- America’s Next Top Model contestant Alexandra Underwood reflected on falling during an extreme runway challenge that included swinging pendulums.
- The moment from cycle 14 was featured in Netflix’s Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model docuseries.
- The model says the moment left her injured and “mortified.’
Social media has been buzzing since the release of Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, but not for the better—the three-part Netflix docuseries sees several of the former judges and contestants reflecting on the dangerous challenges the contestants were put through for viewer’s entertainment.
In the time since, several women from the show have come forward with their stories, including cycle 14’s Alexandra Underwood, who fell off of the runway and injured her knees during a challenge.
Before even encountering the runway’s swinging pendulums, Alexandra had already fell while walking down the stairs to the runway. “I was in that ridiculously tight dress in those super high heels, going down stairs,” she recalled in a February 21 interview with Entertainment Weekly. “I was already shaken up going into the runway with the pendulum, so I was completely already shaken up and worried about getting axed.”
The docuseries included footage Whoopi Goldberg laughing at Alexandra’s runway tumble during a 2010 episode of The View. Whoopi issued an apology to Alexandra on a recent episode of The View this past week, saying, “I just wanted her to know that I wasn’t laughing [at her], I was laughing because to me people slipping and falling [is funny].”
“I don’t feel like she needed to apologize. I remember laughing at Whoopi laughing at me. Her reaction gave me permission to laugh at it, too,” the model told Entertainment Weekly. “She gave me permission to laugh and find it funny, because to me, it wasn’t … in the midst of it, I was mortified. It was inappropriate for the show to put me in that position. I was on ANTM, not American Gladiator.”
As for how Alexandra feels about the experience, she explained that appearing on America’s Next Top Model allowed her to get “a great behind-the-scenes look at a big-budget production, and I found it very fun,” but “some of the other girls absolutely deserve an apology for what they were put through.”
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