Miz Cracker: 'I don't need a crown ... I just need a pair of heels'

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 08: TV personality Miz Cracker attends VH1's "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 10 Finale at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on June 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 08: TV personality Miz Cracker attends VH1's "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 10 Finale at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on June 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: David Livingston, Getty Images Photo: David Livingston, Getty Images Image 1 of / 26 Caption Close Miz Cracker: 'I don't need a crown ... I just need a pair of heels' 1 / 26 Back to Gallery

Miz Cracker's sharp wit and campy looks positioned her as an early frontrunner on "RuPaul's Drag Race." She was smart, funny and turned Miz Cookie into a woman during the makeover challenge.

Cracker calls the transformation "the best moment of the season." Many would likely agree.

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Ironically, Cracker crumbled when she had to channel her inner saboteur. A frequent critique was that she was her own worst critic. She tried valiantly but was no match for lip-sync assassin Kameron Michaels.

Your tagline was, "I'm thin, white and salty." But ...

Did I lie?

Well, you didn't seem ...

Oh, now you're calling me fat!

You weren't particularly salty about anything. Are you now?

America knows that I am very salty about Asia (O'Hara's) comment that I'm not a star. Of course, I was especially back then. So I guess in these next weeks we're gonna find out, "Was Asia right? Or was Cracker right in her assessment of herself?"

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It seemed like her comment really hit you in an emotional place.

Oh, absolutely. There's nothing that I like to do more than take other people's critiques personally and add them to my own self-criticism. I took it to heart. I was like, "Oh, here's a cudgel! Let me beat myself with it."

You said during "Untucked" that you brought it up to Asia. Did she apologize?

Weeelll, she didn't apologize. She said she was sorry that I was hurt by it. But she didn't say that she was wrong.

The "I'm sorry if you took it that way" apology.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm sorry you couldn't take what I said. Not in that tone. But translate that into Texas pageant. It was that, "Why do you make me hurt you?" type thing.

How does it all feel today now that you've had time away from the experience?

As the Nancy Kerrigan of Season 10 -- no. Yesterday, I came back to my hotel and cried until I choked on my tongue. But today I woke up ready to take on my mission, which is to use drag to make the world a better place. I don't need a crown for that. I just need a pair of heels.

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I think we've seen this season more than ever that "Drag Race" can be a vehicle for a lot of important conversations.

Oh, absolutely, thanks in part to The Vixen, who was never afraid to make a conversation into something about big issues in the world, not just big issues in the work room.

Were you surprised to end up in the bottom this week against Kameron Michaels, who was making a third appearance?

When I did the math, it looked like I was gonna be in the bottom for that episode and that if I wanted to stay, I would have to fight for it. One thing I learned about "Drag Race" is that there's no logic to it, so never walk into something thinking you have it in the bag. I knew that I would have to crush Kameron if I wanted to stay.

Did the discussions with Ru about being your own worst critic and overthinking things help -- or did they add pressure to perform well?

If someone grabs you by your lapels and screams, "Be yourself" into your face, is it easier to be yourself then? I don't know. Though I do appreciate the enthusiasm of the critique.

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Have you since been able to overcome those challenges?

Being my own worst critic is a habit 34 years in the making. For anyone to pretend in any way that they changed as a person in a few episodes is absurd. But I did take that project, and I'm working on it because self-knowledge means success, and success means money, and I have a sick mother whose medical bills I have to pay. So for now, self-knowledge means caring for my mother.

What was your proudest moment on the show?

My proudest was when Miz Cookie turned around and saw herself in the mirror because she's a womaaaaan. I told y'all drag was transformative and quodum est demonstrandum -- Q.E.D., bitch. It wasn't about me. The moment was made by her happiness. You cannot tell me that any other makeover person was happier than she was. She's a woman.