The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - ONE OF EVERYTHING, SHOPKEEP! Ft. Latrice Royale | Episode 165

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

This week Drew is joined by the legendary Latrice Royale!! They talk Latrice’s love for Golden Girls, her engagement story, the stoner lifestyle, how writing hate mail got her cast on Drag Race, smoking out a church choir, and so much more. Shop Billie in-store and at https://www.mybillie.com Latrice IG: https://www.instagram.com/latriceroyale/?hl=en Latrice Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latriceroyaleinc?lang=en Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

50-50 if my zippers up or down anymore. Take my pants off at home. They come off easy. I'm like, I thought was four hours I was walking around. Netflix is a joke presents. Nate Bargatsy, Big Dumb Eyes World Tour, a special live taping at Into a Dome. I think it's because I'm peeing so much longer.

I watch young people come and go. I'm like, tell my family I'm okay. Nate Bargatsy, May 9th and 10. Live at Into A Dome. Get tickets at Netflix at Jokefest.com. time to refresh your yard during spring backyard days at the Home Depot. Get low prices guaranteed on propane grills starting at $179, like the next grill three-burner gas grill. Or get $50 off the select Weber Spirit grill and bring big flavor to your backyard.

Then set the scene with Hampton Bay string lights that bring it all together. Shop spring backyard days for seven days at the Home Depot. Now through May 6th. Exclusion supplies to homedipo.com slash price match for details. You look good, bitch. You look fucking good. You know black don't crack unless you smoke it. Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the comments section show starring me, your favor.

Everybody knows me. Who cares about me? On to the guest. Today we have the iconic, the legendary, the unbelievably talented, Latrice Royal. Woo! Welcome to the show, Queen. Thank you. Oh, my gosh.

I'm so happy to have you. It has. We've been passing ships for a while. Like literally a couple of years. Yeah, and I've had several people, several hundred thousand people comment, you should have Latrice, you should have Latrice. I said, bitch, I'm trying. She's busy and successful and I'm waiting.

And I'm sitting around open and available. Hey, hey, for a coin though. I think you are so fantastic and I'm so happy we finally got to link up. Oh, likewise. I've been, you know, following, watching and, you know, stalking. Obviously, I know everything about you. Would you do? Yeah, of course I do.

And we also have fun facts, but we'll get to those. Okay. Before that. We're going to say. How much you dug up. Yeah. I know. We're entering a real Nard war era where we're trying to really unearth some really fun things.

I like that. So obviously, I'm sure, as most people know, obviously you did very well on drag race. But I would love to know. your lore like how you or other people to know your lore of how you came into drag how you like kind of discovered drag or discovered yourself through drag well that's more like what had happened because i did not want a gino drag like that was not on my radar gator tea none and um it was a dare my friends were daring me they're like because i would be lip stinking now i was always lip stinking yeah give me some i'm every woman and i was that woman right exactly but i never thought i would do

drag but we just go to drag shows and watch the quarrels and and the boogers, and we're just like, girl, you should do drag. I'm like, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but I did it for Halloween. I was Wanda for a while in the color. Okay, too.

Okay. And I thought that was going to be the end of it, but no, they convinced me to do the amateur show. Okay. At the local bar at Copacabana in Fort Lauderdale. And I was horrible. Girl, I got out there, because let me tell you, first of all,

there was no Amazon Prime back then. We talked of 33 years ago. Right. So there was no size 16 pump readily available at my doorstep. I could just order up a hair piece, you know, go on YouTube. There was none of that going on. So we got creative and I went out there. We found some gold liquid lame in a body suit.

So we pinned up the gold liquid lame on one leg and then made a turban. I went out there and did a lyrical dance piece at the drag show. And maybe they said, oh, no, ah. A lyrical dance piece? dance because now I'm a color guy queen. So I used my dancing to distract from my drag. That's work?

Nope. No, damn. They said, not on tonight. And as a fact, here's a fashion citation. Don't ever wear that. They said, you owe me money. For real. We want our free drinks back.

Like, for real. My two drink minimum. It was horrible. But ironically, like, I came back to the next week and won the contest. And that was the beginning of the never-ending story. And so here I am. You said, I found something.

I found something. And like, when you find it, I lean the door, I'm a ham, too. So like, if you're going to scream and yell for me, I'm going to do a little bit more. You know what I mean? This is how I'm going to go down. Oh, you love attention? Yeah, I know all about that. That part.

So here we are. I know I've joked about it because I'm in drag all the time too when I do. You are done. Yeah, I'm dragged out right now. I love it. But I always tell people that I'm like, you have to love attention to some extent to do this. You have to.

And I love it. And here we are. Biggest narcissists in the world. Right. For real. Me, me. Oh, look at me. I'm so stunning.

I'm so stunning. And you are. What was it as are you? What was it that really drew you to it? Like other than the attention, obviously. Well, the performance art of it. Like, to be able to like completely transform and move an audience. and control a room and a vibe.

That's the whole thing, and that's a whole different kind of skill set and level of excellence. And so when I found out that I had something special that I could do that, I really leaned into it and wanted to hone it. Hell yeah. Because, again, it fed the ego.

That definitely didn't hurt. That's why I said, why do you think we do it for no money for so long? For so long. That's why you're going to call it The struggle, honey. Right. Yeah, we will struggle, go hungry, and we had to be crafty. Like, we have to be crafty and create our own drag and looks and things.

I made things out of cardboard, but it looks sickening on stage. But don't get it wet. That's all that matters. Just all that matters. I've had, obviously, I've had so many queens on the show, and a lot of them have said, too, that they think bad drag is a right of passage. It is. It's like an essential piece of your drag journey. If you're not booger your first time out, you're not doing it.

drag for real for real yeah yeah so these lollipop gills that just came out here with the YouTube material that come out polished with their quaffed hair and the perfect makeup and girl you have not struggled you are not doing that that's why I because I've asked like

obviously social media has completely shifted the drag scene especially RuPaul's drag race becoming so popular outside of the community it's geared towards like it kind of and drag queens becoming so popular amongst other audiences that they're not gravitating towards so all of that has kind of shifted the drag scene and so

that's why I've asked my the queens I've had on the show before like if they have any opinions on how social media has kind of shifted drag it really has shifted though I mean like it's just for me I mean it has its positives yeah it's like pros and cons yeah with everything you know and I'm all for evolution and I'm glad that we've evolved and I'm glad that drag has taken the place in space that it is because we need tools and we need need people to make things for us as well. You know what I mean?

And that was the struggle for so long. We just didn't have the visibility. And it wasn't cool. You know what I mean? And now the girls on daytime TV are in drag, girl. We're in drag. Full out, full beat, glittered lips. Girl, I'm like, 301.

I'm like, really? Where are you going? Middle part bus sounds. Like, bust down, where are you going? Yeah. Even the men, like male. I watched, I was watching something. I forget where I was.

I was in a hotel. But it was like a sports commentator show. And they were sitting at that table. And all the men beat down, bitch. Contoured out. Contore painted. Yeah. And contour muddy, but still contour.

Contoured. Nonetheless. It's muddy and bad, but I can see it. Which is why I find it so shocking when people are so judgment or prejudice about drag queens. Because I'm like, you have no idea. There is like, and now it's so like, like you said, it's all cool now. Not to everyone, but to a lot more people.

