Aja calls Drag Race All Stars 10 Premiere Drama 'Light Work' Compared to Next Episodes, Reveals Life-Changing RuPaul Advice

RuPaul's Drag Race firecracker Aja recently ruvealed that we haven't seen nothing yet regarding the drama coming from future episodes of All Stars 10.

via: EW

RuPaul's Drag Race queen Aja is back for All Stars 10 in more ways than one, with Friday's premiere proving that she's not only perfect, beautiful, and looks like Linda Evangelista, but she's also hitting the Main Stage with her competitive fire fully reignited.

In a post-show interview with Entertainment Weekly, the New York City queen discusses her reaction to returning after a tumultuous period of personal evolution amid three seasons of competition, which also included a pair of Pokémon-inspired runway looks and a dazzling lip-sync against season 15's Irene the Alien

Aja also dishes on her post-All Stars 3 transformation, that episode 1 Werk Room clash between herself and Irene, and what exactly she meant when she referred to AS10 sister Lydia Butthole Kollins as “Lydia Backdoor Kollins” and “Lydia Backyardigans De La Cruz.”

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 continues Fridays on Paramount+. Read on for EW's full interview with Aja after her first challenge win.

On if the fight between her and Irene was real or dramatized?

"The world may never know. Bosco was clearly confused as well. I think we were just joking around. One thing I love is a real drag queen, someone you know has been in a lot of dressing rooms, talks a lot of s---, and doesn’t hold back or filter themselves. I had so much fun bantering with Irene. It made me like her, like, you look like a lesbian out of drag and have a nasty mouth. We should be besties!"

On if she thinks the fandom is too sensitive with their reactions to clashes?

If the fandom is too sensitive, they might want to be careful how they tread the rest of the season. That was light work compared to some stuff that happens later. We shall see!

On how she lost gigs because she stopped referring to herself as a "drag artist"

I made the decision to stop referring to myself as a drag artist because I had a hard time navigating my gender identity. I needed to see what was a performance and what was really me…. In that process [of discovering I was trans], people spread rumors. People said that Aja hates Drag Race and Aja quit drag to become a rapper. None of that was right. That news spread like wildfire. Next thing, nobody wanted to book me. Everybody had the idea that I was a difficult, bitchy monster. I lost a lot of people in my life. Work dwindled, and I came to a point where I was unable to take care of myself financially. I went days without eating, I couldn’t pay rent, I was almost homeless. It was bad. In the middle of that, All Stars 6 happened, and Kylie Sonique Love won. Something clicked. I could be a trans woman and do drag. That could be me.

News of me starting drag again didn’t spread like wildfire. It spread like cold butter. When I got called to be a lip-sync assassin on All Stars 8, I said yes. I’d said no to being an assassin for other seasons, but there was something RuPaul said to me while I was there. It was so genuine: “No matter what you do, whether you do drag or not, this is your home, and this is where you should be. When the time is right, you’ll be here.” That touched me. I needed to hear it in that moment, and it helped set the tone for what I wanted to do.

On fans with no fashion sense trying to read her drag aesthetic

The fans get so carried away, saying stuff. I stumbled across a thread, they were talking about my looks, saying I had no fashion sense, and my looks are bad this season. I go on their page and they’re literally wearing polyester. Everything I brought to All Stars 10 was a direct fashion reference off the runway. I wasn’t playing with anything. I don’t care who likes it or not, it’s about me knowing I came effected, and whether that affected you in a good or bad way is none of my concern. I’m going to let you know: If you’re a tacky bitch and have no fashion sense, that has nothing to do with my fashion sense.

Her thoughts on Anetra after reading her for her "noguing" skills during Drag Race season 15

It’s true. My problem was the fan reaction. The iconic Leiomy Maldonado had mentioned the duck walk. It wasn’t really in my taste, but what upset me is that the fans attacked Leiomy, one of my sisters. I was defending her, and in turn I kind of started snatching up Anetra by accident. She caught a few strays. I acknowledge that the way I went about it was a little ghetto. I spoke to her, I apologized, and she was very gracious. She told me it was okay and understood where I was coming from. That made me feel good, but I felt like an a--hole afterward.