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Kelly Cutrone tells EW that Tyra Banks and Ken Mok called her immediately after Miss J. Alexander’s 2022 stroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The ex-ANTM<\/em> judge says Banks and Mok, who were in California at the time, asked New York-based Cutrone to check on Miss J. in their absence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Cutrone provides EW with screenshots of reported text correspondence with Mok from December 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n After longtime America’s Next Top Model<\/em><\/a> star and runway diva extraordinaire Miss J. Alexander said earlier this year that ANTM<\/em> head judge<\/a> and host Tyra Banks<\/a> didn’t visit him in the hospital after a December 2022 stroke left him paralyzed, fellow show alum and powerhouse publicist Kelly Cutrone<\/a> is hitting back at negative characterizations of Banks in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n Cutrone, who served on the ANTM<\/em> panel for cycles 18-22, tells EW that Banks and producer Ken Mok immediately asked her to check on Miss J. shortly after hearing that he’d suffered a medical emergency in New York, all while Banks and Mok were on the West Coast.<\/p>\n “They were worried,” Cutrone recalls, providing EW with screenshots of a text she says is from Mok, dated Dec. 30, 2022 \u2014 three days after Miss J.’s Dec. 27, 2022 stroke.<\/p>\n “Hey Kelly…. Did you hear about Jay Alexander?” a person saved in Cutrone’s phone as “Ken” texted her at the time, per screenshots Cutrone sent to EW. Roughly three hours later, the text shows Cutrone responding that she had “someone going to [Miss J.’s] apartment” \u2014 a person Cutrone identifies to EW on the phone as a mutual friend named Arton.<\/p>\n