Yeah, but it's also, it's like, I feel like drag as, as an art form has been the genesis of most, if not all popular makeup techniques, wig techniques, hair techniques, like all of that shit. All the shit that it, y'all have been new. Been done new. Yeah, that's what I was like, you guys weren't there in the air spun powder days. you don't get it. You don't get it. Getting clown lung, you don't get it. Baby.

The girls don't get it. They don't get it. Because y'all got good product now. Yeah. Exactly. No lead in your makeup. You like this. No glass.

Like fiber glasses. There's some powders that were like cut you up. Right. So when you were in the drag scene fully and then you were working away towards drag race, like how did that come into the picture? like wanting to try for drag race. Well, okay, so I was working locally and gigging and just doing the things. And it was constant, consistent, and I wasn't really advancing in my career. I wasn't, you know, like before drag race pageants were the way to, like, get nationally known and things like that.

But I found out that wasn't, I was trying for pageants. too, but that was not really my destiny child either. So, so, um, literally I was, when Drag Race came out,

I was a fan, I was watching from season one. Season two, I was even more into it. Couldn't believe it. I was like, Bruce, like, Rupon's on TV,

blurry as hell, but she, oh, man, logo, honey, she was back in the day, the OG's no. She was not cute. She got budget now.

She got that MTV money. Right, exactly. But season three was what really solidified the fact that I needed to go ahead and audition because I was really rooting for the big girls. They had Delta work, Stacey Lane Matthews. I was rooting for these girls, you know. And Delta was holding her own, baby. Delta was showing me what big girls supposed to look like.

I love it. She put her stuff where it's supposed to go. You know what I mean? I love that. Yeah. And then there was Stacy. girl Stacy over here crying

because she fat nobody told her but she was fat before she got girl I don't know what you said you just found out you just found out

you didn't know girl mistake what is you crying her own this shit don't look at be a hindrance like she was very down

and that drove me nuts so I went to my room and I'm like I'm going to find these people. I looked up the email address I found a

world of wonder at dot net. Yeah. So I just wrote some random at that email to who am I concerned. I am tired of these

fat girls getting on your show crying about being fat. I'm not going to charge. I did. I was talking shit. I'm larger to charge chuggy up bucket

and I can show you better than I can tell you hit my pictures, my phone number, give a bitch a call. I didn't know they were casting, girl.

You just wrote hate mail? I just wrote hate mail. I got cast. I was mad. And they called me two days later. They're talking about, we loved your email. That's so much. Oh.

You forgetting you sent it. Completely. In a rage. In a rage. And didn't think nothing else about it. And they called me talking about, we loved your email. We want you to get your tape in like ASAP. Damn.

They said, get that girl in my office. That part. I was like. She's going to be a star. I wrote them on a Tuesday They wrote them on Tuesday And they wanted my tape in by Monday Shit

Okay I was like girl I got bookings all weekend I have busy I ain't got time for this Yeah And she was like don't worry about making it pretty Just answer the prompts and show us your closet And send it Yeah they just want to see you

Your personality And baby there was one old tape Rupal remembers my tape very very vividly Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It was horrible, girl. All you saw was teeth and eyes because it was dark. But I did my whole tape on a Yahoo webcam, bitch.

Like, I'm telling you, it ain't about all the production value. It's just about you. You don't know the fight-tai-fought. You have no clue. So, yeah, but they love my tape. And then, boop-boop-boop, I got on my first try. And I wasn't even trying.

I was just talking shit. And hey. Who am I to question God's plan? That's what it was. But I was really wanting to like advance and change my life. I needed to do something. It was like written in the stars for you then. I think that's so funny.

That what ended up pushing you was being like, I am pissed the fuck off. Oh, bad girl. I'm still kind of bad at her. If you can't tell. You said I'm reliving the feelings. I'm still like mad at her a little bit. I do remember your very viral meme of saying,

chunky yet funky and you have the blue beanie on. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, in your interview and you say chunky yet funky. I remember it very distinctly. Do people quote yourself to you all the time? Is that your most popular one or do you have another more popular one? There's so many. They want me to get their nuts out of their face. The thing of it is it's funny like back then we weren't produced. I literally

was coming in and talking shit. That's what I do. Whatever comes up, comes out. And I didn't know that I was giving style. bounce and catch phrases. I didn't until it aired and they were catching on and people were quoting it. I was like, hashtag. I'm like, what is a hashtag? I knew nothing. You said you guys are making me feel a thousand years old.

Yeah, like I literally had just, they made me get a Twitter and like I was like, okay. Okay, girl. I'll get a Twitter, geez. Well, how was your experience on Drag Race? Every time I talk to the Queens, they're always like, it felt like American Ninja Warrior, but I have to know how to sew and dance and perform all at the same time. I mean, it depends on which

time you're talking about. Which of the three times you're talking about. I know it changes depending on when you get moneyed up. Yeah. Right. But my initial season I went in very green and very like trying

to do everything that they asked but still wanted to hold onto who I was. Yeah, totally. So, for me coming from a pageant background, I felt very like I was in pageant mode. Yeah. And my whole goal,

the whole time I was there, like, I got to get top five, got to make top five. Yeah. Because that's what pageant. You got to make top five. Yeah, yeah. But it was good because it was pure.

And I found my purpose while I was there. I realized that everything that I went through with my hardships and going to prison and all that was all for, this reason and for this moment so I can share my story. Yeah. And not just for myself healing, but help others in a process. So like when I found out, I was like, oh, it was like that aha moment, this is your time kind of thing.

Yeah. And so it was really, really, really a positive thing for me. Oh, that's so great. I'm glad your initial experience was so positive. It was like transformative for you. The shit name. Not loving your AT&T or T Mobile Bill. Yeah.

hearing that a lot. Good news. Bring your AT&T or T mobile bill to Verizon and we'll give you a better deal. So get away from that unfortunate phone bill and get to Verizon. Run, ride, canoe. Whatever it takes, we'll be here. Bring your AT&T or T mobile bill to a Verizon store today and we'll give you a better deal on the best network on the better deal. No surprises. That's Verizon. Best Network based on Route Metrics, Best Overall Mobile Network, Performing, 2nd half, 2025. All rights reserved. It must provide a recent consumer mobile bill and the name of the person who gave me the deal. Additional terms, conditions, and restrictions apply. the way. Now you're going to have a terrible time.

Here you go. Here we go. Partners. All-Stars partners. Here we go. Yeah. That part. Yeah, Trixies told me that All-Stars is harder because everyone has money and everybody's

stunning and gorgeous and everybody gets their costumes made and their wigs made and all that shit. And you know the production antics. Yeah. Like you all. So when you've seen behind the curtain, you know when they're pulling some bullshit. Right. No, girl, here they go.

You know. Yeah, you said untucked, just unraveled it. Everyone started acting crazy. Acting fool, girl. With all your experiences on all the different versions of drag race that you've done, what would you say was like your favorite part of the experience overall if you had to choose one? Was it like lip singing? Was it the obvious?

