Shangela Basically Pushed Lady Gaga Out Of The Way While Auditioning For Her Music Video

These first time stories belong in a book!

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Shangela Laquifa Wadley's might've started off as a newbie on RuPaul's Drag Race, but that didn't stop her from becoming reality TV royalty amongst millions of fans. And her reign doesn't stop there.

Check the receipts honey, Shangela's looking to takeover any and every screen she can get her hands on. Whether she's serving looks on Instagram, shining on TV series like 2 Broke Girls, Glee, or Bones, or, landing roles in box office hits like A Star is Born, Shangela is a force to be reckoned with.

So, we had a chat with Shangela to hear all about her "first times." Let's just say her answers will leave you begging for more.

Halleloo!

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First word that comes to mind when you hear "lip-sync for your life"?

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Shangela: Well, I can tell you the first feeling is to shudder! I would say the first word would be death drop, because that was the first time I ever death dropped on national television, on RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 3, when I was doing Cher's "Believe" lip-sync for your life.

I was in the bottom two and I didn't wanna go home! And honey, I said you know what, I DO BELIEVE!

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First thing you do when you wake up?

S: Hit the alarm and go back to sleep.

First time meeting Lady Gaga?

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S: The first time I met Lady Gaga was during the "Applause" music video filming. Lady Gaga, at the time, was working with my friend Perry Meek. Perry sent me this message, "Honey, The Lady, that's what we called Lady Gaga at the time, The Lady has requested that you and Courtney Act appear in a lyric video for the song 'Applause.'"

As I'm doing my performance, the cameraman is all on me. I just see the camera and this guy, and I'm just like, "Thank you, baby, but I'm trying to perform for Gaga." I took my hand and slightly shifted the cameraman to the left. Then I noticed that everyone in the audience has their cell phone out, filming the cameraman. And I'm like, "Ugh, hello? I'm on stage." So, I turned to look to see what everyone was looking at — GIRL, the cameraman was Lady Gaga! She was videoing the whole thing herself. So, I'm like, "Oh Lord, I'm never going to get a booking again!"

It worked out well and after I finished filming the video, she came upstairs to the dressing room and she was so, like...you wouldn't know that she was Lady Gaga, because she was so down-to-Earth and sweet! She was just super warm and personable. She was like, "Oh, I've been waiting to get back to the gay club. I'm so happy to be here. You know this is where I got my start." And she's in the mirror with the girls asking, "How do you get the liner to do like this?" She was just one of the girls. We had a great time with her. LOVE HER!

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First time meeting your sugar daddy?

S: I don't have a sugar daddy. I never had a sugar daddy. If I wanted a sugar daddy, yes, I could probably go out and get one, because I am what: SICKENING!

And I still ain't got no sugar daddy. I didn't say I didn't want one, just said I don't have one.

First time bombing on stage?

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S: Well sista, pick one. The biggest bomb on stage that I think I've ever had was when I was performing in New York at a club called Providence, that was open way back in the day. It was Halloween and I remember Snooki and JWoww were there hosting and I was doing a Halloween number. You know I'm now really a spooky fish, but I was like, "I'm gonna give it to 'em tonight." So I came out there in my black and I had my little mohawk, drew some liner stuff on the side of my face...you know, spooky. The music was going and I was like, "Oh, I'm going to give it to 'em on this part."

So, instead of doing a regular death drop — we all know Shangela knows the death drop, okay. I taught it to the kids on Dance Moms, halleloo. Many chiropractors can thank me for years of work — I decided to do a leaping helicopter death drop. While I was in midair, my leg hit a prop coming down, so I released it early. So, instead of doing a regular death drop, I landed on the leg, honey, and snapped the tibia and the fibula bone in the right leg on stage. I tried to get back up, girl, I couldn't move. It was Providence, so they didn't have a back exit, so they rolled me through the dance floor and out the front door.

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First choice for RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Season 4 winner?

S: Shangela! Halleloo.

First time meeting RuPaul?

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S: Everyone will probably think it was at RuPaul's Drag Race, but it was not. The first time I met RuPaul was at a Christmas party that Jenifer Lewis was having at her house. Now, I thought I was a guest, but I was actually there parking cars. This is true, you know, because I live in Jenifer Lewis's basement. She was like, "Baby, when the people come tonight, just take the key honey, and put the car somewhere on the street. Don't let them walk. Loretta Devine's out there, don't let Loretta walk."

I meant to park one car, but then more cars started pulling out, getting out, and just handing me their keys. RuPaul pulls up and she had this beautiful, red...I don't know if it's a convertible or not, but it's little — and then here comes RuPaul, who's not little, out of this car. She was just so tall and statuesque. Little gay me was like, "Ahh, angel. God. RuPaul!" She was like, "Hello." Bitch, she handed me those keys and kept on walking. But at the end of the night, RuPaul needed those keys back and in order to get them, I said, "Can I get a picture first?" And he was like, "Of course. Yes, of course." And we took that photo right outside on the sidewalk, honey. Halleloo!

If you haven't already, be sure to catch Shangela in A Star is Born, in theaters now.