RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18 star dismisses claims she’s been disqualified from season
One of the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18 was rumoured to have been disqualified. (World of Wonder)
One of the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 was rumoured to have been disqualified. (World of Wonder)
Discord Addams, one of the recently announced queens competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18, has rubbished claims that she has been disqualified from the competition.
The 35-year-old, Florida-based performer is one of 14 queens vying for the title of ‘America’s Next Drag Superstar’ on season 18, and according to her promotional statement, she is a “punk rock maximalist” who is “ready to bring the chaos”.
According to persisting fan rumours though, she maybe brought a little too much chaos during filming, and ended up getting disqualified.
Earlier this year, the rumour mill began spinning as to who would be on the season 18 cast, with Discord’s name cropping up as one of the potential contestants. Yet at some point during filming, rumours began swirling that she had been kicked out of the competition due to an on set altercation and alleged problematic behaviour before her time on the show.
The rumours stuck, after an apparent post by Drag Race winner Shea Couleé from 2020 resurfaced, in which she allegedly told her followers that it was “on sight” if she saw Discord in person. The post can no longer be found on X, formerly Twitter.
When the Drag Race season 18 cast dropped on 5 December, fans were surprised to see the apparent purveyor of chaos Discord Addams on the list.
Now, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the performer has dismissed the rumours as completely false, and shared the truth on where she stands with Shea Couleé.
During the chat, interviewer Joey Nolfi asked Discord about her time spent in Chicago – Shea’s hometown – with the drag star making an unsavoury face and lamenting the city’s poor weather.
“I’m convinced that the lack of sun there does something to people’s brains,” she said, before being asked whether Shea’s post on X was real.
“Hard to say,” Discord said, adding “let’s get to the bottom of it”.
Asked whether “anything happened” between her and Shea, Discord coyly responded: “Not really… [it was] kind of just fun and then the internet took it as I’m this awful human being who deserves to be dead.”
Addressing her alleged disqualification, she continued: “There’s a rumor going around right now that I’m disqualified from this season. Like, we’re not even having this conversation right now. I’m not even here.
“I’m fully disqualified,” she joked, before sharing a faux series of events.
“Here’s what happened. RuPaul found that tweet from Shea, realised that I’m a awful, terrible racist, and then disqualified me from the season. And I’m edited out.”
She then dismissed the rumour as “not true,” before sharing details on the fan rumour about an on set altercation with another queen.
“There’s a rumour I got in a fist fight over an eyelash curler. There’s a rumour that RuPaul disqualified me… there’s so many fun ones happening right now, and I think it all stemmed from that tweet.”
Discord also confirmed that she is “friends” with Shea Couleé, and added that she doesn’t even know if the post on X was real or not.
Alongside Discord Addams, season 18 features a wild line-up of queens, including two members of season 16 star Morphine Love Dion’s drag family, and the sister of All Stars 10 queens Bosco and Irene The Alien. The full cast list can be seen now.
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18 starts on 2 January 2026, with the 14 queens tasked in episode one with creating signature looks from discarded Drag Race materials.
Season 18 will air on MTV in the US and WOW Presents Plus internationally.
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