Sapphira Cristál knew she would be a finalist fighting for the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 crown . Shortly after the season finale, she told Blavity’s Shadow and Act that it feels great to see her vision for herself come true. “It feels amazing. … We all fought so hard to be here and I saw myself there from the beginning,” she said. “I saw myself there from before I even was cast. So it felt great to be in a place that I saw myself, [in] the way that I saw myself there.” Cristál said that her confidence in herself and her drag comes from her experience within the art form. This experience is what a lot of fans saw and gravitated toward, and so many viewers felt like she was the one to beat right from her first Werkroom entrance. “I’ve been doing drag for about 15 years. And if you don’t know who you are after doing drag or doing something for that long, it might be time to choose something different,” she said. “So I really felt very confident in what I had to bring. And I’m just...