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This post contains spoilers for the April 7 episode of RuPaul's Drag Race.Reality TV villains love nothing more than to say how poorly they were portrayed and how they're not actually villains. And that, of course, is the bill of goods Drag Race season nine evictee Kimora Blac would like to sell you. After this season's first three episodes, where she did little more than talk about how amazing she is and how terrible all the other girls are, she was the second queen to be eliminated—and had nothing but sour grapes to share afterward.In tonight's episode, Kimora faced off against Aja in the final lip-sync, and Kimora was sent packing, possibly because it looked like she never bothered to learn the words to "Holding out for a Hero." But never fear: like a classic reality TV villain, she has an excuse for that.VICE: How do you feel now that your elimination episode has aired?
Kimora Blac: It's going to be a big release for me, just because the way I was portrayed was very much not the truth. But it is what it is. I've just got to accept it.How do you think you differ from the way you were portrayed?
Well, I'm not a villain, and I'm not a bitch. A bitch and a villain? They haven't even seen one yet. I didn't even cut anyone's hair off.How were you made out to be the villain?
I think they knew I was very blunt, and they knew my facial expressions were, too. They knew I was the only girl this season who spoke what I thought. I could tell a lot of the other girls held back. But I didn't go on Drag Race to hold back—if you're saying something weird, my face is going to go along with it. I think that's what the show liked, and what it got out of me, and why they projected me the way they did. But people who know me in person just know that's how I am, and they love me for it.But you did talk a lot of shade on some of the other girls—you called Jaymes a one and yourself a ten. They didn't manipulate statements like that.
No, I wasn't saying they manipulated anything at all. I was saying that if you ask me for a rating of each queen, I'm going to give you a rating. That's what I meant about being blunt. If you ask another girl that, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything. If you wanted to tell me if she's a one or a ten, okay, you gave me your option. I'll say that's a one. And you can decide what the one means.So do you think that you're better than all the other girls?
No, not at all. I don't think I'm better than anybody. The only queen I feel in competition with is myself. I didn't come here to think I'm better than anyone. We all got on the show, we all had the same script, and I'm so completely proud of all my sisters. We talk all day, and there's no shade. People think we have shade when we're on the show, but we're sitting here laughing about it because it's really not that way.How did feel when you found out that you were going home?
I don't want to say I was relieved, but I was done. I felt like I gave it the best effort that I could—I got on the show, I did it, and they just sent me home! I didn't come in backstabbing anybody. I didn't come here cheating anybody. I didn't come here cheating myself. I came here, did what I could have done for the challenges I was doing. I walked out of there honest, loyal, and okay.Why do you think they chose for Aja to stay over you?
I think the song matched Aja more than [me]. She's a dancer and knew the song; I didn't. Half the songs on the show are older than me. So it was a struggle for me to know the lyrics. Give me Nicki Minaj, give me Beyoncé, I'll slay it. But we didn't get that.Did they give you time to rehearse the song beforehand?
They do. But there was so much emotion and feeling running through me that day—it wasn't just the song that I was upset about, it was multiple things. When I have two minutes to shine, it's hard.What were some of those emotions?
I was really upset that while I stood there in an outfit that I sewed, created, and hand-made, I had Farrah Moan next to me with safety pins on her skirt, tucking it into her thong, then Aja on my left with an uneven jacket—it was like, what is going on? I thought this was a sewing challenge. I don't want to bring down the other girls, but if you're going to give me a sewing challenge, then let the sewing win.In this episode, out on the runway, you were talking to the judges about not wearing your hip pads or breastplate—can you explain a little more what you were trying to convey in that?
I was just explaining that in my drag, I've been wearing hip pads and a breastplate for the longest time. I'm a body queen, and there I was with no body. So for me to walk down the runway without them on was a lot. I'm coming out a completely different shape, and I was just letting the judges know that. I wasn't trying to blame myself or hide behind it. But I was completely glued down with my costume, ass out for the public to see, so it was a bit hard for me to do that. That wasn't my drag. That's not what I've been doing for so long.If you were to do the show again, would you do anything differently?
