on film?

What happened?

Backwards again.

I'm used to it happening now, so
today I, like, landed backwards,

and then
just, like, spun around.

It felt kind of
cool to do that,

so you know what?

If I land backward from now on,

I'm just gonna turn around
and hit a pose.

Hopefully I land all right.

[cheers and applause]

I think for me,
it's never going to be perfect.

I'm never going to be
the best dancer,

I'm never gonna be
the most muscular,

I'm never gonna be any of these
things that I'm working for,

and that's okay.

For a long time,
a lot of us struggle

with wanting to be the best
at something.

And there are so many amazingly
talented people in the world.

But you can be
the best that you can be,

and I think that's a struggle

that a lot of us
have to get over,

and that's something
that I've finally accepted

and been okay with.

I'm never gonna be
the prettiest one,

but I can be the prettiest me,

and that's just how it is.

[cheers and applause]

Oh, my God, go follow Vanjie.

She's more interesting
than I am.

And she's way prettier.

That's not true.

Bye!

-Tonight? You mean always.
-Always.

Always. Always ready first.

What are y'all talking about?

Her drink of choice.

Which is?

The tears of my enemies.

Or the tears of my friends.
That's even better.

What friends do you have
besides Jeremy?

You see?
And everybody wonders why

I'm in a bad mood all the time.

Let's be realistic.

You prefer your life
without friends,

because you wanna do what you
wanna do when you wanna do it.

You don't wanna
have to explain to nobody,

or have anybody upset
because you didn't invite them.

That's how you prefer it.

I'll give you that.

I don't ever
wanna answer to anyone.

And if Kameron's feelings
were hurt,

she was specifically
not gonna tell anybody.

[laughs]

So...

I still regress sometimes

to wanting to be by myself
and wanting to be alone

just because of my childhood.

I was a pretty outgoing child.

I think going through the trauma
of being a gay youth

really changed me
and made me more introverted.

I would just eat lunch by myself
in the yearbook room.

My kind of go-to defense
mechanism for a long time

was just stay away
from other people.

Um, I adjusted, so I know

that a lot of other friends
that I've had

that had the same struggles
never recovered from that,

and they still tend
to be extremely introverted.

So I know that I call myself
an introvert,

but I'm a reformed introvert.

But I think for the fans
that I gained after the show,

they've learned
that I am a normal personal.

[cheers and applause]

At the meet & greets,

a lot of people say
they're there for you.

Yeah. I think the fans
relate to me the most.

They call me
the "relatable queen."

I don't live
this alternative life.

Like, I'm pretty honest

about what goes on in my life
every day.

Wow.

Who's your favorite?

-Kameron Michaels!
-Yeah.

Kameron all the way.

Oh, because
she's the muscle queen.

And I think the fans
really relate to that.

-Kameron.
-Kameron Michaels.

It's cool to walk up to someone

and, like, have had
the same experience as them

and be able to talk about it.

Even if it keeps me

from being the most popular
or the most famous,

the most grand or diva-ish,

it's, like,
I don't care about that.

I wanna be, like,
an everyday person, too.

Morning.

It is 11:00.
I'm already late.

I should have been
eating breakfast by 10 A.M.,

yet here we are and it's 11:00.

So I'm gonna go find
a local gym,

which is what I do
every single day.

Seattle, Portland,
all these places.

There's no rainbow roads
in Nashville.

You should take notes.

I grew up in a Southern state,

where even to this day
it's still not very acceptable,

like, to walk on the street
and be exactly who you are.

Just to give you a glimpse
into where I'm from,

the town 30 minutes south of me
was where the KKK was founded.

Once high school ended
and I found a gay community,

it made it a lot easier.

Here we are,
my home away from home,

my workout for today in Seattle.

Today I'm doing chest,
shoulders,

and a little bit of cardio,
because I need it.

Tour food, candy.

The craft service table
really gets me.

