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Drag Race Queen Discord Addams Slams Law Roach For 'Nasty' Judging Style: 'I'm Not A Fan Of His Morals Or His Ethics'

The latest eliminated queen from "RuPaul's Drag Race" isn't sashaying away quietly. 


via: EW


Cut the Discord Cam — deadass — as RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 queen Discord Addams officially (and sadly) runway-walked right out of Mama RuPaul's competition on Friday night.


After unfounded pre-season rumors indicated that she was disqualified from the competition, the Florida-based, punk-rocking queen managed to make it nearly to the end of Drag Race's ongoing season. And while she might not have won any main challenges, she certainly left a mark on the show's fandom thanks to her signature, heavily meme'd runway walk, edgy approach to the art form, and never quite cracking under pressure despite being declared "safe" week after week on the Main Stage.


Below, in her Entertainment Weekly elimination interview, Discord reacts to some of her wildest moments from the show, including judge Law Roach's harsh critiques for her drag family resemblance makeover, Juicy Love Dion alleging that she cheated by using safety pins for a prior runway outfit, and how she honed the runway walk that became the running gag (non-derogatory) of the season.


RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 continues Fridays at 8 p.m. on MTV. Read on for EW's full exit interview with Discord.


ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Law Roach had some harsh critiques for your drag family resemblance makeover look. He said he hated it more than he hates his father. How did you feel in the moment?


DISCORD ADDAMS: I felt like I don’t take people seriously who dress billionaires for their day job. What Law Roach thinks about me and my sisters meant nothing to me. Even in the past episodes when he gave me positive critiques, I didn’t care because he’s so nasty to my sisters otherwise. I think he speaks in rage bait, clickbait words for views and attention. To me, none of it comes across as genuine, helpful, or positive critique. None of it mattered. This isn’t Law Roach’s Drag Race. You can say nasty things all you want, but those aren’t helping any of us grow. They’re just nasty for the sake of nasty.


Did you see Law’s Oscars red carpet look this past weekend? Do you have any critiques for him?

Your job is to call other fashion designers and dress people, and you can’t even dress yourself. I’m on a TV show making my own outfits. You’re dressing people. Couldn’t be me! And, you’re dressing [Lauren Sanchez]. He couldn’t be further removed from what my brand is or what I take seriously.


Last week, the fandom also buzzed over Juicy telling the judges you cheated by using the safety pins on your outfit. Did you knowingly break the rules and just hope no one noticed?


If I cheated, I think I would’ve been lip-syncing and sent home that night. RuPaul told me it was a grand slam and the safety pins were on the table of items I was allowed to use, I’d say I absolutely didn’t cheat. I didn’t sew that outfit, it was hemmed and held together with the safety pins…. I don’t think I cheated, and I don’t think RuPaul thought I cheated, either.


Jane Don’t said at Roscoe's that you tried to wear a red catsuit under your dress and that you had to cut it off so that it was only thigh-highs and gloves. What’s the tea?


That was me not understanding the rules, because they told us specifically that you can wear your own tights, you can wear your own undergarments. I had this red bodysuit because I thought it fell under the realm of tights, but production came down and said, “No, you can’t wear that.” I was like, okay, that’s fine, just cut it off me and I’ll wear them as tights. In that moment, they could’ve equally said, you can’t have these tights and also can’t have the safety pins. But, guess what? They never brought up the safety pins!




I don’t think anyone could say you did a bad job this season. Does it feel liberating now to be on the other side of the season to show people how much you accomplished, despite those rumors ahead of the season that said you were disqualified?


It’s a 180 turn. I was worried and hurt. I’d auditioned for a decade, and to finally get the chance to do it and do it as well as I knew I was always capable of, and to come home and have all that happen? The entire internet was against me. Now, 12 weeks in, I’ve become a fan favorite and I’m the internet’s baby girl. It’s so nice. Having talked to the therapist we have there and members of production, they said, just be yourself and the world is going to see that and who you are.                                               


The thing that stuck out to me, the Discord runway walk! Did you purposely not try to fix it during the season, despite some judges telling you to? 


There are moments I thought I was fixing it [Laughs]. I walked out on stage like, they’re still laughing at me. It’s the same walk! As soon as the pleasers were on my foot, the one shoe I know I can wear because me and Stefani Angelina Germanotta are the same person, the walk was significantly better. I got the thumbs-up as soon as the pleasers were on. RuPaul didn’t want me to change it, even in some unseen footage she was like, “Do not change this, people are going to walk up to you doing this. This is you, you can’t stop.” And she was right, because it happened nearly immediately.



Last week, everyone said you should go home on the runway, after you’d been declared safe many times, but it didn’t seem to crack you. What kept you from cracking, and do you consider yourself to have been robbed on any challenges?


I was fully robbed on Snatch Game. We all saw it, we all know it’s true! I was lightweight robbed on the first episode. I stand by my outfit being better than Nini’s. I didn’t crack because I’m confident in myself and what I gave to the judges. Looking back on it, I know I wasn’t delusional, I was doing as well as I thought I did. Sometimes, somebody does a little bit better.


We spoke about alleged Shea Coulée drama in our first interview, before the season. Have you spoken to Shea or her drag family since the show started?


Shea and I follow each other. It’s never been an issue. Like I said in our first interview, there’s not an issue between her and I, and there never has been. She likes my posts all the time. I think her and I are cool. As far as talking to the girls in Chicago, I have my friends there, I was at Roscoe’s, the bar was chanting my name. Everyone is going to have drag queens that don’t like them, but I wouldn’t say there’s actual, real drama.


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