Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Eva Marcille was “gobsmacked” by what she saw from Tyra Banks and models on Netflix‘s three-part docuseries, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
In an interview on CBS Mornings, Eva, the Cycle 3 winner of ANTM, detailed her reaction to the viral streamer.
Eva was in the dark as to what went on:
“I was in awe. My mouth was wide open. To be a part of a club, and not know what’s going on in the club is crazy.”
According to Eva ‘the diva‘, neither Tyra nor production invited her for an interview. “They didn’t ask me,” she said. “It was very surprising.” Eva Marcille [then Eva Pigford] was seen briefly in a package featuring contestants who went on to find success, but that was it.
“Being that I was the shortest girl on my season, and the idea of a Black girl and this short in the modeling business, it’s unheard of. It will never happen,” she said, recalling how improbable her win once seemed.
What Netflix’s doc exposed:
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The ANTM exposé reexamined the UPN show’s legacy, revisiting its more controversial moments, revealing the troubling impact filming had on its participants, both on and off camera.
Cycle 2’s Shandi Sullivan was sexually assaulted as cameras rolled. The story was spun so that Shandi was made the villain, since she had a boyfriend at the time.
“Horrible. Horrible,” Marcille said when asked about those revelations. Shandi was one of several models who came forward with lasting trauma from filming the reality TV show.
While Eva maintained she didn’t know what was happening, she thinks the judges “absolutely” had a role in creating that climate. “That environment could not exist without producers aiding and embedding what was going on. ”
