Willow Pill, a drag queen from Denver, already has one major Drag Race connection: her drag sister, Yvie Oddly, won season 11! In an interview with The Plaid Zebra, Willow acknowledged the challenges of breaking into the drag world, but how much drag has helped her over the years.
"It honestly makes me feel like the happiest person," she said. "Every performance I have I think about my [younger] self and think about how terrified I was all the time, constantly everyday, and how that is over now."
Willow also explained to Entertainment Weekly how her experiences with chronic illness (she was diagnosed with cystinosis, a disease that causes problems with different parts of her body, including the kidneys, at a young age). "We don't talk about what it means to be chronically ill and grieve your life as it's happening," she said. "That's a sacred place of my heart that I shared on the show, that I don't always share. It's not as much for me about awareness as it is I hope the other fans and queens and queer people who are chronically ill or experiencing disabilities in their life can see something that makes them feel seen."