Supermodel Tyra Banks filed a lawsuit against Netflix over their documentary, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, but the network is clapping back.
US Weekly reported that the streaming platform filed court documents asking the court to “throw out” Tyra’s defamation claims.
“Directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy are respected documentarians who thoroughly interviewed the people behind ANTM. Tyra Banks was given the opportunity to speak openly about her experience. The creators fairly presented her perspective alongside those of every other participant shown in this documentary.”
“We stand behind Reality Check and will continue to vigorously defend it.”
Earlier this summer, Tyra claimed the streaming service “edited her Reality Check interviews to support a false narrative.”
In a statement, the Supermodel’s team wrote, “Tyra’s lawsuit raises a simple question: can viewers trust that a documentary presented as fact fairly represents what happened and what people actually said? Netflix’s response only underscores the issue. It points to the editing of reality television to defend the editing of this documentary. No one disputes that documentaries are edited.”
“The question is whether those edits materially distorted the truth. This is not about Tyra being ‘dissatisfied’ with an edit, nor is it about wanting creative control. It is about whether viewers were given an accurate representation of her words and the facts.”
“Netflix has Tyra’s complete, unedited interview. If Netflix stands behind the accuracy of its documentary, it should release that interview in full and let viewers judge for themselves. Let the public compare what Tyra actually said with what Netflix chose to show. The facts are the facts and, here, the facts are recorded and being hidden by Netflix.”
