Luxx reveals unaired, tear-filled Drag Race moment with RuPaul: ‘I get very emotional’

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Luxx Noir London tells EW her sweet exchange with RuPaul on the Main Stage “went on for a lot longer” than we saw on TV as they discussed her 1986 tribute look on the runway.

RuPaul cries at Luxx Noir London's tribute look on RuPaul's Drag Race

When asked to clarify what she meant about connecting her own journey in drag to RuPaul’s experience in Manhattan, Luxx declines to elaborate, but suggests that RuPaul “met some people who ended up changing her life in ways that she didn’t even imagine could happen,” with reference to the Wee Wee Pole performance she referenced on the episode.

“And then was born RuPaul, Supermodel of the World, and current mother of Luxx Noir London. That night changed her life and I felt like in that moment, the story she told me and having that moment with her was my RuPaul-in-the-shoulder-pads moment,” Luxx says. “I think about that moment a lot and I get chills sometimes that it even happened. I get very emotional. It’s a moment in my life that I will cherish forever.”

While the moment made an emotional impact on Drag Race, Luxx also notes that it wasn’t her “first concept” on the runway. She worked with another designer on a different look for the Rip Her to Shreds category, though that person backed out of their collaboration with about 48 hours left to go before Luxx departed to film season 15.

That, she remembers, set her on a mission across the state of New Jersey to find elements to incorporate into the look.

“Me and my boyfriend called every sporting goods store in the state of New Jersey, and only one had a pair of adult football shoulder pads,” she says, adding that she asked them to put the item on hold before she could pick it up, and “finished the rest of the look in one night” in her hotel room once arriving to the Drag Race set.

Fans — and other queens — have since pointed out that Luxx wisely incorporated RuPaul looks into her runway package, but, for now, she’s only willing to admit that one look in her suitcase was a strategic placement: her Night of 1,000 Beyoncés dress.