- If she called me and said,
"Grab a shovel. We gotta dig and hide a body."
I would do that for her.
I'm like, "I already have our alibi.
We were making chocolate chip cookies,
watching Steel Magnolias."
- Absolutely. That's believable.
[cheery music]
Well, I met Darienne Lake in 1999
in Rochester, New York. I had just come out of the closet.
I just moved to Rochester, New York
for my job at the time and I went out to the club
and there was this beauty
and she was doing Wonder Woman
in this tiny little Wonder Woman outfit
and she was, just killing it and I just fell in love.
- Okay. So, my favorite thing
about Naysha and Lala is absolutely nothing.
When Naysha, ever since,
literally from the first day I met you at Roscoe's,
we hit it off like we had known each other for years
and we'd be kind of a geeky and like,
if you watch like me and Naysha's relationship,
we're always coming for each other, but it's like,
like funny, like witty stuff, you know?
- Yeah, yeah, totally.
- And she can keep up with a bad bitch like me.
- [Naysha] Period.
- So. Yeah. Anyways.
[Naysha and Lala laughing]
- I love that she couldn't even fish that thought.
- You're right. - Girl, she's like.
Yeah.
First impression of Lala and Candy.
There's one word that I want to use for it. Let's see.
Anti-climactic. No.
[Lala and Kandy screaming]
- My friendship with you means a lot to me
because I love your wisdom that you give me
and I love the fact that you keep it real.
Definitely. I cherish my friendship, love.
- Naysha. She is the beauty.
Okay. She's Miss Continental for Miss Continental
so she's always poise and Naysha. She's funny.
Yeah. And she's real shady
and I be trying to get some tips from her with the shade.
Okay.
- Monica, she is,
of anyone in the cast, the one that I feel has this,
the biggest heart and she's an absolute beautiful soul.
She's a fierce mother for sometimes too,
you gotta watch out, she'll get you.
But honestly, I just,
I gravitated immediately to her positivity
and her energy and she just gets it.
- I love everything about Kandy, like her big personality.
She's a great entertainer as well.
- Oh, she's a big, I said big.
- Her huge personality
And she's very talent, a beautiful soul.
And like, this is my girl.
Like, we've been ever since season 13.
[cheery music]
- Compliments for the girls.
- How do you spell your name, Kandy?
- [Kandy] K.
- I'm trying to get 'em together and be polite.
- My compliment for Naysha is pretty obvious.
The beauty, I said it earlier.
Most beautiful soul I've ever seen.
Like, seriously, like the most beautiful
and it's natural, for the most part.
- I'm sorry, you kind of coughed a little bit.
You should clear your throat before you say that.
- It's natural
- I wrote, "Bitch."
[Lala wheezing]
But it's, Latrice Royale once said,
"Bitch, being in total control of herself."
- Perfect. - And I feel like,
Naysha, whatever Naysha wants, if she's not gonna get it,
she will get the girls round up.
- [Lala] Yeah.
- And we gonna end up getting it.
- [Lala] Yeah.
- For Darienne Lake.
Darienne Lake, my brother, my sister, my family.
We are truly family back in Rochester, New York,
wherever we go. What a gift to be a part of.
To have this experience with you.
She's the biggest penny pinching miser you'll ever meet
but yet is extremely generous of heart.
An incredible performer and an inspiration to me.
Helps me tremendously to find the confidence
to power through whatever adversity
that I may see in my life.
She's been through so much ups and downs,
just like the roller coasters at Darienne Lake.
She makes it all the way through
and comes out always winning in the end.
- For Darienne, I put money. I put, I said,
"You inspire me to be more open
and free with my thoughts and my words and my humor."
- So, Kandy, I said, funny.
And why I say funny is because Kandy can light up a room
like, Kandy brings joy to people.
Her energy is just contagious.
And I say, funny, because it just sums it all up. Funny.
- Okay, so I just did one word.
This one, she's just this, has this like big old.
I want to call you up front because deep down inside,
she's one of the most empathetic
and sweetest people that you'll ever meet.
There's certain times that we'll cut up
and maybe read someone and if she doesn't agree
and she's like, "Well, no."
She's actually really sweet and really nice.
And I'm like, "Who the fuck is this?"
- For Monica. She is honest.
She's so honest with who she is and true.
Her face has, it just holds so much beauty.
She can't hold anything else back
when she's feeling a certain way.
- My compliment from Monica, you are a beautiful flower.
You have such a beauty that walks into a room
but what's even bigger than that beauty is
the energy that you give.
It's just palpable. It's welcoming and kind.
And I do enjoy the confidence that goes behind it.
I do enjoy the sass.
I do enjoy, and that is beautiful too.
- I don't think I've ever met anyone
that has anything negative to say about Lala.
I think her energy is so electric
that people fall in love with her.
- I agree 100% with what Kandy said.
You have a contagious laughter.
Your energy is so great.
But the one thing that I put on here was entertainer.
Because if you have not seen this queen ever perform,
you are missing out
because she is one of the best entertainers
out there. Period.
And I don't say drag queen, I say entertainer
because this is an entertainer.
You are entertained
from the very beginning all the way to the end.
You really get the Lala Experience.
- The Lala Ri Experience.
- Especially coming from you two
who have been in the business like, way longer than me.
- And she's been in the business for like 30 years.
I've only been here for less than 10.
- Kasha is the most motivational person that I know.
She's so driven. She is so, a workhorse queen.
A hundred percent.
She really wants you to be a better person.
She'll remind you when you're not being a better person
as well. Especially driven.
