No, legendary icon Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta, Ga., didn’t know who Chappell Roan was when the pop star entered the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 Werk Room — but that’s far from the biggest bombshell that bracket 2’s eliminated queens are serving up H-O-T-T-O-G-O in their fiery exit interview with Entertainment Weekly.

After falling behind in the points-based competition following ace plots mounted by Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Jorgeous, and Lydia Butthole Kollins, queens Kerri Colby, Tina Burner, and Nicole were ousted at the end of the bracket’s run. But, they’re not going quietly, as the trio spice things up with several bombshells in their EW exit interview, including what really happened when Nicole saw the “Pink Pony Club” singer, how Tina grappled with Lydia’s approach to points delegation, and Kerri’s wild reveal of which iconic RuGirl has a current cast member blocked on social media.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 continues Fridays on Paramount+. Read on for EW’s full exit interview with Kerri, Tina, and Nicole.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Nicole, fans speculated that you had no idea who Chappell Roan was on last week’s episode. Can you confirm?

NICOLE PAIGE BROOKS: I can confirm I’d heard of Chappell Roan. Could I have picked her out of a lineup? No.

KERRI COLBY: Don’t lie. Nicole, how dare you. Just tell him you had no idea who she was!

NICOLE: Okay, I didn’t really know who she was. I have a radio, so I’d heard the song, but I didn’t know who that was. I know who she is now. Now that she’s in the House of Colby, she’s on my radar.

Tina, you seemed upset by Lydia’s perceived betrayal, but she never explicitly said she’d team up with you. Did she, and it wasn’t shown? Why did you feel she’d have your back, despite entering the House of Brooks?

TINA BURNER: Once absorbed, all things were off. I didn’t see it coming.

NICOLE: Let’s call it the MIB household, not the Brooks household.

TINA: There were certain things that happened, Mistress trying to have me do what she and Jorgeous did. I didn’t want a part in it, Lydia entertained it. I have a letter written by Lydia, as we left, saying that Tina didn’t start the drama!

KERRI: Post the receipts!

TINA: There was an agreement that we were there to give the right person the point. She jumped in with Mistress and Jorgeous. I didn’t expect it or think that Lydia could be manipulated.

So, the flirtation didn’t go anywhere? Did you hear from Kori King at all?

TINA: I’m laughing uncomfortably because I’m doing a gig with Kori this Sunday, so I don’t know what’s going to go down.

KERRI: She’ll have a firm handshake for you, from one masculine gentleman to another!

I loved the AS10 rap roast. Megami said she wrote Jorgeous’ verse. Did others have help?

KERRI: People accused me of having others write mine, but I wrote all those mistakes on my own.

NICOLE: There’s a trans group called the Girls, that my baby girl Alyssa Brooks and Domino Presley are part of. They helped me and sang it to me because I needed the beats to practice.

TINA: I sat in a room with Chelsea Piers and Izzy Uncut and bounced some stuff. Most of it, I changed there.

Given Mistress and Jorgeous’ points plot, was there permanent damage done to friendships in this bracket? Has anyone blocked anyone?

KERRI: Well, Sasha Colby blocked Mistress, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Sasha blocked Mistress?

KERRI: At least she was. Let me check if it’s still active. [In a separate interview, Mistress tells EW:”If [Kerri] wants to put that out there, we can get into it. When this happened, Kerri went home and told Sasha a bunch of lies, and Sasha got upset with me. Apparently, Kerri felt like she was the most robbed queen in Drag Race history. Which, if that’s the case, how did you do three challenges and not win one? It’s a prime example of people taking things too seriously. What happened on TV, Kerri brought that drama into the real world, and that’s why I’ll never f— with her…. But, yeah, [Sasha and I] have each other blocked.”]

NICOLE: I didn’t know who Mistress was before meeting her, so there was no previous relationship to be damaged.

TINA: I don’t hold grudges. I realize who people are, after the fact.

NICOLE: I helped her make good television. I’m happy and proud of her. Even if it’s for TV, don’t trust people who do that just for TV.

Do you think it’s worth making good TV at the expense of real emotions?

KERRI: If the goal is to make good TV, you can always figure out a way to do that. To be messy and tilt the whole table with all the food on it and throw it to ruin everyone’s meal, it’ll be good TV, but you have to think about longevity. She’ll be a wonderful shoo-in for House of Villains one day. Maybe that’s her goal. I think she has life lessons to learn, and I’m hoping Drag Race becomes the school for Mistress and teaches her a lesson moving forward.

TINA: It’s one thing to make good TV. I’m all for that. But, when it starts getting personal and things affect people on a personal level, you have to ask, is it worth it? Who are you doing it for? Who hurt you, Mistress?

KERRI: Like sending someone to go comfort someone else because they’re crying, and using that as an opportunity to scheme about points and mess them up more so they don’t have a chance to recover. There are lines of villain-ry. You can pull a stunt and call someone ugly in a roast. You can be shady and dark-sided, but there’s a certain level that, when you start to get personal and use emotional moments to manipulate things, plant seeds, and start narratives, that’s when it starts giving Hannibal Lecter, Jeffrey Dahmer; it’s giving Alcatraz, honey.

