ARuPaul’s Drag Racewinner crown forAngeria Paris VanMicheals?
A spot in theDrag RaceHall of Fame?
A whopping$200,000 prize for the charityof her choice?
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9’ winner Angeria Paris VanMicheals.World of Wonder Productions, Inc./Paramount+
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congratulations and what a happy birthday for you!
What are you feeling right now?
ANGERIA PARIS VANMICHEALS:I cant even believe what I just heard.
Angeria Paris VanMicheals for ‘Entertainment Weekly’.EW
I always knew I wanted to go back onAll Stars.
Fast forward, I just won, and Im gagging!
This journey, it started all the way from Sparta, Ga.
I grew up in a town where I was one of four gay people, openly.
Getting onDrag Racewas already a big thing, and now winning is crazy.
This is something that I dont think me or my family couldve seen coming.
This money is going to aid in that awareness and help continue to fight this fight.
There are still Black people, queer or not, being violently killed.
These crimes that are happening, we need people to be on the frontlines, fighting.
Speaking of tangible change, Kamala Harris appeared on the finale in an election year.
What significance does that hold, seeing a sitting vice president in the Werk Room?I was gobsmacked.
It represents the direction that our world is going in.
We need to see representation like that, and [we need] allies like the vice president.
It means were moving in the right direction.
Can you elaborate on that?I love Disney, and thats always been one of my favorites.
Growing up in the South, I feel like every little gay boy wanted to be a Disney princess.
Every little queer kid that grows up with that Disney princess in their head.
Thats what I felt like on the runway.
I felt like the prettiest little princess that there was, in my big ball gown.
There were no alliances, as far as I know.
We all played for ourselves.
There were bonds and friendships, as we like to call them, cliques.
It was clique-y in the end, but I dont think there were alliances.
People said that you were delusional, but you were killing the competition, at the same time.
[Laughs]
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You and Roxxxy had an interesting dynamic, consistently blocking each other each week.
I knew coming into the competition that I wanted to win.
There are no stakes yet or wins, and you have to block someone.
Youre probably going to block whoever has the resume and whos going to be a threat.
We all knew that it was Roxxxy.
Comparatively, I come from pageantry, and Roxxxy is someone I looked up to.
Shes the one I felt most in competition with.
Why did you end up voting forVanjiefor the Double Diamond award?The whole season weve been mathing.
Its still the best strategy to vote for the people who all had two badges.
I most certainly wasnt going to vote for anyone else who had so many badges.
You performed so well in every challenge this season.
My favorite wasMeeting in the Ladies Room.
I remember pacing outside the door waiting to go on set with her.
It was just us and her, just me and her.
It felt great, everybody was asking me if the stumble was real or not.
The first reaction to her slapping me was real, the stumble that came after was not.
I definitely almost completely busted my ass and fell on the floor.
Im so glad they left that in there, because it was so unintentional.
Sometimes the unintentional moments are the best moments.
Well relive some of our best moments and runways throughout the season.
I want to do more TV.
I want to be on shows, sitcoms, reality TV, I want to be in movies.
Im a big drama, horror, thriller jot down of person.
Id also love to be in comedies, because we know shes a funny girl.
I foresee a lot of acting coming my way.
I want it, and Ill accept it with open arms.
