Earlier this year, Netflix’s 2026 release schedule ushered in the premiere of Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, a three-part documentary series on the eponymous reality competition series. The show features various interviews with the long-running show’s former contestants and hosts, including series creator Tyra Banks. Now, it seems Banks has taken issue with the streamer, as she’s formally suing the company in connection to her involvement in the doc. And Banks’ lawsuit lays out her rationale for taking legal action.
Banks is specifically filing suit over alleged defamation by implication, breach of contract, false endorsement and false light. Aside from Netflix, other defendants named in the lawsuit include against Netflix as well as 89 Blocks Holdings, EverWonder Studio, Netflix Music and documentary co-directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy, per Variety. 52-year-old Banks reportedly takes issue with the “three-and-a-half-hour” interview she did being cut down to only “16 minutes.”