Was it the comedy? Oh, like the aspects of the actual challenges? Yeah, of the challenges itself. I love the acting challenges, obviously, and I did not shy away from, like, dance challenges or anything like that because maybe, let's go. Let's five, six, seven, eight, bitches, let's go. It was just, like, for me, like, the connection with working with my sisters.

Like, I gained, like, a really dear friend through All-Stars One with Manila. Yeah. Like we are like, that's my other, other half. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, totally. And so, like, that's a lifelong situation. Yeah.

But I can't even put a price tag on. So, like, the win for me is her. Isn't that crazy? Like, this industry, you, like, don't realize that you meet people that you're like, we were always meant to cross paths. For real. I just didn't think it would be in something like this. Like this.

Like at all. I know some of my, like, best friends now are, like, women that I met doing this, like, doing this as a job and doing this as a job and doing this as a job. career, which I feel like when you're older, you kind of think, like, especially me in TikTok years, I'm 2,000 years old. Like, they think I'm AARP certified on TikTok. See, this is why I don't play on that. This is why.

What are you? 32? Girl. Girl. You were in Fort Lauderdale when you were one, obviously, and that was 33 years ago. I was a baby. Yeah. Girl.

Good thing I shaved her. She would see all this great, but you could see up here. No, you look fantastic. Thank you. This is 53. Tea. You look good, bitch. You look fucking good.

You know black don't crack unless you smoke it. I'm inclined to believe you. Okay. There's that. Yeah, in TikTok years, I'm 2,000 years old. Like, sometimes I'll go to stuff, like events, and then they'll ask me how old I am. Yeah, like, when I go to, like, premieres or, like, fucking little-ass parties. I thought you had TikTok events, I was about to say.

They do have those too. Girl, no. Sometimes, yeah. Okay. And then I go, and then they're like, hello, now, and then right now, I'm going to be 30 this year. So I would say, like, I'm 29, and then they're like, damn. Oh, my God, you're like almost 30.

Oh, my God. Fix that tone. Okay, first of all, bitch, wait a minute, back up. And then, wait a minute, that makes me think about how they're calling Lexi grandma. Grandma, because she's 33. She's the oldest girl on the show She's grandma Can you imagine being a grandma at 33?

No, I cannot. No, I absolutely. I rebuke. You're on your way. I rebuke that. Keep playing with TikTok. In the name of the father. I rebuke.

Keep playing the TikTok. They'll be like, hey, Granny. I know they call me anti sometimes. Yeah, and I said... Already? Yes. They don't take me seriously on that up. Why would they?

Why are you here? now you know they're like oh auntie literally the other i went to a premiere the other day and um some one of it was like one of those outlets posted a video of me just like posing or whatever and then i wrote like i wrote something nice on it i was like oh thanks for this and someone responded auntie you look so pretty delete your fucking comment right now what you're not gonna do i don't know you person made no kidding to me you're not gonna call me out my name right the disrespect I also know you were on, we are here. We're here, yeah.

Yes, and I would love to know how your experience was on that show. That was really, now that was the Lord's work, for real. Like, I got to give it up to Bob, Changela, and Eureka for being the, you know, matriarchs of the show or whatever. But, like, that is real. Yeah. Like, there's nothing like going to a little small town being called. faggots and in words and things like that like and then in a combination of both of us like it's just it's just wild to me that people are that scared yeah of something they know nothing about yeah it's like

they know nothing about like not even close not even close and the shit they say you're like where did you even get that yeah like who said that what the fuck like i've made so many videos like just dogging out men like that, especially when they talk about trans people and they talk about gay people and talk about drag queens, right? The whole like drag queens reading to kids thing, I was like, this is nothing more than transphobia disguised as something else. They're trying to make you believe trans people and drag queens are a monolith. They're not. But it's just fear mongering more than anything, right? And I was like trying to find someone to blame for why you don't give a fuck about kids in this country. But I've said before, I'm like, I actually know and love

drag queens in real life. I know them for real. They fucking hate. your kids. I don't know how else to say that to you. Tell you how I don't want no kids. Yeah, me either. And I don't want them either. And maybe that's why we get along. We're all cunts and tall and don't want children. And self-indulgent. And we love attention. We love

attention. And if you're going to be taking attention away from me, little brat. I can't. I was like, I guarantee you. I was like, they don't want your kids near them. They don't want them at the shows. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, also who's taking kids to a drag brunch?

What a bummer. I'm trying to get fucked up at the brunch. And we got to censor our music because your little bratty-ass kid is here. I was like, we try to do Trino. We try to be the baddest bitch. I'm trying to do a lyrical dance to North Carolina. And this is getting in the way.

I was like, and this is making it harder for me. That's for me to show my art. Yeah, but it really is mind-boggling. And to, like, when I sat down with that, that, I don't know, she worked in, like, with the Senate or whatever, the black lady. And listening to her just bowed off things that she's heard. And then I asked her, have you ever been to a drag show? No.

Have you ever met a drag queen in real life? No. Then I had to gather her. Yeah. Then I had to gather her. Yes, the fuck you did. Because there's people like you, that makes it hard for us. Like you are fearing all this thing that you don't know nothing about.

Exactly. And then we're just trying to be happy. Exactly. Like I know I'm a good person. Right. But what are you doing in your life? No shit. And also the places there are drag shows, those are safe spaces.

Safe spaces. No one's telling you to go over there. If anything, straight people are gentrifying those safe spaces and they have been for a while. For a long time, baby. That's why there is a brunch every day of the week. Exactly. Brunch every day of the week. Right.

And then they're just. randomly becoming drag brunches. I was like, you guys don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I was like, you haven't been to a hamburger marries. I don't want to hear it. That's the starter one. That's the starter one. Yeah, you're not at a Mary's honey.

Exactly. Girl, you don't know. Well, and it's just like it's that kind of ignorance that infuriates me too because I don't need to have the lived experience or even know anyone in real life to empathize with a community that I'm not a part of. I just so happen to know a lot of them and love a lot of them. in real life as well. So it makes me extra fucking mad.

Because I was telling my guests earlier that I recently made a video defending trans women because this woman made a woman's only gym said she would support trans women coming. Then once she got her bag, said, actually, never mind. This is only for cis women. Right. To which I'm like, how are you going to check that, right, first of all? But they don't ever think that far.

So I basically made a video just saying, I wasn't even talking about talking to her directly. I literally just said, if you're a transphobe, your ass stinks. And that's all I have to say to you. You have shit in your crack and I know it. Oh my God. I know it for a fact. And I was like, that's that you want to talk about science.

Wow. Wow. Not a shitty kitty. Maybe you should be focused on that biology, you stinky bitch. And so I called them fucking losers. And then I said, and I beg your friends talk about how bad you stink when you walk away. I bet they do that. And then at the end, I said, you guys can suck my dick.

And then I said, actually suck it from the back because I don't want to look at you. And that's what made them really mad at me. Like, turfs. Go really mad at me. The turf. Yeah, turfs. So they started attacking me saying I don't actually care about women because I don't care about bio with quotes, women.

And I was like, your gender and sex are two different things. I know that's really hard for you to like. They don't. Yeah. They don't get that. That's way too advanced. And it's so funny because it turned into this whole thing. And they're like trying to justify it with religion and shit.