And I did drive her around a lot when she did that DWI.
- Yeah. - But.
- I have one word for you. It literally is role model.
You're such a role model.
You inspire not only myself but so many young people
with everything what you do with your books
and just your beautiful soul, you and your husband.
I mean, I love watching your guys stuff.
It makes me happy.
She's definitely, you're such a huge role model in my life.
- I love you.
- I love you too.
- So sweet.
- If she called me and said,
"Grab a shovel and we gotta dig and hide a body."
I would do that for her.
I'm like, "I already have our alibi.
We were making chocolate chip cookies,
watching Steel Magnolias."
- Absolutely. That's believable.
[cheery music]
- What was the most emotional moment during the season?
- [Kandy] Ooh.
- Ooh.
- I think without giving too much away,
I think, the Untuckeds.
- [Group] Yes.
- Absolutely, yes.
- Definitely. - Good answer.
- Sure. Especially-- - Sure.
- After a couple of House of Love cocktails.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- The tangerine flavor to be exact.
- [Darienne] Yes.
- Yeah.
- What is the biggest lesson you learned
from your OG season that you brought to All Stars?
[Group bellowing]
And that's easy.
Looking at Kandy be herself the entire season,
it taught me, be yourself and have fun.
- Confidence. - Oh my goodness.
- Confidence. Yes. - Yes.
- People have this thing where if you're too overconfident,
they see as cocky.
I was a cocky bitch on 13 and I'm gonna be even more of
a cockier bitch on All Stars 8.
- Yes, baby.
- And I'm not joking either.
- But still very sweet.
- And humble. And humble.
- Yeah, humble.
- She's one of the sweet sweets ever.
- Who are you most excited to compete against?
Darienne Lake.
- Yay.
- I mean, you know, I know that we can compete.
We can fight and then go out for a burger afterwards.
- Yeah. - I mean, that's family.
It's not a problem to have the competition
and to cut each other all up
and then go for pancakes or whatever.
I keep adding the food in there. We might wanna.
[group laughing]
We need to stop that.
But yeah, definitely Darienne Lake.
- You know what says, compete against
and that just sounds, to me, just so like pointed,
like I want to compete against you,
but I like more compete with
because I really wanted to compete with my peers,
with friends of mine, with family.
- Right. - Yes.
- I've known Monica since what, 12?
- 20 years. - 12 years old.
Like, it's been forever.
- Yes. - So to compete
alongside family is great.
And then this loud mouth over here, it's just,
I was super excited to meet and compete with.
[cheery music]
- Best Dress. - Okay.
- I mean, Naysha. You know?
- Best dressed.
- I mean, we love her.
- Between Naysha and Monica.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- I think Naysha. - Naysha.
- I think Naysha. You always look prim and ready to like.
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- Yay, Naysha! - Naysha.
[group clapping]
- I didn't expect this.
- [Interviewer] Who do you think should win class clown?
- I think I know who. - That's--
- Yes.
Definitely, yeah. - I'm probably.
- Here you go.
Here's your class clown sash.
- Well, you know, I was trained
by the best clown there is in this business.
Miss Bianca Del Rio.
- Oh, she the clown.
- What clowns do?
- [Interviewer] Who's your biggest flirt?
- Oh, I think.
- I mean. - I think it's Monica.
- It's obvious. - It's Monica.
- It's Monica, for sure. - But Daddy's--
- It depends on. If you catch Lala on a good day at the bar.
- Oh. - Oh.
- Stop talking about that on camera, honey.
- She's a flirt. She just goes, gets it.
- She's Miss Congeniality, baby. Okay.
- Let's spread the love.
- [Interviewer] Who is most likely to succeed?
- Kasha Davis.
She is so powerful and she is so,
she's got her Imagination Station TV show
that she's working on and just so, so successful.
And especially in the face of what's going on
with people right now.
- And her serving a journey of sobriety. That's--
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- Enough alone.
- That's so sweet.
And that's also because I don't have good makeup
and I can't lipstick. [Kandy screaming]
- You know that's something, honey.
- I mean.
- Hell no.
- Yeah. - Right.
- [Interviewer] Who's the best lip-syncer?
- Lala Ri.
I mean, I'm great at lip-syncing but Lala will give you.
- Yeah. Lala Ri's value. - An experience.
[group chattering]
- I've always wanted this moment. How you put it on?
- The Lala Ri experience.
- That's the wrong way but.
- That's the wrong way.
- I got you, sis. I got you.
- We got you a great lip-syncer, not a great student.
- We did not say the smartest.
- Miss something of.
- You can tell she's never won a pageant.
- Never won a pageant. Never won a pageant.
- [Interviewer] Who has best hair and makeup?
- Best hair and makeup. - The boss.
- The material. [all laughing]
- You can say everything about me.
My hair is always on point. I'm always on point.
- I'll say this, the one person,
and she knows I've asked her,
her skin always looks so right.
I asked her so many times, "How do you do this?
How do you do that? And how do you do that?"
Because it looks so good and it always looks this good.
I mean, she's been like this for like--
- Even close up. Yeah.
- I even touched up today.
- I said it to her earlier.
As soon we walked, I said, gorgeous.
And you do something with blush that nobody else can do.
You wear the whole palette.
- Oh, stay tuned for that one.
- Got it? - There you go.
There we go.
- Swinger, two colors wins.
- Yeah. The true pageant wave is like.
- We're the queens of RuPaul Drag Race All Star Season 8.
- [All] Thank you, Glamour, for testing our Friendship. Woo!
- Bitch.
[cheery music]