Shea Coulee chatted about her ‘All Stars 5’ experience in super fun and surprising interview with HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY!
All hail queen Shea Coulee! The Chicago-based stunner stormed through the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 5 competition and was crowned its winner over Jujubee and Miz Cracker in the final episode that aired Friday, July 24. It was a triumphant victory for her after her devastating loss in season 9 to eventual winner Sasha Velour during a season where she was widely considered to be the front runner.
It’s a sky’s the limit kind of thing for her now that she has that coveted crown that only a handful of other queens have won. She spoke with HL about a lot of things that happened on the show including who she thought her biggest competition was, her favorite runway lewk, how the super sexy Ricky Martin smelled and more!
Shea Coulee stunning in pink. Credit: Dan Polyak
Congrats on the win! The past couple of days must have be amazing for you.
Yes they’ve been wild to say the least!
I want to take this back all the way to the first episode. Who did you think was your biggest competition was when you saw all the other queens?
Jujubee. It’s hard to put into words how much I love her. Even prior to All Stars 5 and then like now after its all said and done Jujubee has been a good sister of mine. So when I saw her walk into the werk room I was like, “OK. I know what she is capable of and she is absolutely fierce. She has the charisma, uniqueness nerve and talent and could definitely be here in the end.”
You did very, very well on AS5 to the point where you were only in jeopardy of going home once early on. Was there a moment during the season that you were like, “I got this”, or were you a ball of nerves from beginning to end?
Minus that hiccup on episode 3, besides that, I was like “I got this”, because you have to believe in yourself. I gave it my one hundred and ten percent every day on set and when we got to the final 3 with the group number and the lip sync I was like, “I’m in my element. I can’t slip up. I just have to give it my all.”
It seemed like there were some very obvious lip sync assassins that weren’t there this season. Who were you surprised to not see?
Yeah. I would say Trinity K. Bonet, Dida Ritz, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Kameron Michaels were all girls I was expecting to see.
Did you have a favorite lip sync yourself that you were either in or witnessed?
Oooh that is so tough! I would have to say my favorite,
