RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Rosé will soon find out whether she can sing the future. All the way back on season 13, episode 3, the self-proclaimed fashion clown belted that she couldn’t wait to hear RuPaul say, “The winner is Rosé!” Now, there’s a one in four chance that will happen.
“This is my dream come true and I worked really hard for it,” Rosé reflects on making top four after beginning her Drag Race journey in The Porkchop Loading Dock. She just doesn’t want to sing about it right now. (“I didn’t warm up,” Rosé deadpans.) But, “I absolutely will tell you that I want to take home the crown,” Rosé adds. “Venmo me and I’ll sing you a tune!”
ET’s Brice Sander spoke with the queen ahead of Friday’s finale about what winning the crown would mean to her and whether that psychic was onto anything predicting romance between Rosé and season 13 sister, Denali.
ET: What would taking home that crown mean to you after seeing what this season has meant to so many people?
Rosé: Listen, this crown to me means so much more than I ever thought it could. I’ve always dreamt of being on Drag Race. I’ve heard people tell me for years, “I think you could do really well. I think you could win,” and I’ve always thought, “Maybe I could win.” But through the struggle and growth that I had to endure during filming, I really, really realized towards the end, I was like, “I can win this.” And I can win this. So, it would mean the world to prove that to myself and to everybody else, especially because it took the world a second to catch onto what was inside the bottle, baby, but it’s delicious, right?
Or inside the can, because I feel like the soda-branding episode [“Pop! Goes The Queen”] was your aha moment. Was that it for you, too?
It really was. It was fabulous for me to have achieved a win a few episodes prior for the Rusical, for several reasons, of course, but the branding challenge? That is tough. They can really goop and gag you on those episodes in other seasons I’ve seen. And listen, on TV, I’m telling ya, it was Symone’s night. We were watching it like, “Damn, Symone did great.” In the moment, I can’t even describe to you what it felt like in the room. It was like Symone just ascended into heaven. The judges were just living for the b**ch, and so were we! So, then to have gotten that surprise double win, I was like, “Oh, I’m crashing Symone’s party tonight, baby!” It was definitely a turning moment to be on the same level all of a sudden as, at that point, the frontrunner
