{"id":2286105,"date":"2026-02-17T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286105"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:36:21","slug":"tyra-banks-finally-explained-what-she-was-thinking-during-the-antm-we-were-all-rooting-for-you-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tyra-banks-finally-explained-what-she-was-thinking-during-the-antm-we-were-all-rooting-for-you-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks FINALLY Explained What She Was Thinking During The “ANTM” “We Were All Rooting For You” Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Regardless of how much America’s Next Top Model<\/i><\/a> you watched back in the day: If you’ve been online any time in the last decade, this image of Tyra Banks<\/a> is something you can literally hear<\/i> just by looking at it.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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The moment it’s taken from, of course, is from Cycle 4 of the legendary reality TV show<\/a> \u2014 specifically, when Tyra decided to send home two<\/i> contestants, Rebecca Epley and Tiffany Richardson, before laying into the latter contestant with a rant that instantly entered pop culture<\/a> history.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\u201cI have never in my life yelled at a girl like this,\u201d Tyra exclaimed after telling Tiffany that she was “extremely disappointed” in her. \u201cWhen my mother yells like this, it\u2019s because she loves me. I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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The scene is so<\/i> iconic that the trailer for Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model<\/i> \u2014 Netflix’s just-released docuseries focusing on the alleged inner workings of ANTM \u2014<\/i> literally leads with the moment in question. And even though Tyra had previously decided not to publicly address what was going on at the time (her reps didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment in 2017, for a BuzzFeed News profile of Tiffany<\/a>), she astoundingly broke her silence for the doc.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\u201cTiffany, that girl, that girl was my heart,” Tyra said. “She didn\u2019t make it the first year because she got into a fight in a bar. But we mentored her off camera and said, \u2018We feel like this show is gonna be amazing for you, let\u2019s get you the help you need.\u2019 When I see this beautiful girl who made some mistakes in the season before and didn\u2019t make it and then we worked with her to get her here, and then to see her kind of giving up, I just\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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ANTM<\/i> judge Jay Manuel referred to the moment as the \u201cmost difficult moment on set I had ever experienced,\u201d and claimed that \u201cproduction staff literally just took Tyra off set” after shooting had commenced. \u201cSome of the things that were said were not well-intentioned. I will probably never repeat the lines that were actually said in the room that day.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\u201cIt was very scary,” fellow judge J. Alexnader added. “It was like she went off, and Tyra never went off. Tyra must have really [seen] herself in that girl.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\u201cYou know, I lost it,” Tyra went on to say, claiming that the specific moment of her outburst “was probably bigger than” Tiffany herself.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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“It was family, friends, society, Black girls, all the challenges that we have. So many people saying that we\u2019re not good enough. I think all that was in that moment.”<\/span><\/h2>\n
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“That\u2019s some Black girl stuff that goes real deep inside of me, but I knew I went too far,” she concluded.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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OK then. Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model<\/i> is on Netflix right now<\/a> if you want to see more \u2014 and, let’s face it, you definitely do.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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