‘Drag Race’ stars drop bombshells over ‘All Stars 10’ drama in fiery exit interview

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+.