Miz Cracker has missed out on the final (Picture: VH1)

RuPaul’s Drag Race returned from a week’s hiatus to drop a huge shocker as we head into the final episodes.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

Sadly, it was Miz Cracker who failed to make the top four, as the frontrunner lost a lip sync battle against Kameron Michaels following an ‘inner saboteur’ challenge.

But Cracker is ready to move on – now she’s cried her eyes out.


Speaking to Metro.co.uk, the Harlem queen said: ‘Today, I’m ready to move forward with my life and my career and my mission. Yesterday, I came back to the hotel and ugly cried until I almost choked on my own tongue.

Cracker lost out in a lip sync against Kameron (Picture: VH1)

‘I was shocked because my first runway was loved so much, but they hated the second. I think it was in the bottom two because the top five were so close, they had to find fault with some fucking thing. I don’t think it was wrong for Kameron and I to be in the bottom, and we both deserved a chance to fight for our spot.’



The 34-year-old was a frontrunner throughout season ten thanks to her quirky costumes and razor-sharp wit, but only won one maxi challenge, the week before she was sent home.

She said: ‘I promised my fans that I would gain the crown so I could stand up for drag that’s more than just an Instagram thing. And I feel like I let those people down in a huge way. Now it’s my responsibility to stand up for them without the crown.

‘I want to stand up for the drag that runs in my drag family’s blood. I’m Bob The Drag Queen’s daughter, and if anyone can prove that Drag Race is not just about make-up and clothes, it’s Bob. She looks bedraggled, and she won because she had an incredible presence. That is the heart of drag – not the Monique Heart, the heart.’

Cracker, real name Maxwell Heller, is already on many wishlists for All Stars 4, but while she would be honoured to be invited back, she has other plans first.

The queen told us: ‘It would be a wonderful thing to do All Stars, but we are in a world right now where there are still countries were queer people are mistreated and killed. There are so many social topics I want to explore and I wanted to get started – like I’m going to teach workshops for drag queens who are living underground. That stuff has to take priority right now.’

That doesn’t mean the Cracker brand will be taking a backseat, though: ‘My own drag is about teaching other people to do drag. So if I teach other people, like I did with Miz Cookie, that’s not putting my drag in the backseat, that’s putting my drag in the driver’s seat. Drag is not all about you, drag is about us, it’s about queer people and queer allies.’

But there’s one thing she has to clear up before embarking on her mission – her and Aquaria are not doppelgangers, ladies.

She said: ‘If there’s anything that was clear, it’s that Aquaria and I could not be any more different in our personalities and appearances than we are. We had similar eyebrows one day. Both Aquaria and I are looking forward to a time when we never hear the other’s name ever again.’



Good luck on that one.

RuPaul’s Drag Race streams on Fridays on Netflix, and airs Thursday night on VH1 in the States.

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