So good to just relax.
[HUMMING]
[EXHALE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I love this.
Where did you get this from?
Oh, this is vintage.
[LAUGHTER]
From my closet, you b-[MUTED].
ALEXIS MICHELLE: Oh, you started without us.
Hi.
ALEXIS MICHELLE: Oh my god.
You look good.
Do you all remember the one and only Laura and Adam?
Oh, Laura.
Surprise!
- Hello. - Oh my god.
Oh.
I'm Alexis.
You know what I thought right when we met her?
She's a great listener.
Yeah.
As soon as we started talking to her, she was like so-- like,
eye contact was great.
I'm like, this woman is taking this all in.
You called us.
Yes, I need the help of the Queens.
I need you to help me understand my son.
He's been dressing in drag, sort of in his room,
working up to feeling comfortable.
Here is a woman, a mother who is so willing and so eager
to be there for her child.
To be a better mother.
So tell me the emotional part.
What is being a drag queen?
She was willing to like kind of get out of her comfort zone.
She was willing to receive our help.
And she was such a great listener.
Watching Laura go through the transformation
from the day we met her, she really appreciated
that drag is an art form.
And she kept saying it by the end.
She goes, I understand the craft, the work ethic
and the creativeness that really goes into
and the hard work that comes into being a drag artist.
Right.
We definitely saw a real evolution in her.
- Yeah. - Cause she didn't get it.
But I think spending time with us,
she understood that like we're talented.
We're passionate about what we do.
And that we put a lot into it.
It's a labor of love.
It's so interesting.
Because she had to go through the process with us.
Really listen.
You know, she had so many questions to ask.
And it's almost like we were like this dictionary and like--
THORGY THOR: She's like, what does this mean?
What is this?
THORGY THOR: Why would you do this?
Why do this?
And it just takes a special mom to want to know
and to want to understand.
Cause she just-- she was lost.
She was.
But you know what she did?
Was she walked a mile in our shoes.
That's right.
So she could understand what Adam's going through.
Question, what did we think of Miss Tiffany Blue Bang?
The one, the only, the gorgeous, professor Tiffany Blue Bangs.
[APPLAUSE]
[GASP] Oh my god.
Oh my god!
She was flawless.
Gorgeous.
Wearing my dress, oh, she looked so stunning.
In that perfidia hair, looking like Marilyn Monroe, honey.
JUJUBE: She gave me a young Betty White.
The way she spoke, the way she handled herself,
it was like old Hollywood personified.
And we did that.
There's something about drag and the transformation,
when you do the makeover.
Like, when she came out fully dressed and she saw herself,
she almost passed out.
[LAUGHS]
But it was also the girdle.
[LAUGHTER]
I want to go back to Lucky Cheng's
when you guys saw the walk.
Yes.
Oh, she was lovely.
And she walked.
And infiltrated that drag show, honey.
And then left.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
BEBE ZAHARA BENET: She had her moment.
Didn't she have her moment?
Oh, she did.
And I think she also like fell out
a little bit when she saw her son walk for the first time.
She'd never seen him walk or do anything on a stage.
- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
She walked.
[LAUGHTER]
She walked.
She walked, honey.
Good for him.
I was nervous.
I was like, can the child walk?
And as son as he went, I was like, he can walk.
That was pretty fun.
But also, Adam is so lucky, not just that he had us.
But then he has a mom like Laura, a mom who really like
wanted to show up for him and broadened
her mind and her horizons.
Didn't your mom talk to them?
I'm glad I got to introduce her to my mom.
What helped you get through coming to terms with it?
There was his coming out.
And then there was my coming out.
And it was really quite slow.
How long did that whole coming out process take?
- A long time. - It did?
A long time.
But it doesn't have to take you as long.
A lot of it will depend on you and you
getting comfortable with it.
You're definitely coming at.
ALEXIS MICHELLE: When we were talking to her,
I was like, I see her at the beginning of this journey,
that my mom has had several years to be on.
And I thought maybe my mom can share some of that.
I came out of the closet.
And that was like, yeah, we know, sis.
You know?
It was like sort of a non-issue.
But then when I had to sort of come out again and say,
remember how I used to like to play dress up?
That's still a thing.