Don't do that either. I was like, pause. Don't do that either. Exactly. I was like, pause, pause, pause, pause. I was like, I don't want to have this conversation with you because all of you don't want to learn and all of you are bigoted. You just don't want to admit it for whatever fucking reason. You know, like Trump supporters, they sometimes get embarrassed that you call them that.

What are you shy? Okay. Are you ready for this? My neighbor is a Trump supporter. Okay, too. And they fly their flag in their backyard. What are you nervous? Why?

Why aren't you? proud. Yeah. Why isn't that shit on your front yard? Exactly. Why isn't it flying hot? Commit, you fucking bitch.

Look, look. You won. You should be gloating. You should be proud. Exactly. Or the price of eggs down? Baby. Oh, I hate that they

moved in next to me. Oh my God. It's a far. But it's a test. It is. And I love it because they're going to have to eat it because we are loud. We smoke on my line all the time.

I have all my family-ass friends over there. Cut up. Honey. Yes, ma'am. Talking loud. I love that you called it a Lanai. Yes, ma'am. I'm a golden girl, honey.

Are you? Oh, my God. Everybody knows me and my relationship with the Golden Girls. Baby. You know the Lanai is Hawaiian for porch. Yeah. I didn't know you got him from Golden Girls. I also identify as Polynesians.

Period. That part. Love that. Look at us. Yeah, that part. I love that for you. I think that's fucking awesome. I'll dub you right now.

There you go. There you go. It'll be the seal of approval. Thank you. Please. Finally. My people, honey. You know what's funny is I've talked about this with my family and my friends before,

but like Samoan culture and black culture, we have a lot of similarities in many different ways, but there's a lot of media that we consume, and I don't know anyone else that consumes it. It's just my black friends and Samoan people. So like, for example, movies like drumline, the Friday series, Stomp the Yard, right, in Living Color is another one, right?

And anything, or even like music, like baby face or Luther Vandross. Oh my God, you're talking my language. Right, or things like the electric slide. Baby. Doing it at funerals and birthday parties. Because it's a celebration. Yeah, exactly. A celebration of life?

Of life. Right, exactly. Period. That's why I was like, there are some things where I'm like, nobody gets that except my black friends and my someone friends. We consume a lot of the same media. It's really true. Yeah, it hits us all the same. It's true. So I, that's why I said, I dub you. There you go. I love that. Oh, so you have a Trump supporting neighbor. I have a couple too in my neighborhood too. And I've even, I see them. And every time I see them, I give it a thumbs down when I drive by it. Big old thumbs down. Yeah. Even I told my fiance the other day.

I was like, one day I'm going to get a BB gun and I'm just going to shoot holes through that bitch. But they're also flying them in the backyard. Backyard. And I can see it. I can see it. Yeah, and it pisses me to fuck off. It really does.

But I like, you know what? I'm like, this ain't going to steal my joy because the fact that they are flying in their backyard I already show that they're ashamed of themselves. Exactly. And that's why I'm, I commend you for being able to do a show like we're here because that can be very triggering too, to like to reenter.

spaces that are unsafe and like almost re-experience things that you've absolutely already gone through and weathered so I commend you for being able to do stuff like that I think you i'll tell you i'll tell you i don't mean to cut you off but i'll tell you what the major difference is yeah yeah i know who the fuck i am period bitch i know who i am period period bitch i wish you will try to tell me about me bitch you don't know me exactly but i can tell you about you exactly because you you you've met hundreds of thousands of you. You are dime or dozen? Exactly.

Fucking exactly. You're definitely not an egg. And not again, what? Not chunky nor funky. No. Huh. Honey. What would you say was your most memorable part of working on that show?

Because I know it can be very moving. Actually, the church. Really? That scene in the church took me out. Well, because there was a lot of anxiety. anxiety coming up, like just getting ready to go inside. Yeah. Wishing you could be there live for the big game, soaking up the atmosphere in a crowd.

But too often, life gets busy, or the price holds you back. Price line is here to help you make it happen. With millions of deals on flights, hotels, and rental cars, you can go see the game live. Don't just dream about the trip. Book it with Priceline. Download the Priceline app or visitpriceline.com. Actual prices may vary, limited time offer. All those voices started coming in my head.

Like I'm making a mockery, a blasphemist, going up in this church and drag, all the things that, you know, you heard, you know. And I really didn't want to go in. And I was having a moment, but I didn't tell anybody. I had to breathe through, put on my big girl panties and say, no, this is the moment that you need to go in here. You need to do this. Right. And so once I got in there and then I hear all those affirming words which were completely opposite of everything I've ever heard in a church.

Yeah. It took me out. And I was so emotional. Totally. But it was healing. I bet. Oh, I'm sure. It was so affirming.

And I like when he, when the pastor, um, he. called our drag a ministry in which that's how I consider my drag. Yeah, you've always seen it. Yeah, you've always seen it. I was just like, that's all the affirmation I need. That's right there. That's it. I'm in God's house and I'm already like, I'm ordained.

Right. Yeah. Exactly. So it was, that was my. Absolutely. I can only imagine, but probably like transformative. It really was. And also you're, you are a living, breathing testimony.

Right? Because of your, because of your background. now what you do now, like there is no other way to see it other than a testimony, like truly. Like, a ministry, really. I think that's a beautiful way of describing it because that's so true. It really, and I'm like, and I know that I'm healing people. Right. And people are coming up to me daily every, like literally every moment.

Yeah. And letting me know how I am touching and affecting lives, do not change. Please keep doing what you're doing. Right. And I'm like, I promise you I'm going to keep on going. Right. But I, you know, like, you have to take care of yourself and you have to recharge. And actually this trip is for that.

This is the trip that I made to come here to get recharged and get back in the feeling with my sisters and that camaraderie and getting that creative, juicing spaces and be inspired and all that. And so this trip has done that for me, so I'm really happy. So now I can keep on going another nonstop, you know, another nonstop full five years and I see you again, you know. And that's true. And I think too, it's also like when you take really good care of yourself, like you take some time off so you can recharge and re-center that like allows you to keep going, obviously. But it also allows you to like refill your cup just in general, like spiritually, emotionally. I have to. I know, especially because I know you've been in the game for a long time.

You've been doing so well for so long. Like what helps refill your cup the most, you would say? Good energy, good people. You have to really make sure you have the right people. in your court. Right. And because, like, I've learned, and it's been painful to have to let people go. It's like mourning of death almost because you're losing them and you just can't take

them with them because it's not healthy for you. Yeah, and where you're headed. And where I'm going. Yeah. You can't go because you're not ready yet. Yeah, exactly. You know, and so, sorry, boo-boo, I got to go. Yeah.

But having people who recharge you and understand you and make sure that you are taking care of. It's important. And we have this phrase called drinking while pouring. So like, you know, it's important that you give or whatever, but you can't just deplete yourself. Right. You have to like, as you're giving, you have to have somebody pouring into you. And so that's what we always do. We make sure we're pouring into each other. Yeah. Especially what it is you do because it is so, obviously physically it's taxing, obviously like working all the time and not sleeping that much, traveling all of that but like what it is you do like the people that you touch the lives that you touch the testimonies you hear because even like when bob was on recently again we joked about how like

he asked me if i get trauma dumped on and i was like well yeah obviously and i was like but obviously you've been doing it for a long time too and so you're also like one of the first like you're like a one of one kind of queen right so it's like so when they come to you they're like they i'm sure they have so many testimonies and it can be heavy to like carry that. And also it feels like a responsibility that you have. Yeah, because you want them to be heard. You want them to feel like you, someone understands them.

