As expected, Tyra Banks has decided to sue Netflix and several related entities involved in the making of the documentary, “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” that was released earlier this year.
Tyra is suing the giant streamer, 89 Blocks Holdings, EverWonder Studio, Netflix Music and co-directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan for false light, defamation by implication, breach of contract and false endorsement, with her lawyers claiming that the interview that the former “America’s Next Top Model” gave was manipulated in order to defame her.
The suit claimed that Tyra gave the documentary a three-and-a-half-hour interview, only to have it cut down to about 16 minutes, reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed.
It added that the show did not feature all of the “accountability” she took on some of the show’s shortcomings.
“Worse, the false narrative the producers constructed—through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage—included that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant’s trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked,” the suit read.
Netflix has yet to respond to the lawsuit at the time of writing.