NICOLE: What drew me to the show is that the Werk Room shows an accurate dressing room. There’s going to be a queen in there trying to get the show director job, who will lie and scheme. She’ll stab you in the back the second you turn around. On Drag Race, we have cameras everywhere, so we see it played back when we get home. It’s an accurate view of life. Your coworkers don’t have your best intentions at heart; they want to be in charge.

KERRI: Some of us were very broken; we got fully attacked. But, at the same time, instead of a pity party, we showed that you can call your motherf—ing power back to you, and you can handle some business.

Nicole and Tina, at the end, you represented that by immediately saying you wanted to give points to Kerri to block Mistress. Why was that the move, instead of going quietly?

NICOLE: I believe it was Tina who put that into my mind, like, we’ve got to get our girl up to the top because she was most likely to succeed out of our group. I was more concerned walking around there like, hey, my one point! Yes, it was to block Mistress, but it was more to support Kerri.

Kerri, Mistress called you a fake bitch when giving her final point to Lydia. We only saw you say that she wasn’t out of the running for a point. Did you ever explicitly promise you’d give her one?

KERRI: Absolutely not. I realized that bitch was going to play all the games with me. As soon as she turned her back on my alliance, I was like, I’m going to fake this one. I told her I’d potentially help her out if she threw me a bone because she had a debt to pay. I didn’t have a debt to pay for her to be crazy, shady, and wrong. She kept saying she’d get me back. From the first offense, it registered, this person isn’t trustworthy. There’s nothing they can do to redeem themselves, so I’ll pull a stunt back. People always ask why I didn’t push back on the first episode, but I had to process. There was trauma. I felt like I was back in middle school, getting bullied by friends that pulled stunts on me and humiliated me at prom just to be funny. I had to process that, and when I did, I was like, let’s see how everything shapes out. If I can be part of what makes or breaks you, consider me a motherf—ing hammer of truth and justice, honey.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 airs Fridays on Paramount+.

Mistress Isabelle Brooks is the self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 drama — and she delivered a knockout blow to the competition on Friday’s episode.

Now, in the aftermath of her deliciously devious point-scheming plots and Werk Room rompery (backed by Jorgeous and Lydia Butthole Kollins) with bracket 2’s eliminated contestants Kerri Colby, Tina Burner, and Nicole Paige Brooks, Mistress tells Entertainment Weekly where her relationships with the cast stand today and why she wishes more people would embrace the TV shenanigans.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 continues Fridays on Paramount+. Read on for Mistress’ full Q&A with EW.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congrats on giving us chaos and strengthening the congenial era. You were also in your mother era on All Stars 10 after adopting Lydia. Is the adoption real?

MISTRESS ISABELLE BROOKS: It’s Lydia Butthole Brooks-Kollins. She’s keeping the B in the middle. That’s daughter, and she doesn’t need much help. She comes to me for emotional support, but it’s real.

What’s the update on daughters Sugar and Spice?

Once in the family, always in the family. We’ve done a lot of gigs together and have some coming up. People forget we’re the same age. We butt heads, and outside of Drag Race, we don’t have that much in common. It’s hard because we don’t live in the same area. We talk here and there, reply to each other’s stories, but we’re not as close as I am to my other daughters, but I always have love for them.

Your and Tina’s relationship also changed this season, including after you lied about her scheming to sabotage Kerri and Nicole’s points. Did you identify Tina early on as someone you wanted to pick at through the season?

It’s not about picking someone I want to poke; it’s a game! I went into everything with no strategy. I’m just literally mentally ill. In any competition, the Davenports, the Brooks, my bloodlines know, the game starts before anyone hits the stage. The worst thing someone can do is think they have it figured out. When you go up to someone and the first thing you say is you’re unbothered, that means you’re bothered and looking out for them. Tina handed me the bullseye target, and put it directly on her big, wide back. I had no choice but to interact.

Jorgeous reminded everyone that RuPaul presented a game, and wanted you to play. Why are queens so afraid of that?

Look at me! I made iconic TV, and I’m getting death threats and hate comments and people saying I’m a bully. You’re going to get backlash. People are always going to not like you for multiple reasons…. The normal Drag Race girl doesn’t want to deal with that. I wish more people would publicly celebrate the shenanigans, because that’s what drag is all about. The sooner people stop crucifying the girls for making good TV, that’s when we’ll get more iconic moments like this. I don’t give a f— about “ruining” people’s lives and acting a fool on TV, because to me it’s just TV. Regardless, I’m always going to be Mistress. It’s always going to be Mistress Monday.

In Kerri’s exit interview, she said she wanted All Stars 10 to be a “life lesson” for you. If relationships were damaged in pursuit of good TV, how do you feel about that?

That’s sweet. I learned a valuable life lesson: If you follow your gut instinct and make good TV, more opportunities will always come and your bank account will double. For any bitch to take this serious, you must not know what you’re signing up for. I think a lot of girls depend on this to make them relevant again and bring back bookings, and I’m not in that position. Drag Race is a game show, a competition reality show. That’s like if we went on Family Feud and I’m f—ing crying because I lost. That sounds stupid as f—. We’re all here to play a game. Are we grateful for the things that come from Drag Race? Of course. It changed my life. But, am I going to sit here and cry? No. I don’t regret anything. I’m not going to let someone tell me I need a life lesson. It’s not that serious. I didn’t slap you across the face or say, “F— your entire lineage.” I kind of did to Nicole. A lot of girls are amplifying it, but it’s just a game.

