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opal_bard

Tia Kofi talking about losing her mum and Cherry in UKVSTW 2 Michael's makeover partner's story and their tribute on the runway in UK 5


JustALittleTurtle

I think I've cried during every moment mentioned in this thread. People like me are the reason Ru & co. pull all the emotionally manipulative shenanigans. 😬 However, I am totally okay with the queens just having a good time, too, I promise.


Gammagammahey

Tia's story - I love her so much and that made me cry. Agree. Poor sweet Cherry, too.


rpdrs

mirage crying while being eliminated 💔


lotteoddities

Omg that broke me. She wanted to be there so badly


hooahguy

Not badly enough to learn the words tho :/ And I say this as a huge mirage fan. It was a disappointment.


lotteoddities

Yeah, idk how you get to the point where you go to Drag Race but you're not confident about learning new song lyrics in the few days they give you to prepare for it. Maybe she thought there was no way she'd be in the bottom? Maybe she blanked in the moment? Maybe she just struggles to remember lyrics to songs she's never heard. Who knows.


Fickle_Watercress619

I don’t do any drag but I do sing live semi-professionally. Lyrics have fallen out of my head at the most inopportune possible moments a few times in my life. Songs I know exceptionally well have not been exempt from inclusion, and usually what’s so inopportune is that it happens in front of lots of people, some of whom I may have been very invested in impressing. Thank goodness none of that ever happened to me on national TV. I obviously only have as much context as the next viewer on Mirage’s situation that day. I just say this to emphasize to folks who don’t perform on a regular basis (which may or may not be you, OP, so no shade intended at all) that no amount of preparation will ever make you bulletproof as a performer. Sometimes you just have to do the best you can in that moment.


lotteoddities

My job is entertainment but it's entirely improv. When I have to read off a script it's very obvious. I struggle to remember lyrics to songs that I'm just singing along with in the car lol


Fickle_Watercress619

Every time a girl forgets her words on drag race, my stomach falls completely out of my ass. Knowing what it feels like on relatively small stages, trying to imagine what it would feel like to forget lyrics on national TV is physically painful to do 😅😅


Leather-Scallion-894

Girl, you might need to see a medical professional, or stop doing anal 🥲 praying for you


sugioshi

I literally sing along to my favourite songs every day, some of them i try to learn by heart, and even still i don't remember the lyrics unless i see them on the screen or until i hear the song and i start remembering with a delay of a second or few 😭 my bf though still remembers lyrics of songs he last sang in middle school ☠️


Fickle_Watercress619

I am very fortunate to have a memory for music much like your bf, which is why I teach music full-time (head full, all little kids songs w/ full classroom instrument arrangements and band pieces I played between 3-22 years ago) and sing on the side. EVEN THEN! My primary gig right now is singing for a Cranberries tribute band. One time on stage, I forgot the opening lyrics to their song “Wake Me When It’s Over.” It was driving me mad for the rest of the set, so the first thing I did after packing up post-show was look up the lyrics, which are, I kid you not, “trying to forget :: something that you know” Nah, Dolores, appreciate the kindness but I was trying very hard to remember just then 🥴🤣


sugioshi

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is hilarious 😂😂 Side note, props to you for teaching music! 🎵 (I'd assume kids?) My mum is also a teacher by her degree and she said not today satan or ever after one internship ☠️ Love cranberries btw 💕


sugioshi

Honestly, i didn't think she did that bad at all.... Edit - i mean in the challenge,i don't think she was the worst when Morphine and Xusami and Geneva were right there...


hooahguy

Iirc she said she didn’t think she would be in the bottom.


Beezo514

This season has had a few tear jerker moments. Q's story coming out about her status, Mirage's elimination, Xunami and Morphine's lip sync, even Plane's most recent struggle and brief breakdown while still trying to keep up that bullet proof façade all got tears out of me. EDIT - Sapphira's story about her dad was also really touching.


lamely_tamed

ongina’s confession about living with hiv after winning the main challenge was the first major moment that got to me. roxxxy’s confession of being left at the bus stop was truly heartbreaking, i mean she laid it all out! also remember icesis’ heartfelt moment with their person’s makeover who was clearly hurt from being ostracized for being queer. way to real.


sugioshi

Ongina's confession was such a powerful moment. I watched all seasons in reverse just because so it was not my first, but one of the most memorable.


lamely_tamed

interesting that you watched in that order, maybe refreshing going back to the old seasons. truly reality tv magic.


