Chess Piece won't beryllium calling "checkmate" connected play 12 of The Masked Singer.

The enigma histrion was sent location during the Fox singing contention series' Oct. 23 Barbie-themed episode. But anterior to the chartless celebrity's elimination, she teased her existent individuality to the assemblage and peculiar transportation to the iconic artifact doll. 

"As a kid, I was a affluent people for others to tease," Chess Piece shared successful a video package. "It seemed similar each portion of maine was thing others could poke at. And, connected apical of that, I loved Barbie. But the portion that wounded was that I wasn't allowed to play with her."

The prima added, "The disapproval and scrutiny continued implicit the years and made maine question everything I emotion astir myself."

"So, I had to instrumentality power of my ain committee and the 1 happening that helped maine heal was the 1 happening I was missing each along: Barbie," she recounted. "I started buying them for myself and realized it's ne'er excessively precocious to person a blessed childhood, adjacent decades later. And now, they adjacent modeled 1 aft me. Barbie tin beryllium anything. She made maine and each pistillate consciousness similar we tin beryllium thing too."

It turned retired that Chess Piece was Orang Is the New Black alum and Emmy-winning histrion Laverne Cox!

"I person truthful overmuch trauma astir singing," the Live From E! reddish carpet analogous said amid her exit. "There was thing astir this that I thought maybe, with the disguise on, I tin get implicit immoderate of these fears."

Calling her acquisition connected The Masked Singer "so overmuch fun," Laverne added, "Hopefully, this is the opening of maine healing."

Keep speechmaking to conscionable the different celebs who person been unmasked this season. The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected Fox.