Tyra Banks
Netflix Defamed Me with ‘ANTM’ Doc!
Revealed
Tyra Banks ain’t simply serving appears … she simply filed a defamation lawsuit towards Netflix following her participation of their “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” docuseries.
The authorized docs, filed Saturday and obtained by TMZ, allege Netflix solely used 16 minutes from her over 3-hour interview with them and manipulated it “to support a false and defamatory narrative.”
The lawsuit accuses producers of setting up a false narrative about Tyra by way of “selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage — including that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant’s trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked.”
ICYMI, Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan accused the “America’s Next Top Model” manufacturing workforce of failing to guard her from a sexual assault by a visitor on the present, after which ignoring the assault and molding it right into a humiliating infidelity storyline. Through the doc, Tyra mentioned she remembered Shandi’s storyline however defined, “It’s a little difficult for me to talk about production because that’s not my territory.”
However within the lawsuit, Tyra argues she had no concept Shandi was collaborating within the docuseries and that she labeled her expertise as a sexual assault. The lawsuit slams, “The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show.”
TMZ has reached out to Netflix for remark … thus far, no phrase again.
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