I've been better this time,

but if I eat
a really healthy meal,

I'm gonna walk by
the craft service table

and shove a handful of M&Ms
in my mouth.

It's just gonna happen.

There's no way around it.

I started doing drag
when I was 18.

I didn't start going to the gym
until I was 25.

If one would have came
before the other,

I don't think the other
would have happened,

so I'm glad drag came first.

Yeah. Like, a lot of the girls
would be, like,

"You have to cover up your arms.

"Your arms,
your shoulders are too big now.

You look like a man."

Fit girls look awesome, I think,

especially with, like--
if they look strong,

I think that looks great,
so whatever.

Again, who gives a fuck
what other people think?

Do what you wanna do.

I'll never look like Naomi.

Like, I'll never
be able to wear, like,

a teeny-tiny spaghetti strap

and have these, like,
supermodel-slender arms.

So I'm never gonna
look like that onstage,

and that's okay with me.
[laughs]

And now I'm not gonna shower
before I get in drag,

because drag is just as sweaty.

So for all of you that come say
hi to me at the meet & greet,

I'm sweaty from the gym.

I just douse myself in perfume
so I don't stink.

It just makes no sense.
I'm not gonna shower

before I put on sweaty drag
I wore the night before.

I got to find out
so much about Kameron,

about all her preferences
in life.

She reminds me of, like,
one of those Sweet 16 girls,

because she's, like,
everything must be perfect.

Like, she has to have her way.

-Geo!
-Coming!

Is this hair on the left side
gonna fall?

My left or your left?

-Like, right here.
-Oh, it's the same.

No. It's secure down here.

-It's just, like, out.
-Gotcha.

You put texture?

-Yeah, it's texture.
-Uh-huh.

It's, like, just threw it up
after the gym,

and threw on a dress
to go party.

Very that.

[laughs]

Clean that up.

Watch someone fall.
Watch someone fall.

[sighs]

Where are the drinks?

See, you can't even
give anybody

a fucking compliment
in this building.

Don't ever tell a drag queen

something specific that you like
that they did today,

because that means
the other 364 days of the year,

they didn't do it right.

Don't ever compliment
a drag queen like that.

Or, like, "I like
your makeup today."

"Why? What was wrong with it
yesterday?

"Did it not look good
yesterday?

It just looks good today"

Why do you say that
like it doesn't usually?

What did I tell you?

What just happened here?

What just happened here
on this day?

-What did you say?
-Your makeup looks so good.

And what did she say?

Why don't you
tell that to me normally?

My home city.
We're in Nashville today.

Just to, like, walk out onstage
in the TPAC Theater,

which is, like, where I came

and saw, like,
Phantom of the Opera,

and, like,
all these, like, plays

with my family
when I was little,

when I was a kid,

Now I'm on that stage.
That's really cool.

[cheers and applause]

Just the adrenaline that you got

from being onstage
in front of people,

whether I looked good,
or whether people cared or not,

the feeling of being up there,

I knew that's where
I was supposed to be.

[cheers and applause]

[cheers and applause]

There's also another star
from my season here tonight,

from the finale.

My grandma's
in the audience somewhere.

Can everybody say "Hi, Edith?"

Edith. E-D-I, Edith.

On the count of three.
One, two, three!

-Hi, Edith!
-Hi, Edith!

[cheers and applause]

I failed speech class
in high school.

Now I walk out,
I'm not scared at all.

So it's really cool.

I'd love you guys to scream
Werq the World

as loud as you can.

One, two, three.

-Werq the world!
-Werq the world!

Signing off in Nashville,
this is Kameron Michaels.

Bye, adios,

how are you,
and goodbye.

I don't know what that is.

We're doing things

that have never been
done before with drag queens

on a scale like this,
and it's really cool

that a lot of kids
are inspired by us.

They are learning more to be
themselves and be who they are.

That's a really cool aftershock
effect from the show for me.

[screaming and cheering]