By 18, she began performing at amateur nights at Station 4. Elliott remembers feeling as though she didn’t fit in with other queens.
“I had a crunchy Halloween wig and I wore old dance costumes,” Elliott With 2 Ts says, “so I just really thought that my dancing was going to get me through. But I started to realize there's so much more that goes into this. I unfortunately had to figure out everything myself because I really didn't have a drag mom or drag family or anything.
"It was kind of difficult for me at first, but it just took a couple of people reaching out to me that weren't even drag queens that really started to get me together and really started to show me my potential.”