The Wrap<\/a> earlier this year, \u2018Reality Check\u2019 director Mor Loushy said the docuseries would have happened with or without participation from Banks.<\/p>\n\u201cThis documentary was happening, regardless if she was giving an interview or not, and she decided she did want to share her side of the story,\u201d Loushy said. \u201cI\u2019m very happy that she did, because it gave the opportunity to really go deep into the debates, into the start of the idea, and not by a third person but from Tyra herself, to really hear the journey that she\u2019s been through.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the more controversial moments of the docuseries occurs when contestant Shandi Sullivan had to relive her alleged sexual assault during the show\u2019s second cycle. She accused the show\u2019s production team of framing the incident as a cheating scandal rather than a sexual assault that occurred on set.<\/p>\n
In the lawsuit, Banks says she was unaware Sullivan had classified her encounter in Italy with a man who visited their house as sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cBut that was false. The full footage of Ms. Banks\u2019 interview reveals two things that the producers cut out and did not show viewers in Episode 1: before the upward glance, Ms. Banks nods\u2014affirmatively, unmistakably\u2014and immediately says, \u2018I do remember her story.\u2019 By carving the nod out of the middle of the sequence and cutting off Ms. Banks\u2019 comment at the end, the producers ensured that viewers would see only the lie and not the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banks is seeking \u201cdamages, including loss of future business opportunities, loss of business income, other compounding losses as will be shown at trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
More must-reads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Reality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model\u2019 became a topic of heavy discussion earlier this year regarding Banks\u2019 relationship with the Jays, how she handled an alleged sexual assault on set and more. Tyra Banks is going on the offensive. The famed model and former television host has filed a lawsuit against Netflix over her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2458225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[394141,23191,53647,392150,363660,318808],"class_list":["post-2458224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-hordern-pavilion","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-series","tag-reality-check","tag-sexual-assault","tag-tyra-banks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Tyra-Banks-reportedly-sues-Netflix-over-\u2018Americas-Next-Top-Model.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458226,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458224\/revisions\/2458226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2458225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}