'Canada's Drag Race' Season 4: Kitten Kaboodle, Aimee Yonce Shennel eliminated in lip sync Slay-Off

Season 4 of Canada's Drag Race saw its first-ever "Slay-Off" lip sync tournament in Thursday's episode, with the unfortunate loss of Aimee Yonce Shennel and Kitten Kaboodle, while Nearah Nuff was the ultimate challenge winner.

"I didn't realize there were so many people that were upset that I was gone," Kitten told Yahoo Canada on Friday. "I feel really good about my experience on Drag Race, so no complaints here."

"I mean, a little sad that I'm not still on there, because it's such a fabulous experience."

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"It is a little bit said because we all want to be there, we all want to win the $100,000," Aimee added. "I feel we did great TV and I'm so proud of myself."

'That was her opportunity...to send me home'

A significant part of the Slay-Off episode was a little rematch between Aimee and Nearah Nuff.

"I wasn't expecting to lip sync against her, but we didn't know who was going to be the name ... to be called," Aimee recalled. "When they called Nearah, I knew she was coming for me, even though she was saying, 'choices, choices, choices.'"

"I [knew] I would be her first choice, because in the design challenge she's trying to send me home, and it didn't work because they kept me. That was her opportunity to put me on the bottom and then send me home."

'Herstory' making queen Kitten Kaboodle

While Kitten's lip sync couldn't outshine Melinda Verga, the 57-year-old from Toronto will go down in Drag Race history (or "herstory" in the Drag Race universe) as the oldest competitor to be on the franchise.

"I was very, very proud to represent an older generation of drag queens," Kitten shared. "There are so many amazing queens that have come before us and older queens that are around still, and I hope in my small way that I gave them a little bit of a voice, and did my best to represent them."

"Let's not forget them. Just because you're older does not mean you're not relevant and does not mean you're not active. We might be in the third phase, or the fourth phase, of our life, and there's so much more to come and so much more to learn from older queens as well."

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In terms of advice Kitten would give to queens who want to be on Drag Race in the future, she stressed to not let your inner voice "sabotage" you.

"I have to say that it was very difficult being away from my partner, Jim, because he's my support," Kitten said. "So whenever I go through those little things where I have self-doubts and those negative voices, what I did is, I imagined Jim there telling me, 'Honey, you always do it. You always succeed and do what you want to do. You will do it again this time, it's never going to be any different.'"

"It's a huge goal to be on Drag Race, it's huge goal to win, but the nice thing about being a little older, you start to realize that it's always good to have those goals, but the happiness comes from the actual journey to meet those goals. So the happiness comes from doing something you love to do, and cherishing those moments. So for me, I'm so happy doing it all."

Thinking back to her experience in the competition, Ottawa-based Aimee highlighted that Drag Race is a "long" and "stressful" process, but it's important to not "pretend to be somebody else."

"What they are looking to see is you, they want to see your personality, they want to see you having fun, they want to see your creativity," Aimee said. "It is easy to watch it from home and 'blah, blah, blah, blah,' and go to Instagram ... and comment, but to be part of the show is not easy."

It's not over for Aimee Yonce Shennel and Kitten Kaboodle

For all the fans sad that they won't be spending more time with Kitten and Aimee on Drag Race, the two queens have lots of plans for the future.

"I just signed with an agent, I would love to do more TV work, I had such a great experience," Kitten said. "I really loved the whole process and just seeing what goes on, and what goes into making a television show."

"Maybe some more improv work and lean into some comedy, and I'd love to be on Traitors. I never watched it until [Miss Fiercalicious] was on the Canadian one. ... I'd love to actually work with other older queens. I'd be excited to do work with some of the older queens from the U.S. and the U.K., and Down Under."

"We never know, maybe I can get a call for All Stars, Canada vs. The World," Aimee said. "I don't think this is the end for Aimee."

"For 2024, I'm planning a lot of stuff. I'm planning to go on a tour in May. ... We're going to start in Ontario to see how things go, because I really want to meet the fans. I'm not a social media queen. Being on social media and doing TikTok and all of that, I'm old for that. ... What I really like is to perform, to connect with people, to do my numbers and be emotional, and do the meet and greets, and all of that."