Totally. And so, yeah, I take it in, but it is a lot to take in. And you have to be able to release that because, you know, you can't, I can't care. I'm big enough. I don't need. Yeah, can't carry any more weight. Maybe, I'm good. My name is not good.

Yeah, good people, good weed. Baby. They're both green queens. 100%. And that is the other part of it. That keeps me on a level because if I'm not on a level, it's not going to be fun for nobody, girl. It's not.

Me too. I sometimes think I'm like, well, see, if I don't have that, I'll grow 10 times the size of a building like Godzilla and I'll wreak havoc on Japan. It's going to be. I need it. That's why it's medical and I got my medical card.

Mine's not, but. Mine is, let me tell you. starting to feel medical. It is. Because it's necessary. Well, because Florida is only medical, but like when I came here, I didn't realize that I wasn't on the medical card. I gave them my card yesterday, baby.

It went green, which meant that I can buy a lot more than you. Woo! Happy days I hear you. Baby, listen. You went to the dispensary yesterday? Yes, ma'am. You know it's so funny? So did I.

And I went and I was said, one of everything. Shopkeep. That's how I felt. I'll take the lot I'll take the lot honey well today is a Wednesday and the one I'm going to

back to today has a special half off I'm sorry you said the one I'm going back to today honey yes indeed do you like OG flower or do you like the babes or do you like

edibles or are you just a me literally me girl what check my bag right now what you got what you got edible I got flour what you need dabs what you want girl I went to the Elton John after party of the Oscars right this year and when I went there I took my own vape I always have at least two on me at all the battery going to die and I'm going to be mad

The first time I ever got like a vape one, one of my friends. It was like three, four years ago. That was the first of my ever got it. Otherwise, I was smoking pre-rules or like OG Bud, but I had never gotten the little vapes. So when I got my first one, I told one of my friends. And then he goes, good luck doing anything sober for the rest of your fucking life. And then I was laughing about it. He wasn't kidding.

Not a lot. It makes it way too easy. It's the way it's supposed to be. It's too convenient. Yeah. That's the purpose. It's doing. its job. Exactly.

And God put it on earth. And here we are. Again, who am I to question this plan? I'm not questioning God. That's the almighty. He knew better. He knew I was going to be a pot head. He knows that about me. He knows my heart. He knows your heart. And what's left of your brain?

When I was at the after party, I took my vape, I took it there, and then I was like, I took my sister and we were getting kind of drunk and then I had my little vape with and then I was walking around and I can't say who it was but I was hanging out with my friends who was that you

who will have the game it's not even that big one of but I don't know if anyone knows they do this so I don't want to like out them but I was saying my babe this person's famous and we're like kind of king and then one of my girlfriends was like oh I wish I had weed I go right now she goes yeah I go here and I offered mine and then the other person goes I have one too and we were all hitting each other's pens

and I go this is crazy is good. I'm sharing germs with famous people. You are. I bet y'all were high as hell. Oh, I was so fucked up. Because you're just mixing strange. You don't know what she got. I don't know what she got, but it tastes good. Ooh, this tastes like strawberries. I know, I was like, and I had a clip in, bang.

I was like, woo! Oh, he was feeling it. I was going crazy that night. I love it. You want to hear something crazy, though? The next day, I was pretty hungover, which I, I don't really drink because I always smoke. So, if I do drink, it's like a special occasion. But the next morning, I felt like, I was Ooh, I'm kind of hungover.

I woke up at like 7 a.m. Because I had to, I needed water. I was like, I need water so bad. So I like went to the little fridge in my hotel room. And I didn't have any more of our water. So I just took one of theirs. I'm like, they're going to charge me $45 for this, but it's fine. So I'm like chugging the water.

I drink like half of it. And then I'm like, as I'm standing there trying to catch my breath, almost shit my pants. Can you believe that? What do you mean? Like literally I almost pooped my pants because I was that hungover. Isn't that insane? Wait. What?

Yeah, I don't know what that has to do. Wait, you drink water. Yeah. And immediately had to shit. Yes. Can you believe that? And I don't know if that's, I mean, you're older than me. Tell me, does that happen as you get older?

No, girl. I don't know what's probably too. I don't drink water and have to shit. What? Girl! That's never happened to me in my life. It was the alcohol. Were you drinking brown liquor?

No, I was drinking, um, champagne more than anything champagne and wine wine yeah I was on some white girl shit it was the grapes I was on my I was on my great's a raft girl yeah clearly clearly what the fuck I was so

overwhelmed and I was like what the fuck like I literally almost poop my pants and that reminds me of Katsia because she's shitty pants I'm not seeing of shit in her man because when she was here the first time she told me you never shit yourself

And I go, like, actual poop in my pants, no. And then she was like, yeah, you have you fucking liar. She literally did not believe me. And then she was the first person I thought of when I almost shit myself. It was going to happen. This is going to be the moment. Yeah, she put that curse on me. It's like that meme that says, like, just got my lick back from 2016.

Don't ever rest around me. It felt like she put that shit on me. Literally, she's so mad. So mad. See what happened. When you hang out with drag queens, you almost poop your pants. You know why? Because they're the shit.

But I'm pumped. What's your favorite strain? What do you like to smoke? Indica Sativa. I'm an indica girl. Me too. For real. I can do an indica hybrid.

Love. But the sativas, I really, I could smoke a whole bag and be like, did I smoke anything? Me too. It's so weird. It does nothing for me. I'd just be like, I'm. Am I high? Maybe I'm high because I'm questioning if I'm high.

Right, exactly. But no, if I was high, but no, I was high. You know what I mean? I'm going to do all that. So that's what Sativa does to me. Right. Makes me all in my head. It feels like it makes me focus, which I know people will diagnose me with something,

and they're going to tell me I have a mental illness and that's probably what it is. We all do, but like. They're going to diagnose me with something, I'm sure. Yeah. But the few times I've done Sativa, I feel like it just makes me more focused. So, like, I can. do tasks. Yeah, you can.

Which is not the point of it. No, not for us. We're trying not to task. No, yeah. I wanted to make, I wanted to make me silly. Like, silly as silly as fuck. I'm gonna keep key. Right.

And eat. Do you smoke while working? Always. Yeah, same. One time. I'm like, if we are breathing, I'm high. I'm just saying. I'm just.

Me too. Someone asked like, do you have any tips? Like recently I did a Q&A and they were like, do you have any tips to like wean off like weed because I feel like I'm becoming dependent on it? And I said, yeah, I said, I feel like I can't get enough personally. So I don't think I'm the person to ask. I literally was like, is there tips? You let me know.

Because I'm not your person for that. I'm trying to figure out why you would want to do that. People would be like, I need to stop the weed. I'm like, why? Why? Are you okay? Are you okay? No, I just don't get anything done.

So when me and my husband first got together, okay, he was a little bowl smoker. Okay. Like in a pipe? Like a little pipe. Okay. He had a little corn cop pipe. I mean, girl, the bowl was like that big and I was holding it like this. Half a nug, yeah.