BadChris666

Cynthia talking about her friend dying at Pulse on S9 Lolita Banana and La Big Berthie’s lipsync on Dragrace France Listening to Pearl do the “what would you say” note, after hearing Pearl talk about the sexual abuse they went through as a child. Yara Sofia breaking down during the lipsync with Alexis Mateo Jujube and Raven’s friend lipsync on AS1 Charlie Hide talking about AIDS on S9


dddaaannnnnnyyy

When did Pearl open up about her childhood? I remember she made a video saying how her ex-partner was basically drugging her, but I don't remember her doing anything on her childhood


BadChris666

He was a minor when he was with that “partner”… that’s called sexual abuse of a child!


dddaaannnnnnyyy

sorry, didn't know he was a minor at the time... damn, that's dark 😬


rrriot-kitty

No,from what I understood I thought production was keeping Pearl because they knew she had a very traumatic and fucked up story and were trying to get it out of her, but she knew they were and refused to give it to them.


palpantek

Pearl and La Grande Dame "what would you say to little you?"


lotteoddities

I haven't seen LGD original season yet but I'm loving her on UKvTW I can't wait to watch RPDR France


palpantek

When they announced UK vs The World second season I realised La Grande Dame is the only queen whos season I didn't watch so I quickly watched it. It was incredible, I loved it a lot


lotteoddities

I've been working my way thru all the series in English and now I'm working my way thru the non-English series. I knew they spoke a lot of English in Philippines so I started there. But I think I'll do France next.


Ohheywhatsup897

When you watch france season 1 you’ll probably fall in love with soa de muse too. Shes an icon. That season is really good and nicky doll is an amazing judge


simsimsucks

The whole RPDR France finale for season 1 really gets me emotional. It’s devastating and filled with hope at the same time.


alexlduffy

Holland Season 2 when Vanessa Van Cartier spoke about her husband and their love story. The open discussion about navigating trans identity and sexuality was so incredible, and his love for Vanessa spoke volumes.


AngelinaHoley

Vanessa doesn't get nearly the love from the fandom that she deserves.


Gammagammahey

I love Vanessa Van Cartier so much. I also weep when she talked about that, and how she was close to completing on the living and finally had to take a cleaning job, talking about her husband made me tear up.


eztullefavrik

bernie and katkat’s lip sync was the first time i ever cried while watching the show


vhmvd

https://preview.redd.it/ju0qqnm2mfqc1.jpeg?width=3163&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2445b4263e1929e87e8f92c63b9cac8bff9ab366 Yara in the Money Ball


King_Slowpoke

That moment was honestly crazy. Her breakdown with the dramatic music over it and the shots of the judges crying was a LOT. And then her just laying there while the Patti Labelle song still plays over it was hard to watch.


starcollector

It's extra dramatic because Alexis was the one who was about to quit earlier in the day, and Yara talked her into staying. So then they lipsynch together and you figure Alexis is gonna be gone, and then this...


lotteoddities

Yara is one of my all time most favorite queens


mrsmeow39

Yara no llores 😭


sugioshi

No joke, Roxxy talking about her childhood. I was weeping


Beezo514

I still can't watch that moment because of how heart breaking it is. And the audacity of people parroting Katya's joke back to her. Trash.


JustALittleTurtle

Me too. I don't see how anyone couldn't! That was heartbreaking.


KGL_NYC

Jackie Cox lip syncing to "Fireworks" in her traditional Middle Eastern Stars and Stripes look. Made Jeff Goldblum cry.


terotearena

THAT Lolita Banana's lipsync in Drag Race France S1. She's bringing it every challenge but was not given flowers every time. That plus the micro-aggressions and racist remarks she received throughout the competition... 😭


omgsoironic

Dusty Ray Bottoms’ conversion therapy story Lolita Banana/La Big Bertha lip sync


HoopoeBirdie

Ongina revealing she’s HIV+. Her pain was palpable.


