Plus, she spills the beans on that time she met Oprah and President Obama in the same weekend.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season 8 finale ofThe Masked Singer.
The eighth season ofThe Masked Singerhas finally reached its end.
Harp performs on season 8 of ‘The Masked Singer’.Michael Becker / FOX
Each finalist was tasked with two performances apiece.
Then, it was the champ’s turn to be unmasked.
Yes, Harp was none other than Grammy-nominated, Laurence Olivier and SAG Award-winning actress and singer Amber Riley.
Amber Riley.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congratulations on winningThe Masked Singer.How do you plan to celebrate?
AMBER RILEY:Thank you.
I mean I already celebrated since it was so long ago.
Right, on the show you said only your mom knew.
Honestly, I didn’t really think about it, because I couldn’t tell anyone for so long.
[Laughs] I mean, I guess I could!
But no, I don’t have any plans.
I’m just excited because my family watches the show.
For the most part, even though I haven’t told them, they know it’s me.
Nicole Scherzinger guessed you very early on.
Where did you fall on that spectrum?
I fully knew that Nicole was going to know.
I was kind of anticipating that.
kindly tell me all about that.
Well Oprah is such a pro.
So we’re backstage getting ready and we were actually singing onOprahalso.
And I’ve been watching her since I was a kid.
And not just my mom, she was like, “Hi, Amber.”
And I was like, shocked that she knew my name.
And then she turned to my mom, and was like, “Hey, Tiny.”
And I’m just like, “WHAT?
How did you know my mom’s name?!”
Like, we’re a really big cast.
We weren’t a small cast.
And we all brought our parents and she knew all of their parents' names also.
I know that’s a memory that me and my mother will share for the rest of our lives.
Because like, yo, Oprah knows who we are.
Yeah, that’s something I think I’d put on my tombstone.
Yeah, “Oprah knows my name.”
Like in one weekend, we met two of our first Black presidents, Oprah and Obama.
[Laughs]
That’s wild.
I’m not sure I would have survived that.
I thought for sure that the plane was going to crash on the way home.
I was like, “What else could I do in life, at this point?”
Because I am a performer, I use my whole body to perform.
But I was kind of encouraged to know my voice kind of speaks for itself.
And that’s not something that I would have been able to discover had I not done the show.
So that was a pretty cool thing for me.
As you probably know, we’re bigDrag Racefans here at EW…
As am I!
Now that you’ve doneTheMaskedSinger, how do you feel about that?
Oh, drag is something that I admire.
I literally just went to a drag brunch yesterday.
I admire it so much, but I do not think that she will be seeing me on there.
It was like so much work.
I don’t think I can even sit there that long to get my hair and makeup done.
I can barely do it on a regular level, but on a drag level?
I don’t know.
I don’t know about that one.
What did that experience mean to you?
So I did have the opportunity to be a part of this amazing documentary calledThe Black Beauty Effect.
It’s an amazing story.
It’s a tearjerker.
It makes you feel like it’s possible for you to start your own beauty brand after watching it.
