- Guess who's black in the house.
(Cracker laughing) - Yes.
(upbeat music)
Oh, I'm Monet X Change and we are here at the finale,
girl. - Oh my god,
we're almost done, I'm so excited.
I get to make my own schedule now, bitch.
(Monet laughing)
She's the she-E-O of her own company,
just winging it. - Girl, seeing all
these tight-ass hoes including us that got eliminated,
but here we are. - Oh, girl,
the most eliminated.
(Monet laughs)
Listen, I would have stayed for another episode
but once you are gone, I was like, just eliminate me.
(Monet laughing)
(Cracker laughing)
- Get out of here.
- Bam.
Okay, this is what I wanna ask you.
Is your life any different after Drag Race
or are you just more tired?
Is that the only difference?
- Well, that, of course, very much that,
but also I think social media is the biggest change,
you know what I mean, just navigating that
and the influx of people messaging you
and DMing you and just wanting to say, hey girl,
I know you may not see this but, you know what I mean?
It's all of those things.
We work in New York City so we've always been pretty busy,
you know what you mean? - Right.
- Of course, now we're traveling the world,
going to amazing places like Connecticut
and stuff like that, like, who'd have thought? (laughs)
But now it's like, now we're getting social media
which is a tricky thing.
- Yeah. - How about you?
- Oh, girl, okay, you know what?
I feel the exact same way,
it's just that you had to be, like, nine times as ready
for backlash when you are completely yourself all the time,
which is me, but yeah, I think it's so true
that when you are a New Yorker and you're a New York queen,
you have to be sewing and making hair
and doing stuff all day around the clock.
Now my schedule's actually more relaxing
'cause I'm on a plane like six hours a day
and that's downtime which I've never had before,
like, woo! (Monet laughing)
I have time enough during the day to overdose and recover.
(Monet laughing)
I have so much time.
Okay, you come out in the sponge dress
in the very first episode and Asia didn't like it
because she has such good taste,
I know that hurt your feelings,
but you turned it into an empire.
There's a music video, there's merch.
You probably get more Brillo Pads and sponges--
- [Monet] Girl.
- [Cracker] Than any housekeeper in this goddamn nation.
(Monet laughing)
Tell me about this story, how did this happen?
- We were in that workroom and you saw it.
When Ru came out and announced those challenge
and he brought those carts in, where my mind went,
I was like, okay, what do I see an abundance of
that I will be able to craft something out of,
you know what I mean?
'Cause unlike you, someone who is petite and you could,
and Cracker, you have a great eye for fashion.
You have patterns you can mix and be creative.
I was like, I need to be ridiculous and conceptual
to bring out my word, you know what I mean?
You know I love my little poofs.
(laughs) - Oh.
She cannot be turned away from them, girl.
- I just made this costume on dirt
and I got the ping-pong balls to be suds
and I just made a sponge thing
and now it has taken over the world.
What about you though, I mean, Cracker,
you had some of the greatest fashion in Drag Race history.
You turned out every look every single week
- [Cracker] Well,
This is what I will say. - And they were drooling
over everything you did. - This is what I will say.
I think that I turned out the most me concepts
and fashion is just something
that I'm not interested in, clearly,
otherwise I wouldn't wear pink rhinestones on pink denim,
do you know what I mean? (Monet laughs)
But telling a story and doing Cracker concepts,
I think that's where I really showed myself
and made drag history there,
not to the judges but I think to the fans
and I think it's the same thing
with your old lady titties outfit.
The judges may have been like, I don't know,
but America was like, yes, thank you,
we've been complaining about a lack of diversity
on Drag Race and here it is, thank goodness.
- Now, of course, there were 14 of us on the season,
huge (beep) personalities.
Did anyone surprise you personality-wise?
- Abscro-lutely, yes.
(Monet laughing)
When Blair St. Clair walked in,
I was like, I'm gonna snap this bitch--
- [Monet] Yes.
- [Cracker] With not even two hands,
just one hand-- - Agreed, girl.
- [Cracker] Like an egg, just like (imitates egg smashing).
- [Monet] Bitch, I'm gonna be like Thanos, girl,
in Avengers, she's done,
you know what I mean? - Yes!
Like staples, boing, that was easy, bitch, but no,
she had more grits than a Southern breakfast.
(Monet laughing)
She was such a powerful (beep) woman.
She's just (beep) amazing.
- Yeah.
- So I, complete 180 on her, totally.
- For me, I would say it would be The Vixen.
Even though she came in saying that she's ready to fight,
her outfit for day one was literally falling apart.
I was like, oh, this bitch is either going home today
or maybe tomorrow morning. - Like,
when you said fight, did you mean struggle?
- [Monet] (laughs) Right.
- Like, all my life I had to fight?
- Exactly, exactly,
and then when she pulled that win week two
and I saw how she was,
she came in like her words had (beep) power,
you know what I mean? - Oh, yeah.
- [Monet] She surprised if I gotta be blunt,
yeah. - Absolutely,
and this is what I challenge people
when they talk about The Vixen.
They're like, I don't like her, she, (blows raspberry)
I'm like, okay, well, but go back
to the things she said and find a lie.
- Exactly.
- You may not like the tone
but when she talks about politics
or how media works or how optics works
or what the bitch was doing in the workroom,
you may not like the tone but find the goddamn lie
and whenever she pointed around the room
and was like I know all of y'all said the exact same thing,
the only thing we could reply with was.
- I'm like, where's my cocktail?
- Yeah. (slurping)
- Also Asia, the bitch walked in on day one
in a leather fringe, a Toni Tamar Braxton look.
I was like, what in the Crenshaw Swap Meet
is going on here?
She's going home. - And I was, yeah,
it just surprised me 'cause when she walked in with that,
I thought her outfits would get better from there.
- Right.
- It shocked me they didn't,
(Monet laughing)
just got worse every week.
- I know, the Tweety, you hated the Tweety Bird.
- But America thinks she's being ironic and that's,
they're like, oh, she has such a great sense of humor.
I'm like, no, she thinks this is good.
(Monet laughing)
Y'all think she's joking but she's telling the truth
with these outfits, so, yeah.
For me, one of the reasons that I was able
to survive this season was 'cause you were there--
- Hello.
- And at the end of a long day
I could just sit down next to you and just be like,
I know this person, we've worked together,
we trust each other to support each other,
and how was it being with a New York sister on the season?
- Cracker, we have our show together every week.
You know when I've had it, I know when you've had it.
Literally we are bridesmaids.
We can communicate with just a look.
So it really gave me a lot of solace,
especially when we are--
- Ooh, solace, that's a good word.
- Right? - Yeah.
- I do not think that I would've recovered
from that second lip-sync if you were not there
because I'll never forget it.
After that we went back into the workroom
right after the lip-sync, after the episode,
and I was so down.
I wasn't really even talking and the camera's off,
everything was done,
and you wrote this (beep) eight-page biography
with huge text at the top, 10 things I know about Monet,
and it was these 10 mantras
about things that you like and know about me
and I was like, oh my god,
this is saving me right now in this competition.
If Cracker was not here, bitch,
she was gonna beat Kameron Michaels in the bottom
three weeks in a row and I was gonna go home,
you know what I mean? - Yeah.
- But that literally saved me in the competition
and I never really told you
how much that meant to me, Cracks.
I love you so much.
(Cracker laughing)
Baby. - They treated us so bad.
You're the only survivor left. - (Monet laughing)
- Oh, Color Purple with me, girl.
(both moaning)
- I can't do this, I'm white.
(both laughing)