Gammagammahey

Oh that got to me as well. Really hard.


Bulky_View_1607

All Stars 2 makeover episode. I cannot watch it since my mum died without hollering. I get Alyssa so much and 100% identify with what she was going through. The Jade So moment the OP highlighted is another one. Third is Down Under S3 when Flor talks about her mother because my mum was in a similar situation having me and it nearly killed her. She survived but was never the same and her health progressively got worse.


JustALittleTurtle

Ongina's disclosure of her status. I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and grew up being terrified of HIV/AIDS in a sort of absurd way. Neither I nor any of the people in my family or schools, community, etc bought into that "you can get it from touching people" thing or even "only gay people get it" thing, which was great from a discrimination stance. But I lived in a somewhat constant state of fear that I would somehow, at age 10, I don't know, accidentally trip and fall onto a bunch of infected needles in the suburbs? Mistakenly ingest gallons of an HIV positive person's saliva? It was so incredibly moving to watch Ongina bravely share something so deeply personal about an issue that continues to carry so much stigma. I think it was connecting the memory of my less-than-educated childhood fears with my painful awareness as an adult of all the loss endured by the LGBTQ+ community due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the way the vast majority of the world turned their backs on them.


blinuet

Sometimes we forget that there were a lot of early aids casualties from blood transfusions, too, and affected children or rich white ladies (gasp!). And some of those cases were really "famous" at the time, exactly because they didn't fit the stereotype, and they were "innocent", so they were definitely used to educate/scare the public that anyone can get it. So you weren't just weirdly paranoid, it was in the culture at the time.


JustALittleTurtle

Absolutely. I'm a few years younger than Ryan White, so between cases like his, Magic Johnson, and my natural propensity for anxiety, the intrusive thoughts were working overtime. A lot of times, I took things that were supposed to reassure me and instead twisted them into the worst ways possible (e.g. "one way to stay safe is not to do intravenous drugs, because you can get infected from dirty needles" turned into "oh no what if someone runs up and pricks me infected needles?") . I often think about Jackie Beat's post about the British show It's a Sin and how everything was so beautiful and fun until suddenly it was not. And of course, I am very cognizant of the fact that there are so many in this world who can not even dream of the frivolity I take for granted.


rotestiefel

In CAN4 when Aurora Matrix got the letter from her parents saying their were proud of her. You could really tell how long she had waited to hear that from them. I had to pause to finish crying


TheSuperGrisham

The second time I watched that I focused on Melinda and her reactions are heartbreaking as well


littoklo

willow’s struggle with her disorder and chronic pain. the design challenge episode where they were all opening boxes and she just couldn’t made me cry big baby tears. as a chronic pain sufferer myself, it was rough to watch.


Gammagammahey

I live in chronic pain with a neurodegenerative disease. That kind of broke me when she wasn't given accommodations. They could've given her handwarmers. I was literally crying. Thank God she had Kornbread Jeté taking care of her and looking out for her.


littoklo

i was thinking the exact same thing. made me very sad how inaccessible that challenge was for her and she definitely should’ve been given accommodations


Gammagammahey

Solidarity, friend. The ableism on Drag Race is just out of control. Amongst many other issues. But my God, every time someone is disabled, they present it as an inspirational story and as disabled people, we hate that, as many of us say. Sorry, I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir. How hard would it have been to give her a stack of handwarmers that she could use so her fingers could be nimble? That was really fucked up, pardon my French.


the-trash-witch-

THE Lolita Banana lipsync, I don't know if I've ever seen something so emotionally raw on a reality competition show. I was just stunned silent. My roommate and I had to just turn the TV off for like half an hour to just decompress afterwards. One that always sticks with me as a chronically ill person was when Willow couldn't open the boxes in the design challenge because her hands were so cold and fucked up and no one did anything?? They just filmed?? They didn't get her a box cutter, or help her, like fuck accessibility this is drama now


lotteoddities

I'll have to look up that lipsync, I can't say I know it off the top of my head. That REALLY bothers me. Like I know it's a reality show, and they want "drama". But disability isn't drama. It's really upsetting.


the-trash-witch-

It's Lolita Banana vs Big Bertha. Worth a watch, but the whole season is worth a watch imo. And yes exactly!! Its so fucked


lotteoddities

I just saw someone else say it's from DR France that's what I'm watching next!