I would let my personality shine more. I don't think the bitch edit is the right way to describe me. I don't even think I was a bitch, I was just confident. I don't think "villain" is the right word either, because I didn't cut anybody's hair off or fight anybody. So I think just showing my personality, like, 'Oh she looks concerned, but she's actually dope, like she's nice and she's cool.'Follow Brian Moylan on Twitter.
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Kimora Blac: It's going to be a big release for me, just because the way I was portrayed was very much not the truth. But it is what it is. I've just got to accept it.How do you think you differ from the way you were portrayed?
Well, I'm not a villain, and I'm not a bitch. A bitch and a villain? They haven't even seen one yet. I didn't even cut anyone's hair off.How were you made out to be the villain?
I think they knew I was very blunt, and they knew my facial expressions were, too. They knew I was the only girl this season who spoke what I thought. I could tell a lot of the other girls held back. But I didn't go on Drag Race to hold back—if you're saying something weird, my face is going to go along with it. I think that's what the show liked, and what it got out of me, and why they projected me the way they did. But people who know me in person just know that's how I am, and they love me for it.But you did talk a lot of shade on some of the other girls—you called Jaymes a one and yourself a ten. They didn't manipulate statements like that.
No, I wasn't saying they manipulated anything at all. I was saying that if you ask me for a rating of each queen, I'm going to give you a rating. That's what I meant about being blunt. If you ask another girl that, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything. If you wanted to tell me if she's a one or a ten, okay, you gave me your option. I'll say that's a one. And you can decide what the one means.
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No, not at all. I don't think I'm better than anybody. The only queen I feel in competition with is myself. I didn't come here to think I'm better than anyone. We all got on the show, we all had the same script, and I'm so completely proud of all my sisters. We talk all day, and there's no shade. People think we have shade when we're on the show, but we're sitting here laughing about it because it's really not that way.How did feel when you found out that you were going home?
I don't want to say I was relieved, but I was done. I felt like I gave it the best effort that I could—I got on the show, I did it, and they just sent me home! I didn't come in backstabbing anybody. I didn't come here cheating anybody. I didn't come here cheating myself. I came here, did what I could have done for the challenges I was doing. I walked out of there honest, loyal, and okay.Why do you think they chose for Aja to stay over you?
I think the song matched Aja more than [me]. She's a dancer and knew the song; I didn't. Half the songs on the show are older than me. So it was a struggle for me to know the lyrics. Give me Nicki Minaj, give me Beyoncé, I'll slay it. But we didn't get that.Did they give you time to rehearse the song beforehand?
They do. But there was so much emotion and feeling running through me that day—it wasn't just the song that I was upset about, it was multiple things. When I have two minutes to shine, it's hard.What were some of those emotions?
I was really upset that while I stood there in an outfit that I sewed, created, and hand-made, I had Farrah Moan next to me with safety pins on her skirt, tucking it into her thong, then Aja on my left with an uneven jacket—it was like, what is going on? I thought this was a sewing challenge. I don't want to bring down the other girls, but if you're going to give me a sewing challenge, then let the sewing win.In this episode, out on the runway, you were talking to the judges about not wearing your hip pads or breastplate—can you explain a little more what you were trying to convey in that?
I was just explaining that in my drag, I've been wearing hip pads and a breastplate for the longest time. I'm a body queen, and there I was with no body. So for me to walk down the runway without them on was a lot. I'm coming out a completely different shape, and I was just letting the judges know that. I wasn't trying to blame myself or hide behind it. But I was completely glued down with my costume, ass out for the public to see, so it was a bit hard for me to do that. That wasn't my drag. That's not what I've been doing for so long.If you were to do the show again, would you do anything differently?
I would let my personality shine more. I don't think the bitch edit is the right way to describe me. I don't even think I was a bitch, I was just confident. I don't think "villain" is the right word either, because I didn't cut anybody's hair off or fight anybody. So I think just showing my personality, like, 'Oh she looks concerned, but she's actually dope, like she's nice and she's cool.'Follow Brian Moylan on Twitter.