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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Winner Nymphia Wind Is Still ‘Dead Inside’ After Making History

'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 16 star Nymphia Wind talks about her history-making win, her finale lip sync and more.

The fashionable, yellow-loving queen triumphed over her sister Sapphira Cristál in the final lip sync, dressing herself up as a massive cup of bubble tea and delivering a series of iconic outfit reveals to earn the competition’s coveted prize. Below, Nymphia chats with Billboard following her victory, breaking down her excellent showing throughout the season, her love of bananas, her reaction to the President of Taiwan congratulating her, and how she created her memorable finale lip sync. There was a running theory on the show amongst your competitors, where they were convinced that every time you complained about being stressed heading into a challenge, you were never actually concerned and were really just playing mind games with them.

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