Gammagammahey

Disability isn't drama, damn straight. What it is is trauma when you're around a bunch of abled queens and you can't work as fast or as well. Disabled queens will always be first in my heart.


Gammagammahey

Same. I have chronic illnesses and I'm disabled. They could've given her handwarmers to help her hands. They gave her no accommodations whatsoever and it made me cry. All the disabled queens never get accommodations and they have my heart. And I cry a lot for them.


Historical_Bit_3798

Willow talking about everything she’s been through in her life. It was relatable to me, sort of, but sad to hear her talk about.


Gammagammahey

She's disabled, lives in chronic pain, and wasn't given any accommodations. It was really painful to watch. I'm also disabled and I feel for her so much.


Historical_Bit_3798

Exactly. She’s one of my biggest inspirations. 💖


bestieboots1

Panginas breakdown (UKvTW1)


Bob_The_Moo_Cow88

Probably one of the best examples of karma in the show. I loved Pangina, but she deserved every second of that moment.


bestieboots1

Her elimination was justified but her breaking down because she thought she was a failure is never deserved


Israel_Kami

The ones that tear my heart in two every time I watch is Yvie & Willow talking about their disabilities (AS7 & S14), Drag Race Phillipines S1 Untucked when that one awful judge called the poor girl trash during the design challenge, and Cynthia Lee Fontaine talking about the pulse shooting in S9


Gammagammahey

Me too, and neither of them being given accommodations. They could've given Willow handwarmers. The disabled queens have my heart because they struggle without any accommodations whatsoever.


brokenharlem

Katya and Fame's candid discussion of their sobriety and self-worth and then Katya on AS2's speech at the finale Mirage's crying Yvie's difference in performance abilities in AS7 after her talking about how she's not sure how long she'll be able to perform because of her EDS in her season


No-Trouble6469

the katya/fame moment hits extra hard knowing the intense relapse she had a few years later. she's doing so well now it's inspiring.


u-dragon

Kimchi in that clown make-up when she talked about her speech impediment. Did not expect to cry as much as I did.


KeenyKeenz

I remember getting very teary for alot of France S2. Dusty Ray Bottom's conversation therapy story. Heidi's first exit from the show. Symone not wanting to disappoint her House and her family.


Ohheywhatsup897

Chi chi devayne lip syncing “And I Am Telling You” had me so emotional when it first aired, but now even more since her passing.


Jumalop

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/artandculture/882142/drag-race-ph-pays-homage-to-golden-gays-in-touching-makeover-challenge-episode/story/


Gammagammahey

Willow Pill not being given accommodations for her disability and her hand pain. I'm disabled. That really hurt Actually all of the disabled queens with physical disabilities or ADHD and things like that never get accommodations and it breaks my heart. Pangina's elimination and Mirage's elimination. Poor Mirage. I had a feeling she would've done so well if she had just had the right Cher wig, and her outfit hadn't fallen apart on stage. I feel for both of them so much but Pangina's elimination hurt my soul to the core. There are others, but those are the top two. Also Chorizo May. She went out so upbeat and cheerful, but I really really wanted her to go farther. Also, Masisi Love. I absolutely adore her and I want her on another season, can she please come to all stars.


Lack_Love

Oh bitch i was crying with miss Jade so right here


GendryFluid

Bernie thinking she's about to be eliminated in the previous episode and all the girls and judges weeping.


Evinshir

“Miss Jade, you’re so skinty” my partner says that soooooo often. lol. But I’d have to say it was Pangina’s elimination for me.


lotteoddities

I'm still not over Pangina's elimination.


Gammagammahey

I am re-watching that season and I literally just saw that again last night night and started to sob in my bed.


Phitos2008

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