You know, like, but these soup coolers, honey, I'm going to be scared I'm going to like my lips on fire. Like, but he was a bowl smoker, so he didn't smoke blunts. I smoked blunts. Me too. And so, girl, me. got to hang out. I would love to. I'll smoke you out crazy, bitch.

For real. And so when he first started hanging with me and then started working with me, as we got closer and things, I'm always smoking. I'm smoking with him and he's like, babe, babe, babe, look, do you want me to be high or do you want me to work?

I said, yes. But you need to learn how to focus while high because this is going to be the standard. I'm like, we're going to be high. Yeah, exactly. But we need to get shit done. Right. I don't know what you're up to, but this is the type of shit I'm on.

Is it? And he's learned now. Now, he's very well adapted and we can smoke blunt to be at the computer at the same time. I feel the same way. I honestly sometimes feel like I do better. No, you have to. And like, I know that I get things done when I'm, it helps me focus. Yeah, me too.

Honestly, I feel like it quiets the voices in my head a little bit so I can focus. Yeah. And because I always carry. my pen on my person, but I was hosting something for so it was big, big deal, right? So I'm like, okay, and I was working all day. This was my last thing of the day. So I'm just ripping that shit like crazy in my dressing room.

I'm like, I'm going nuts on that thing. And so then my mom's like, oh, let's go to the restroom and then we'll go upstairs because there was like a little dinner thing we had to do. And then I had to host for like a few hours. And so I was going to be at the dinner though for like maybe 30 minutes. So I'm like, okay. And I'm hitting it as I'm walking out, but then there's people walking that are like dancers.

And I just didn't want to like be disrespectful. So I swallowed the smoke, but I was already trying to blow it. So you know when you like change directions like that? Then I started like, I was like, oh, right? Like that like coughing where you're like trying not to cough. So I go in the restroom. I'm like, okay, I'm a hold this so I get in the stall. I go in the restroom.

I'm lighting it up in there. I'm like, uh, uh, I sound like a thousand years old. I sound like I have the black plague. like I'm giving it my own I started sweating because I was trying to get it out maybe that's gonna make you higher I know I know and then I walk out of the room

and my mom is standing out there and she's waiting for me because they were like single stall rush them so they had like doors and so she came out and she was like are you okay and I go I'm like my eyes are all bloodshot yeah why wouldn't I be I never understand

yeah and then my mom goes what were you doing in there and I was like What do you mean? And she goes, the coughing. And then I go, you can hear me? Oh, girl. Because I thought it was like soundproof. Oh, my God.

And then because I was high. So I was like, no one can hear me in this little cardboard box. Oh. And then she goes, everyone could hear you. And I was like, nice. Love that. Then as I'm going up the stairs to go to the dinner, I realize I'm a little too high. And by that, I don't mean I got this, I get the scaries.

I never get the scaries. I get too silly. Which means I'm going to make a tit joke at this. And I can't do that because John Legend is there with his kids. So I can't do that. And so I'm like, I am so silly right now. I need to like get this out of my system. And so my cousin, he does my hair makeup.

He was sitting with me and I go, I start cracking jokes like left and right to him. I'm like trying to make him laugh to get it out of my system. And I told him and I was like, I feel like I have to go outside and have the zoomies. Like on all fours. I just need to run around. Just run around. Let it all out. You know, sometimes like when you need to tire out little kids, you're like,

let me say how fast you can run down that hallway and come back that's how I felt like I had to go downstairs and run a couple laps to just tire myself in that bathroom stall girl and it echoed through the whole dude God himself could hear me calling me from the top of Mount Everest you could hear me I can tell you a story please do okay the time that we smoked out the entire church choir at a party a house party so the church the choir was having a going away party for one of the members. Okay. And so everyone was gathered and in the house, and then we show up, of course.

Bad news there's. Right. And we asked the host where we should go to smoke because we didn't want to be disrespectful. Right. He goes, oh, go to the back guest room and it'll be fine. So, like, eight of us. Yeah. Go to the back guest room.

and we lighten up we got a circle going we got like three blunts going and it was just rotating it chieffing yeah like hot boxing right little did we know that we were in the room you said this place was steps from the water we just haven't found the steps yet how much did we save enough enough to get lost or you could book a stay with hilton welcome to your ocean front room just steps from the water The Hilton sale is on now. Book on Hilton.com or the Hilton app and save up to 20% to get the stay you expected. When you want savings, not surprises.

It matters where you stay. Hilton, for the stay. With a vent for the AC, this is your air. It's pushing it all through the house. You're hotboxing the house? The whole house. So we come out and nobody's inside the house.

Everybody's outside. We're like, where everybody goes? The rapture it happens. And then we realized that we had a smoke there in a movie. Three ones inside is crazy. Inside a closed room, girl. That's crazy. That reminds me of college, though.

That was a happen in college all the time. My girlfriends and I, we used to do this thing for birthdays where we would all pitch in to get one gift for one of our friends. And so, because we were all fucking broke. And one of our friends was big old pothead. Like, we all were, but to some extent, I didn't really smoke at all in college. It wasn't until after. but like my friend's big old potheads. And our friend was two things we knew about her.

She loved weed and she loves Beyonce. Those are the only two things that you ever really need to know about her. Okay. And so like we got her a bong, like we got her really nice bong with like purple in it because that was her favorite color. And then we had a buddy that could stain glass. So he like stained glass like designed Beyonce's like face on her on her bong. And we called it be bongseh, basically. And it was like

When I tell you she cried when we gave it to her Oh my God It's like To be loved is to be seen Like that is there Oh really Oh my God guys She's like I get me

That's the most insane gift in the world It was fucking insane Oh my God I love but it's thoughtful Yeah it's very thoughtful But it's I feel like it was just a red herring For my future Being a big old pot

Yeah And I do love Beyonce And I do love weed So there you go It is what it is. All's well that ends well. That's the part. I do have some fun facts about you.

Okay. I'd love to partake in them. I'd love to know some fun facts about me. Okay. So it says here that you were born in Torrance. Yeah. Yes. My producer wrote, me too.

Were you really? Torrance Memorial. That's it? Oh my God. Yes. Okay, period. And you're an Aquarius. I'm Aquarius.

Love that. It says you're an ordained minister. I am indeed. Have you married people? Very much so. Oh my gosh, how is that? So that's what changed really literally my whole life. Because on the show, on that show, I would say like, I don't want to be called gay marriage.

You know what I mean? I didn't have a name for it at the time in the other day. But I just knew I didn't want to be called that because it made it feel like it was something different and wrong. Yeah. It was the connotation that I didn't like. And so a friend of mine. asked me when like we were still trying to fight for marriage equality nationwide but like new york he did it you know california did it like so um they were in new york and he was like

i would love for you to officiate my wedding i was oh yeah okay sure just let me know they you know and this is after the show after drag grace and all that kind of stuff so i was busy and and i just kind of passed it off as yeah yeah yeah sure yeah yeah i'm feeling fun yeah not ever thinking that he was really serious about it. And then he was like, so I was just calling and check in on these dates and see if you were still going to be able to, I was like, oh, you're for real, for real. Yeah. Okay, so let me go ahead and go. Let me go get this certificate, you know.

