When Shangela stepped on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, she made history. After a stand out cameo appearance in the Academy Award-winning remake of A Star Is Born, starring as a voice actor in Netflix’s Super Drags, and a vocal appearance on Ariana Grande’s single “NASA,” she became the first drag queen to walk on the Oscars red carpet in drag. All of this, from what started off as a very abbreviated stint on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s second season — although she did return quite a few times.

“I woke up asking, ‘Did it really all just happen?’” Shangela tells Out Monday morning after her big Oscars debut. She walked the carpet alongside Jenifer Lewis, who is a close friend and who once took her in as a roommate. “I have no voice right now after screaming and dancing at the afterparty.”

Here we talk to the star — and Diego Montoya who designed her gown — about everything that went into the big day, and what she got up to right after. “It was a moment I hope really inspires people to never give up on their dreams,” she says. Shangela is currently developing her own one woman show and a comedy special “Shangela is Shook” in the works.