Adore Delano reveals when she'd be ready to sweep Drag Race All Stars

Adore Delano is in her Charmeleon era.

Out's Raffy Ermac caught up with the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 and All Stars 2 competitor on the red carpet at the premiere of Paramount Pictures' new horror film Smile 2 and asked the starlet how life has been since she came out as a transgender woman in 2023.

"It's very metamorphosis right now," she says of her current era. "I'm trying to find my holographic Pokémon, Charizard vibes. I'm not holographic yet, but I'm very, like, Charmeleon. We're getting wheels under our skateboard and we're figuring things out. We're absorbing the beauty of everything and saying yes to things I'd normally be a hermit about. It's just throwing yourself at life and seeing whatever the hell sticks."

It has also been seven years since her short-lived appearance on All Stars 2, but she's still not tired of talking about her experience on the show – or her teenage stint on American Idol.

"That's part of my legacy," Delano reflects. "I had to really accept American Idol, the YouTube days, those are all part of my story. If I were writing a memoir right now, that would be a beautiful chapter. I learned how to work on camera, and not to break out in hives. American Idol taught me all of that, and so did Drag Race. Drag Race taught me how to stick to your guns and do s--t like this."

So is a return to All Stars still in the cards? Perhaps on season 25!

"If it's that long, I'll be ready to sweep those hoes," she laughs. "I really think I would. It was like 2016 when I did that. I wasn't ready. I'm getting there. When I get like Charizard Holographic, we'll get there, but right now I'm Charmeleon.

Smile 2 is now playing in theaters.