Tiffany Richardson accuses Tyra Banks of bullying her behind the scenes, regardless of Banks’ apology in Netflix docuseries.
Editing of the unique confrontation allegedly hid the extent of Banks’ harsh feedback in the direction of Richardson.
Richardson calls for a face-to-face assembly with Banks to deal with the long-lasting influence of the incident.
Time doesn’t heal all wounds.
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America’s Next Top Model alum Tiffany Richardson goes in on Tyra Banks after the present’s creator apologized over their insanely viral second on the present. Her apology got here in Netflix’s new docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
While being eradicated from the present alongside one other contestant, Rebecca Epley, Richardson wasn’t as visibly upset by the second. While Epley cried, Richardson, didn’t, which clearly obtained to Tyra.
“Rebecca, I like your emotion proper now. It exhibits to me that this was one thing that’s essential to you,” Banks mentioned, earlier than turning to Richardson. “Tiffany, I’m extraordinarily disenchanted in you. This is a joke to you. … This is severe to those women, and it needs to be severe to you.”
As the second grew to become extra heated, Banks and Richardson started speaking over one another as they tried to clarify themselves, which drove Banks to turn out to be utterly unhinged.
“I’ve by no means in my life yelled at a lady like this. When my mom yells like this, it’s as a result of she loves me.” she screamed, main into her now-infamous sound byte. “I used to be rooting for you! We had been all rooting for you!”
In the brand new docuseries, Banks admitted she went “too far”–however her apology wasn’t sufficient for Tiffany. In a now-deleted publish, Richardson slammed the present’s creator in a prolonged caption, calling her a liar and a bully.
“Hold up @tyrabanks let’s preserve it cute. you’re 1 mendacity a** tied a** b***h,” She started in her publish.
“You know the way you handled me the entire time on and off digicam, YOU WAS A BULLY!!!” she continued. “You handled me like s**t and mentioned the nastiest issues about me and my son. That will not be how the argument went however YALL EDITED TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU CARED…”
She then set her sights on others who wronged her, writing: “Also F**Ok @theshaderoom F**Ok YO WERID A– FANS AND F— YOU @tyrabanks I BET YOU WONT SIT DOWN WITH ME FACE TO FACE AND TALK ABOUT IT!!! Also F— MY FAMILY TOO 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 yall don’t ever defend me, I obtained extra money and serving to extra folks than all or most of the prime fashions however that’s the replace yall give 🙄 da*n disgrace.. it’s giving yall nonetheless hating on lil black a** me. @tyrabanks h*e simply let it go, ITS BEEN OVER 20 years 😭.”
In the docuseries, Tyra mentioned she “went too far” with Richardson, admitting that she “misplaced it” on her through the heated second.
“It was most likely greater than her. It was household, pals, society, Black women, all of the challenges that we’ve got,” Banks mentioned. “So many individuals saying that we’re not ok. I believe all that was in that second. That’s some Black lady stuff that goes actual deep inside me, however I knew I went too far.”
The present’s artistic director, Jay Manuel, referred to as the scenario “essentially the most troublesome second on set I had ever skilled.”
Manuel additionally appeared to verify that the enhancing claims had been true, saying, “There was much more that was actually mentioned. And a few of the issues that had been mentioned, had been actually not well-intentioned. I’ll most likely by no means repeat the traces that had been mentioned in that room, that day.”
In an interview with Buzzfeed final month, Richardson opened up about her time on the present, insisting that what occurred in actual life was truly quite a bit worse than what the present portrayed.
Tiffany says the notorious argument was “1,000 occasions worse” in actuality, recalling Banks yelling at her and saying, “You can return to your own home and sleep in your mattress on the ground along with your baby.”
While Richardson wouldn’t reveal additional details about what might have been lower from Banks’ tirade, that specific remark, she mentioned, “stayed behind my thoughts.”