So I got ordained to perform his wedding and it was really beautiful because I took it seriously because I like, to me, it is a union. It is really that promise that can. commitment. And I was able to see true love for what it was. Both sides of the family were there in support. I met the mom and dad on both sides, stepmother, stepfathers, like their parents had divorced and remarried or whatever, but like everybody was there. And so it was really, really, really sweet. And so that gave me a different kind of perspective in eye. And then I started doing the campaign, a toast to marriage, where I was trying to get people to get voters, out to get

so we can pass it nationwide and it did. But then I started getting so many weddings. So that became a gig, a new gig. I was like, I got a wedding package deal for you. You know, I'll come officiate

and perform at your reception. That's fucking awesome. That's like you get a two-per. Exactly. So people were hopping on that. So I started doing lots of weddings. That became my other gig. And pretty soon

through that, I started realizing that this is something that I want. I never thought I saw this happening in my lifetime, but now I want it. That's so incredible. And that's what I just kind of shifted your face on the edge. It shifted completely. Yeah, because you got to see, and honestly, probably because you got to see it

where it's not existing in like a cisgendered, heterosexual white supremacist ideology. It's not existing in that space. So you can see it for what it is, which is a union, the partnership. Like it's two people coming together and committing to each other. Without all the trappings of white supremacy and like capitalism tied to it, it's like a beautiful union. It's a beautiful thing.

Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. It's like actual pure beautiful thing. Yeah, yeah. And I like, wow, that's so beautiful. Yeah, and so then I wound up proposing to my husband. Oh, that's so sweet. Yeah. Did you marry each other?

Did you marry you guys? We married, yeah, the dude. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see, yeah, no time for that. like baby.

He knew he wasn't marrying her. But we had a beautiful wedding. I love. It was stars steady because the girls were at my wedding and not drag con. Just saying. Just saying. New York dragcon was a little slim. It was empty that day.

They had some girls, but they didn't have the girls. The girls were at my wedding. And I bet they were fired up about that because I know DragCon is exhausting. And so we definitely have. at like a time a time oh my gosh how exciting i'm getting married next year do you have any tips for me i do i would love i would love a good tip just have a party girl but gather this though i was filming drag race damn during the time that you were planning the wedding yeah like i was in drag race held uh june july august we're getting married in september damn and he couldn't

talk to me for those months no phone you said i'll see you on the day of the wedding see you there Maybe. But he did a great job. Yeah. And his mother actually was very supportive. Oh, that's so beautiful. I love that. It turned out to be wonderful and beautiful because we gave everybody an experience.

I love that. Good singing, a live band, like we did it. Because we're entertainers. Yeah. So we wanted our guests to have an experience. You like to host? Baby. I love to host.

I'm a good host. Yeah, me too. Baby, we throw it down. Yeah. And I can cook. Yeah. So you know there's going to be good for me. Okay, period.

I can't cook. I mean, I can. I just don't, I don't really, like, want to. But my fiancee loves to cook. Oh, but that's his seat. Okay. Yeah, he cooks, I sit there and I talk. That's fabulous.

I entertain. Okay. You got to know your purpose. Exactly. Hello. We all know our strengths. Yes, I do. See?

That's my contribution. That's fair. We trade off. What's your favorite thing to cook? Girl, everything. Yeah. Do you have, like, a specialty, though? You're like, when I know this one hits forever.

Well, because everybody loves my like baked spaghetti. I have a baked spaghetti recipe that will just like baby. I love spaghetti. Girl. That's my favorite meal. You ain't had it like this. I bet I have it. I believe you.

You like meat because my sauce is meat. Yes. Yes. I got meat. I feel like there's not enough meat in certain things a lot. But girl, we got, we got meat. Okay. Well, we have a lot of plans then.

We got to smoke out and then we got to. I got to take it to the good beaches. Yes. And then we got to have baked spaghetti. We got to have baked spaghetti. Yeah. Girl, come on down. We got, we got shit to do.

We have shit to accomplish. You have shit to do. Okay, let me see some of these other fun facts. Okay. Oh, it says on here, Latrice proposed to her now has been on stage during a performance at Seattle Pride in 2016. How was that? It was a crazy time. Yeah.

Pulse had just happened. Oh, okay. And I literally have made plans to propose to him that the week before I, that had happened and I was debating whether or not I should do it or not and my spirit was like absolutely the world needs something yeah positive to happen right now and so yeah I did it we were in Seattle that's where we fell in love you know like we had our first kind of like travel to meet me at a gig date yeah was in Seattle cute and he was so sweet he had got there before me because I was

coming from, I think I was in Dublin, Ireland. Okay. So I was coming from Ireland and he was coming from Tennessee. He got there a day before me so I put him on that reservation so he can check in. So when I arrived he had

like saw a YouTube video once when I had my birthday and I was like I just want some balloons and some cake and some drinks. That's all I went for my birthday. Yeah. And he had like some balloons. and some cupcakes from cupcake Royale

and a bottle of champagne waiting for me and it was the sweetest gesture no one had ever done anything like romantic for me and he had just that's when he just reeled me in that's how it's like

oh my baby so we went from complicated until we were dating it was complicated at first you know oh my gosh that's so beautiful okay it says that you performed

a gender flipped version of sister Act called Mr. Act off Broadway in 2016. That happened too. Sister Act's another movie set that that someone's love. Sister Act 2 is my favorite one. Of course.

Yes, of Lauren Hill, obviously. Yeah. Joyful, joyful. Yes. But, yeah, Peaches Christ's production. She wrote the script and it was featured

me and Willem. Will I'm played the little mousy nun, which is so not her. So she was tapping in since the actress, but it was so fabulous. We toured it here in Northern California, and then I took it and produced it in Fort Lauderdale. It was really, really amazing. So we're talking about bringing it back. You have to. We're going to bring it back.

You have to. You have to. I want to bring it back. I just got chills. sing, I do. I know that. I'm jealous. I wish I could fucking sing.

I'll come watch it though. When you revive it, I'll come watch it. Please do. It says that you chose the drag name Latrice Royale because you knew a girl in school named Latrice and she thought Royal royale, quote, sounded delicious. Okay, so that's almost it.

So my little childhood best season was named Latrice, beautiful black girl. You know, them girls with the good hair? And then they mama put, she would put her hair and all the little pretty barrettes and her little, and her hair were just like shingling, ling, like that. Yeah.

So, like, that was, that's who I hung out with all the time at a recess. Um, and then when I was choosing my name, my good friend Matt was with me when I was signing up for that show, that dreadful night at the Copa. Right before your lyrical dance hit the same. Well, the dance hit the floor, honey. They asked me, well, what's your name? And I said Latrice. They said, Latrice, what?

And I'm like, I just know LaTriece. I didn't really get that far. I didn't get that far. Right. I'm just here because they made me come. Yeah. And then my friend Matt actually gave me the Royale. He goes, well, you're chocolate-y and like Fudge Royale.

Royal. So, Royal. And Latrice Royal has been. That was the name. name. Then she was born. And then she was born and now she's established. And now she's incorporated.

