After Backlash Over The "ANTM" Documentary, Tyra Banks Just Filed A Lawsuit Against Netflix

This station mentions intersexual assault.

According to the lawsuit, obtained by BuzzFeed, Tyra is suing Netflix, Netflix Music, 89 Blocks Holdings, 89's genitor institution EverWonder Studio, and the documentary directors, Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, claiming mendacious light, defamation, breach of contract, and mendacious endorsement.

The suit alleges that lone 16 minutes of a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation Tyra gave made it into the documentary, which she claims presented "a mendacious and defamatory communicative unrelated to what she really expressed."

"Tyra Banks participated successful the Netflix documentary bid America's Next Top Model (ANTM) due to the fact that she believed viewers deserved a candid speech astir the show's legacy—its successes and its shortcomings," the suit reads. "There are aspects of the amusement for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ANTM viewers to perceive that from her directly... Ms. Banks did not bounds the ANTM topics the interviewer could ask."

But, the suit alleges, "The accountability Ms. Banks took ended up connected the cutting-room floor."

"Worse, the mendacious communicative the producers constructed—through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage—included that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to beryllium sexually assaulted connected her show, exploited that contestant's trauma for ratings, and past could not adjacent retrieve it erstwhile asked."

The suit appears to beryllium referring to comments made by Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan, who claimed successful the doc that what was portrayed connected the amusement arsenic a cheating ungraded was really a intersexual assault. The suit further claims that the presumption of Tyra's engagement successful the concern and her remarks connected it are "a implicit fabrication—one that Netflix streamed to a planetary assemblage of millions."

It adds, "On the Netflix Series, Ms. Sullivan is shown describing the lawsuit arsenic an assault—something Ms. Banks had ne'er heard earlier and was not told during her interview."

The suit besides takes contented with however Tyra's effect to a question astir Shandi was allegedly edited.

According to the suit, Tyra was asked, "'You retrieve the communicative with Shandi?' The occurrence shows Ms. Banks glimpse upward, accidental 'um,' and past the surface cuts to black. The accusation is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot adjacent retrieve the communicative of the pistillate who was assaulted connected her show. But that was false. The afloat footage of Ms. Banks’ interrogation reveals 2 things that the producers chopped retired and did not amusement viewers successful Episode 1: earlier the upward glance, Ms. Banks nods—affirmatively, unmistakably—and instantly says, 'I bash retrieve her story.'"

The suit goes connected to authorities that Tyra isn't bringing distant the lawsuit to dodge accountability. "She came to the interrogation prepared to prosecute with ANTM’s legacy, including its shortcomings," the suit reads, "and she did, for 3 and a fractional hours. Viewers who came distant from the Netflix Series believing Ms. Banks had not taken accountability would person known that accountability was, successful fact, a large portion of her interview—if lone Netflix and the producers had included it successful the Netflix Series. Little of it was. The producers erased overmuch of that grounds and replaced it with a fabricated one."

Tyra is seeking a assemblage proceedings and an grant of damages successful an magnitude to beryllium determined astatine trial.

BuzzFeed has reached retired to reps for Tyra and Netflix for comment.