Sounds Like Tyra Banks Regrets That ANTM Docuseries

Key Points:

• Tyra Banks has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy, and EverWonder Studio over the docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, alleging deceptive editing of her interview to present a false narrative.
• Banks claims the producers selectively edited her three-and-a-half-hour interview down to about 16 minutes, omitting her taking responsibility for controversial moments and manipulating footage to suggest she allowed contestant Shandi Sullivan to be sexually assaulted on the show.
• The lawsuit centers on the 2004 incident involving Sullivan, who was shown intoxicated and having sex during filming; Sullivan now describes the encounter as non-consensual due to her intoxication, a perspective Banks says she was not informed of and was thus unprepared to address.
• Banks also objects to the docuseries’ editing choices, including a cliffhanger ending implying she could not recall the incident, and alleges she was denied access to unedited footage and the chance to review the final product before release.
• In addition to defamation, Banks is suing for breach of contract and false endorsement, seeking unspecified damages to be decided by a jury trial; Netflix and the other defendants have not yet commented.