Our big, herstory-making RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 winner is Willow Pill — not a big, but a Wiwwl Piwwl. Mama Ru crowned the Denver-based drag oddity as the franchise’s newest reigning superstar. At the end of Friday night’s grand finale, making her the first openly trans person to win the regular. Non-All Stars edition of the Emmy-winning American version of the global series. After a wild batch of episodes filled with fantastically weird, brilliantly monstrous performances and killer runway looks.
RuPaul presented Willow Pill with the sceptre
When Willow Pill accepted the sceptre from RuPaul and season 13 winner Symone, she said, “I just really want to thank my family and friends, and most importantly, I need to thank Kornbread’s ankle.” Willow Pill won Drag Race’s longest season after debuting two of the best lip-sync performances the show’s annual season-closer has ever seen — the first of which was set to an original number titled “I Hate People,” and saw the 27-year-old shimmy back and forth to a ’90s house beat with moulds of her own face perched on her shoulders and between her legs.
Willow Pill returned to the stage for one more lip-sync battle, but against who?
Finalists Angeria Paris VanMicheals, Bosco, and Daya Betty were eliminated in the Las Vegas finale. Which featured RuPaul descending from the ceiling on a fan of giant candy bars before being presented with the key to the city. Willow Pill returned to the stage for a final lip-sync battle against Britain-born showgirl Lady Camden. Willow Pill began the show by side-stepping in a gigantic pinstripe suit jacket. Which she eventually tore off to expose a giant pair of pants below, set to Cher’s ABBA version “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” (A Man After Midnight). She then removed them to reveal a figure-hugging body suit with thigh-high leggings. And finished the show by writhing around on the ground with Camden (who attempted to channel her iconic Freddie Mercury fall-reveal from earlier this season, though she appeared to struggle with a second wig hidden beneath her).