Period. And fucking period. And then this last one says you were on an episode of Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey. Oh, my God. How was that? Amazing. Baby, look, to make Steve Harvey uncomfortable and cringe is the lifetime goal. Baby, we let him have it.

It was so much fun just making him uncomfortable. Rue started it, though. So she started it. Michelle was cool, but then Carson. Baby, Carson's a nut. He's a nut. And then he got to me, and then it was on the popping. Maybe I grew up with brothers like you, so I know how to handle your ass.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But I really felt, like, really honored because Rue chose me to be on her court team. Like, that's a big deal, too. She brought her crew, and I was a part of it. That's so fucking cool. And it was a fun experience. It was a whole, it was a fun. Because Family Feud is my favorite show, my favorite game show.

And like, I never thought because I had no family to go. I'm sorry. It would be so dark, but, like, oh, never go. Well, the one thing you need. You need family to go on Family Feud. It's kind of the whole part. Yeah, the whole part, right? the name um but we were feuding yeah we had that part down i was feuding with my family i have half of

it i had it down i just didn't have it in the right way um so yeah so i never thought i would be able to get on the show but like when you have your chosen family and you get to go and you become a celebrity you know a celebrity that's so fucking and again yet another example of you being loosely related to me because my family loves family feud we went through a real family feud app phase because they had like they have like a game on oh yeah yeah yeah yeah we went through a real phase with that like we were playing it constantly like trying to beat each other and stuff and my family has actually gone on family feud um way back in the day oh really yeah and i was too young to go on at the time so like my parents went and some of my aunts and uncles went together like as a team

um they got kicked out real real fast but like they were super entertaining because like my family's just like me like loud and they make people uncomfortable and they make jokes. And like I only remember my mom like recorded it for us like on VHS so we could watch it because and I remember watching it on the TV on VHS. That is wild. I was crazy watching my parents on TV. That's a long time ago.

Yeah, losing at that game and my mom being too competitive. Like it's just like. Now you be competitive and lose. Yeah, I see. My mom was like, well, it's like a group project and they weren't listening to me. I was like, alright queen. Okay, girl. I love it.

Well, to kind of like tie a little, pretty little bow on the end of this episode, I would love to know if you have any advice for anyone looking to, not just going to drag, but just into entertainment as a whole and maybe might be afraid given the world we're living in now, like maybe living in fear of performing, making your art, like, just kind of putting yourself out there. Do you have any advice for anyone like that? I mean, my biggest thing like that drives what I do is passion. And if you don't have a passion for it, don't do it. Yeah.

If you don't have a thick skin, don't do it. Right, exactly. Because, like, these are the things that, like, you have to be able to take criticism, rejection. You have to be able to self-reflect. You have to be able to do a lot of things that normal jobs don't require you to do. Exactly.

You don't learn how to deal with. And there's no school that, you know, teach you the business the way experience. you the business because people are a trip but if you are strong-willed if you are a person that has a passion for whatever it is passion for fashion or drag or whatever do it yeah go wholeheartedly there is room for everybody at the table I agree whether people seem to think so or not yeah is like you create your own lane like I do yeah absolutely it's a double wide lane but bitch is mine and you had no choice you have no choice because it's out of necessity and like no

No one is sitting around here waiting to produce and say, hey, Drew, I have this great show for you. I think you'll be wonderful for. Let me give this to, that's not happening. That's why you're here and you've got your own shit. Like you got to make your own. Yeah, your own lane. Yeah.

Well, and I think that's fantastic advice. And I also want to give you your flowers because I think you are a legend. Obviously, you're a legend in the community in general, but especially to me. And I also think people like you existing in entertainment and not just not just in the world of drags, obviously that's where you blew up. But like you've transcended that for a while now and you've been building an empire. And that's why you're a longstanding legend in the game. And I just want to give you your flowers for that because I think people like you are so important and so imperative to like keep not just like obviously you're always fighting for others, marginalized groups, once you're a part of and once you're not. But more importantly, like seeing you succeed and seeing you live life, be married, be happy.

happy, be in love. Like, those are all things I think are so powerful. And I think you continuing to do that loudly and proudly and boldly and publicly is like, it makes a huge difference. So I just want to give you your flowers for that. I admire you. I've admired you for a long time. Thank you.

Yeah, of course. I just think you're amazing. And I'll stop jerking you off now. Please don't. Don't just hedge me like that. And then no happy ending, girl. We're both taken women. We're spoken for.

We can't do this. That's true. We can. You can take a look at him. Go ahead. Let me know if it suits your fancy. Oh, this is him? Yeah.

Baby. Right. I know. You did that. Right. He's handsome. It's annoying as fuck. Oh, my God.

He has really long hair. Yeah. For real? So you must got that thing to length time. Oh, Drew. Wait, can I tell you a joke? You have my name. Yep, me do.

one of my girlfriends one time we were so fucked up and we were at like an award show like at the end of it and she was like I need to ask you something and I go yeah and I've known her for years so she has never asked me anything like that she goes it's really good isn't it and then I at the time I wasn't engaged so I was like I mean seven years no ring

what do you think? I'm kidding that's a joke but then here we are but yet girl look at that like a rock oh yeah

What? Yeah, picked all by himself. Can you believe it? I know that's fucking right. That's correct. Check mark, baby. Yes. You need a drag queen at your reception?

You are absolutely in by that. You are coming, obviously. I was going to invite you whether you thought he was ugly or not. I was swimming in by you. I already know this is going to be the event. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. I don't think it all shine yours, but it'll be fun.

Girl. I'm going to try to compete, though. Please do. Yeah, I will. You better. Because go big or go home. I set a standard. Yeah, I can believe you.

Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. My pleasure. I'm glad we were able to make this happen. I know, finally. Well, that's why, like I said, once you're done being successful and busy, I'm here. I'm waiting. Okay. Just hanging out.

Waiting for you. Thank you so much for coming to the show. For the two people maybe that maybe don't know of you or where to find you, where can they find you? I am, I have the TikTok cap. Instagram at LaTriece Royal. I'm on Facebook too. Yes.

You can follow me there. Love. And then I don't really deal with that X thing anymore. Me either. And I haven't moved over to blue skies. Me either. So it's just a little bit. It's more like Instagram or Facebook.

Period. Or my website. Yes. You can keep up with me at LaTrease Royal.com and buy some merch at my store. Period. Get into it. There you go. Thank you so much for coming again.

You're fantastic. I love you. I love you more. You're the best. Thank you all so much for tuning in to this episode of the comment section show. Don't forget to stream. New episode of the comment section every Wednesday. You can stream the audio on all streaming platforms or the video lives for free and exclusively

on our favorite platform, Spotify. So thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you to my amazing guest, Latrice Royale, and I'll see you next week. Bye. Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination for today's superstars. Catch the Jonas Brothers return to the Yamaha The Yamava Theater stage on April 30th.

The powerful vocals of Demi Lovato on May 17th and the signature Southern Country Rock of Eric Church on July 19th. Tickets on sale now at Yamava Theater.com. Only at Yamava Resort and Casino, celebrating its 40th anniversary. You win? Must be 21 to enter. Spring just slid into your DMs. Grab that boho look for that rooftop dinner, those sandals that can keep up with you,

and hang some string lights to give your patio a glow up. Springs Calling Ross, work your magic.