You called the season Nicole Paige Brooks vs. the World. After the initial moment of gagging her by not giving her your point, she looked upset. How angry was she in the room?

Before that moment, I wasn’t saying a f—ing word in the Werk Room. People misread my actions. When I’m mad, the best course of action is to not speak to me, because I’m a hot head. I was mad and trying to get my thoughts in order, so I wasn’t saying anything. That’s why Kerri and Nicole were going on and on about exchanging points. So, when I finally took the point, everyone on set’s mouth was on the floor. Rewatch the clip. Lydia and Nicole look at the producers like, Did that just happen? That’s why Jorgeous and I were laughing, because it worked. It was so stupid and ridiculous. Nicole was hot, but I don’t blame her. My mind truly amazes me.

How did you feel about Tina and Nicole scheming to block you from the top by giving Kerri points?

I didn’t hear that [on set]! I was gagged at how the points were distributed. Of course I want to win the crown, but we’ve heard time and time again, losing is the new winning. I would’ve loved if they ganged up on me and I didn’t make it. Bitch, that would’ve been a kiki. I don’t understand why people were mad at me for the points. I didn’t steal Kerri’s point; Jorgeous stole Kerri’s point. I took Nicole’s point. People misguide their anger and feelings toward me. I’m here for the s—s and giggles. If they pulled that off and got Kerri together, I would’ve lived. Face-cracked.

You called Kerri a fake bitch for giving her point away. What’s your relationship like now?

Kerri and I are frenemies. I love her. I have no issues. Maybe I have borderline personality disorder. I can leave it in TV land…. This doesn’t matter for me. I do so much content and run businesses. This is a drop in the pond. This is one of the projects I’m doing. That’s where the disconnect is. Some people’s lives solely revolve around this, and I’m blessed that’s not the case for me. I’m good with Kerri and I know what happened is just in make-believe land. She’s very emotional, and watching the episodes, I think she’s getting upset all over again. I’m hoping after this ends, she realizes how loved she is. I meant what I said about being her Texas sister. If I was in the bottom last week, I would’ve given her my point — also because I would’ve loved her to make it through with Jorgeous and I, because I know Kerri would flop at the end.

That makes me feel bad that I now have to ask: Kerri said in her exit interview that Sasha Colby blocked you. Is that true?

I don’t look for certain people’s social media stuff. I have a social media manager.

I had to clarify after Willam said on X that you were removed from the season 15 group chat.

If [Kerri] wants to put that out there, we can get into it. When this happened, Kerri went home and told Sasha a bunch of lies, and Sasha got upset with me. Apparently, Kerri felt like she was the most robbed queen in Drag Race history. Which, if that’s the case, how did you do three challenges and not win one? It’s a prime example of people taking things too seriously. What happened on TV, Kerri brought that drama into the real world, and that’s why I’ll never f— with her…. But, yeah, [Sasha and I] have each other blocked.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 airs Fridays on Paramount+.

Booted Love Island contestant Yulissa Escobar has apologized for using the N-word in resurfaced podcasts that led to her departure from the Peacock dating show.

“First, I want to apologize for using a word I had no right in using. Podcast clips from years ago have recently resurfaced, and I want to address it directly,” Escobar posted on Instagram Friday. “In those clips, I used a word I never should’ve used, a racial slur. I used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it. I wasn’t trying to be offensive or harmful, but I recognize now that intention doesn’t excuse impact. And the impact of that word is real. It’s tied to generations of trauma, and it is not mine to use.”

She noted, “At the time, I was speaking casually in conversation, not thinking deeply or critically about what I was saying. But that doesn’t take away from how wrong it was. The truth is, I didn’t know better then, but I do now. I’ve taken the time to reflect, to learn, and to grow from that moment.”

Escobar, who was described as a 27-year-old mobile bar owner from Miami, said she’s no longer the same person who did that.

“I’ve changed a lot since then, not just in how I speak, but in how I show up, how I carry myself, and how I honor the experiences of others.” Escobar vowed. “Growth means recognizing when you were wrong, even if it’s uncomfortable, and choosing to move forward with humility and accountability.”

After warning against “fake statements circulating,” she ended her message adamantly.

“To those who are disappointed or offended, I understand and I apologize,” Escobar said. “I am sorry.”

The apology was accompanied with an image of the words “owning my mistakes speaking my truth.”

Escobar’s apology came two days after she was absent from the second episode of season 7, which debuted Wednesday. It began with a message that “Yulissa has left the villa,” and a representative for the show had confirmed her departure to EW. But no reason was given.

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The cast change followed TMZ‘s Tuesday publication of footage from Escobar’s relevant podcast appearances.

Fans of the show had already commented on her cast portrait on social media that they planned to eliminate her early because of what she’d said.