"What The F*ck": This Is The Most Horrifying Moment From The New "ANTM" Netflix Doc, And It's NOT Okay

Content warning: this station covers intersexual assault.

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is simply a caller three-part docuseries connected Netflix that explores what happened down the scenes of Tyra Banks's world TV juggernaut.

The documentary unravels a batch of disturbing details astir the show, but the astir horrifying incidental covered is what happened to Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan.

Shandi was conscionable 21 years aged and moving astatine Walgreens erstwhile she entered the amusement connected the encouragement of her semipermanent boyfriend, Eric. She was doing good successful the competition, but a travel to Milan saw her go the halfway of a "controversy".

On ANTM, the communicative portrayed immoderate antheral models visiting the contestants wherever they were staying successful Milan, and Shandi drunkenly hooked up with 1 of the men successful the blistery tub and past successful bed. The amusement follows Shandi arsenic she wakes up the adjacent day, horrified, and calls her fellow sobbing astir having cheated connected him. The absorption was precise overmuch connected Shandi having done a "terrible" thing.

But successful Reality Check, Shandi shares her broadside and details what truly happened, and it's harrowing.

Shandi says that day, they'd had a agelong time filming "go-sees," and idiosyncratic successful accumulation suggested that the antheral models they'd met travel implicit for dinner.

"I don’t deliberation I’d eaten thing astatine each oregon had immoderate sleep," Shandi says. "I retrieve getting successful the blistery tub... And past I conscionable retrieve the feline looking astatine me, and I looked astatine him, and I was beauteous drunk astatine that point."

"Everything benignant of aft that is conscionable a blur. All I retrieve is...him connected apical of me. I was blacked out. No 1 did thing to halt it. And it each got filmed. All of it. Every infinitesimal of it. "

"I didn’t adjacent consciousness enactment happening, I conscionable knew it was happening and past I passed out. The adjacent time I woke up and was like, 'Holy shit, what the fuck happened past night? Fuck.' It each fucking deed me. It conscionable flooded implicit me. And I conscionable sat determination and cried."

To marque matters worse, Shandi says accumulation made it hard for her to leave. "I kept demanding, 'I privation spell home. I don’t privation to beryllium portion of this anymore,'" Shandi says successful Reality Check. "And I demanded to speech to Eric, but they wouldn’t springiness maine a phone. And that’s erstwhile I truly wanted to spell home. They tried to speech maine retired of it, and I was like, 'no,' and they’re like, 'well, present we tin get you a phone...we're gonna person to movie it.'"

Shandi says having the telephone telephone with Eric filmed, and past besides having to person a speech connected camera with the antheral exemplary involved, successful which she had to inquire him if helium had utilized protection, compounded the trauma of it all.

But it gets adjacent worse: Tyra aboriginal had Shandi connected her speech show, The Tyra Banks Show, and she aired the footage of the ANTM incidental successful an effort to get Shandi to ticker and respond to it, adjacent though, according to Shandi, she had conscionable told Tyra she'd ne'er watched it and ne'er wanted to.

Shandi shares that she and Eric tried to support their narration aft her clip connected ANTM, but it was difficult, particularly erstwhile radical would admit her connected the thoroughfare and beryllium nasty. "I’d beryllium walking with Eric down the street, and somebody’d recognise maine and telephone maine a slut to my face. Or a cheating whore. Eric lasting close adjacent to me...it made maine hatred myself."

"After the show, I felt truly broken," Shandi says.

The documentary squad asks Tyra astir what happened to Shandi, and astatine archetypal she appears to beryllium struggling to recall, but past she says, "I retrieve her," and adds, "It’s a small hard to speech astir accumulation due to the fact that I’m…that’s not my territory."

"I’m not caput of story, that’s Ken Mok," Tyra adds. "But I did go a maestro editor. It’s important for radical to cognize that we didn’t enactment everything connected TV."

Ken Mok — who was the enforcement shaper of ANTM — is besides asked astir what happened to Shandi, and helium says, "We treated Top Model arsenic a documentary. And we told the girls that. ... 'There’s gonna beryllium cameras with you 24/7, time successful and time out, and they’re going to screen everything — the good, the bad, and everything successful between. No substance what happens portion you’re connected camera, we’re going to papers each of that.'"

"I volition archer you this. When I went into station and saw the footage, we scaled backmost that country successful a important way," helium adds. "That was, for bully oregon bad, 1 of the astir memorable moments successful Top Model."

What happened to Shandi has stirred beardown reactions among viewers, with galore calling retired Tyra, Ken, and the full accumulation not conscionable for what happened astatine the time, but besides for avoiding accountability now...

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is present streaming connected Netflix.

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