This article contains spoilers on who was eliminated from season six of Canada’s Drag Race, episode four.
The fourth episode of Canada’s Drag Race season six was all about quick wit and bringing the laughs. For the maxi challenge, the remaining queens took turns roasting each other one-on-one in front of a live audience. Before they hit the stage they picked the brain of this week’s guest judge, and international Drag Race icon Alyssa Edwards.
While some queens knew they had it in the bag, others struggled to find their footing with clap backs on the main stage. Queens Dulce, PM, and Hazel were named the bottoms of the week, while Eboni La’Belle took the top spot, as well as the power of the Golden Beaver.
Following critiques, each bottom queen made their case for the beaver, but Dulce’s passionate plea paired with her first trip to the bottom secured her the immunity totem. This left PM and Hazel to lip sync for their lives in a tight, and thoroughly entertaining performance to “Dumb Blonde” by Avril Lavigne and Nicki Minaj, which saved PM to slay another day, while Hazel was asked to sashay away.
Each week 29Secrets will be interviewing the eliminated queen. In an interview with Hazel, she shared what she was most intimidated by going into the competition, the saying that makes her feel fierce before hitting the stage, and how her background as an athlete helped her in the competition.
When you were preparing to enter the competition, what were you most intimidated by?
Sewing.
Now that you’ve been through it, what do you think was actually the hardest part about competing on Canada’s Drag Race?
Getting in your own head. It’s like literally your inner saboteur, because you don’t talk to anyone. You can’t have regular conversations with anyone. You go crazy. And I’m a sociable person, you know? So, it’s like I love to just talk or I’ll talk to a wall, which I started doing at one moment! I was like, “you need me to stop. You need to just journal right now.”
You’re totally cut off from your home support system, right? So, you’re really just like all you kind of have for that support.
Oh, a hundred percent. And if you like, have a little bit of doubt that starts creeping up a little bit, and a little more, and a little more. And honestly, you can use it to your advantage if you just get fully silly and stupid and like that. But sometimes it can be a little, little too much, you know?
I read that you used to be a competitive diver, so I wanna know what you were able to take from your experience as an athlete and transfer it to your drag career?
I definitely use all my athleticism from diving on the stage now. I’m lucky that I was in a sport where you had to be flexible, so I can definitely use that to my advantage if that’s a split or if that’s a flip or something like that. But also, what I learned was resiliency in diving as well.
You’re gonna go places, you’re gonna be able to go up, up, up. But then you’re gonna have a moment where you may just plateau for a bit, or you may drop and then you keep going. With diving, you will go up and down, up and down. And that’s the thing with drag where it’s like you can have that within.
And with me, that’s within myself. That comes from confidence, something like that where it’s like, I’ve stopped questioning myself now because I’ve realized, “Oh, I’m that bitch!” and you have to believe it. You know? I used to always say this when I would do a dive I would be like, “Don’t be a sad bitch. Be a bad bitch”, and then I would take off. So it’s literally right before I get on the stage, I’m like,”Don’t be a sad bitch. Be a bad bitch and fuck these bitches!” (laughs)
Reading battles is a tough challenge. What did you find to be the hardest part of it?
The live audience. No shade. I was so prepped for a roast of everyone. Okay? Like, you go in and you’re just like ready to hit off everyone. This is one V one, right? And you have to rebuttal and, I’m funny when I don’t need to be funny. You know? Like when I’m just chit-chatting like this, I just say what comes outta my mouth up there? I was reading the cards like a damn encyclopedia and I was like, “Hazel…” watching it back.
Looking back, was there anything that you would’ve done differently
Not read my cards! (laughs)
That’s fair! Your lip sync was really tight. In my humble opinion, possibly the closest and best I’ve seen on this show’s herstory. In your humble opinion, what makes an unforgettable lip sync?
There has to be levels, and I think that’s a thing where if you go a hundred percent right from the get go all the way through, the audience member’s gonna expect that. And can you keep up the whole time? I don’t know where you can take it up and then take it down, and show there’s different ways to emote. And I think that’s what will catch my eye when I watch drag. To see the performers who show me the levels and don’t just Shabbat Shablam 24/7.
You’re from Vancouver, What do you think sets Vancouver drag apart from drag everywhere else in Canada?
Ooh. What a question! I mean, I feel like everyone can say this about their own city, but I really, really, really do think that we are so, so talented, not just the performance queens. Our king scene here is immaculate! We’ve got some of the hottest men in Canada in this city, and also there’s a big Alt community as well. I think that’s the one thing about Vancouver drag is there’s so many different options that you can go out and see. I think that’s what’s really, really beautiful.
If you could go back in time and give the pre-Drag Race version of you one piece of advice, what would you say to her?
Keep your chin up. You are going to doubt yourself in so many moments. You just got to push forward. Don’t be a sad bitch. Be a bad bitch.
As you were leaving, you got a very special personal goodbye by the iconic Alyssa Edwards.
Literally gag!
She told you that it was just the beginning for you. So, I want to know where you hope to see Hazel in a year.
In a year, I really want to see myself travel more. Not just in Canada, I really want to bring my drag international. I really want to go to Europe and I also really want to up my social game as well. I really want to bring drag and the influencer side of social media more together, and I really just wanna start bringing drag into different spaces that you don’t really see it in.
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