And there was-- it took time.
I identified a lot with Laura's mom with my mom
as well.
What was it like coming out 1912, BeBe?
[LAUGHTER]
That looks delicious.
What are you guys drinking?
This old thing?
Strawberry lemonade.
[LAUGHTER]
That's right.
It was funny.
I'd also like to talk about this.
Do you remember that one marathon day where we like
went to Alexis's house.
We were in that car all day long.
ALEXIS MICHELLE: Oh my gosh.
We were driving from location to location.
That was a long day.
And we were like exhausted.
So tired.
But this one, when she's tired, she is like, girl.
I'm like scared of her.
I mean, I don't think I do that though.
[LAUGHTER]
I-- what?
Do I-- I don't do that.
I didn't say [BLEEP].
And she turns into a crazy person.
I don't even know what you're talking about, because--
Don't even deny it, girl.
You look crazy.
I have proof.
BeBe.
Let's see it.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
You know what?
Now Miss Laura is feeling her zhuzh.
I think she is one step closer--
to what?
[BEEP]
Oh my gosh.
Now that Miss Laura is feeling her zhuzh, I will tell you,
she is one step closer to--
[BEEP]
Oh my gosh, now that you Miss Laura is feeling her zhuzh,
I think she is one step ready to--
[LAUGHTER]
[BEEP]
Oh my god.
Oh my gosh.
You know?
Not that Miss Laura is feeling her zhuzh,
I think she is one step closer to being ready for Adam.
[LAUGHTER]
Love you.
It was five words, five words.
You're like, what?
You know what though?
Girl, been there.
I've been there.
BeBe, what was Adam originally going to wear for the show?
Oh my gosh, when she came out there
and she showed me that phone.
She was giving me very drab, honey.
Drab.
It was drab. It was drab.
My drab.
It was very that.
I say no.
But you know what?
That glam that we picked up for him, he looks really good.
He looked great.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
THORGY THOR: The jacket. [GASP]
ALEXIS MICHELLE: That jacket.
THORGY THOR: I remember that jacket.
ALEXIS MICHELLE: Wasn't that jacket gorgeous?
THORGY THOR: All of us were like, give me that--
BEBE ZAHARA BENET: I wanted that.
--[BLEEP] jacket now!
[LAUGHTER]
But isn't it so funny when you're always--
like your first time in drag, you
feel like you are the [BLEEP].
THORGY THOR: The only one.
Like the only one.
I was like, I look so good.
And then I woke up on this subway at 7 o'clock
in the morning at Canarsie.
[LAUGHTER]
You know what shocks me is--
Like, oh, [BLEEP].
--I used to probably spend three plus hours doing my face.
Wow.
And you would look at these photos now.
And you're like, where?
What did you do for three hours?
Where's the makeup?
Where is the makeup?
But here's the tea.
We had to look like [BLEEP] to get to where we are.
And here's Adam with four drag mothers getting him in drag.
THORGY THOR: And that's what the expertise is.
We're bringing him 20 years of experience.
BEBE ZAHARA BENET: Mm-hm.
Well, and if you add BeBe, it's 90 years of experience.
THORGY THOR: 90 years.
[LAUGHTER]
Can we talk about Laura?
When she came to that drag show.
Oh.
Oh my god.
It looks like me.
And it doesn't look like me.
I love it.
I feel younger, actually and prettier.
You look beautiful.
I kind of don't recognize myself.
She looked adorable.
She had a little sequined dress on.
She had that good blow out, the nice makeup.
She looked good.
What you did for her was you made
her confident by doing that.
You're so talented.
You know what, sis?
I think what Laura really learned
was, in order to be there for her son,
she had to be there for herself.
- Yeah. - Amen.
And I think that there is some--
you have to love yourself.
You know, because that love would be able to be transferred
and gifted to other people.
That's right.
And that was something so stunning to witness.
Yeah.
I just want to make a toast to all mothers out there.
Yes.
Very incredible, yes.
To all mothers, for all the love
they give to us, for all the support.
And to all mothers who have doubt,
always seek for that inner love.
BeBe.
What is to moms.
Yes, to mom.
And to Laura.
THORGY THOR: Oh, yes!
We love you.