Jaremi, the artist formerly known as Phi Phi O'Hara, is here to make it clear that there was no such thing as a "face crack" in the legendary legend fifth episode of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 2, titled "Revenge of the Queens," which featured the eliminated contestants returning for a chance to get their Ru-Venge. The clarification comes right on time as All Stars 2 — widely considered by fans as the best Drag Race season of all time — reaches its 10-year anniversary in August. (Yeah, you read that right, sis. Feel old yet?)
After the airing of All Stars 2, Jaremi announced that he'd step away from doing drag as a primary occupation and successfully disengaged from the Drag Race fandom overall. Understandably, things changed a bit with the passing of Jiggly Caliente in April 2025 given that Jiggly was a dear season 4 sister to Jaremi. Despite what the reunion special might have you believe, the two of them remained friends after the sugar walls of reality TV came down. It's also been a full decade since All Stars 2 aired, so it stands to reason that Jaremi can now engage (albeit still rarely) with fans here and there without things getting too crazy.
To that end, Jaremi shared a cheeky response to yet another viral video of the so-called "face crack" moment of Phi Phi O'Hara seeing the eliminated queens of All Stars 2 showing up on the other side of the werk room mirror. "Can't believe it's been 10 years since the face crack of the century on All Stars 2," the original poster wrote on X.
Jaremi replied, "The way ppl STILL believe it was a face crack, when the lead up behind the scenes was me telling them I bet you they are bringing ppl back because we were waiting to be on camera for over an hour between stage and this moment."
Wait, what? Category is… "Y'all wanted a twist, eh?!"
"You were so over the mind games…" a fan noted. "Made ICONIC TV, though."
Jaremi wrote back, "Literally OVER it, it was the moment I said fuck it im done with this show, the blatant favortism and the manipulation."
"It was so iconic and still lives to this day tho," another Drag Race fan chimed in. "I remember being like God I hope they read each other for filth, and y'all lowkey did." Attached to that X post is an instantly iconic shot of Tyra Banks in Netflix's newly-released docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.
However, Jaremi elucidated his point yet again: that the edit did not capture his perspective of what actually happened in the werk room, noting that other queens from All Stars 2 have also gone on record to say the same thing over the past 10 years.
"I didnt read them, I repeated with the judges said," Jaremi clarified. "It was strategically done that way to show the hypocrisy of how others can say the same thing and not get the treatment I did. To this day people like Detox and others have shared how I simply repeated what the judges critiqued and was ripped for it."
Since retiring the Phi Phi O'Hara stage name and no longer working as an active drag performer, Jaremi has completely reinvented himself as web streamer and content creator.
As of this writing, he has nearly 25,000 followers on Twitch and maintains an impressive audience of 370,000 followers on Instagram and 120,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter).
Last October, Jaremi celebrated turning 40 with an emotional post reflecting on the losses, the love, and the life he's experienced over the past 10 years, noting that he "didn't think I would ever make it past my 30s." He also wrote about being excited and looking forward to navigating his 40s.
It will always be a challenge for Jaremi — and every single other queen in the All Stars 2 cast — to escape the reality TV excellence that queer fans around the world experienced when watching (and re-watching) that season. With that said, it's lovely to see him being able to interact with fans when he chooses to do so, with clear boundaries that limit fans from getting too shady or going too far, and also having some healthy sense of humor about the whole thing.
Now that's what we call a glow-up.
