Tyra Banks Recalls Controversial ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Moments, Deflects Blame in Docuseries

Tyra Banks is sharing her side of the story in Netflix’s Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model — but that doesn’t mean she’s taking the blame for any of the show’s missteps.

In the three-part docuseries, Banks, 52, fellow executive producer Ken Mok, judges Jay Manuel, Miss J. Alexander and Nigel Barker, and former contestants sat down to look back on the reality competition series, which ran for 15 seasons from 2003 to 2018.

In Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model, Shandi Sullivan — who appeared in cycle 2 at the age of 21— opened up about a harrowing incident that played out on the show when a group of guys were invited back to where the contestants were staying during a trip to Milan.

There, Sullivan explains, she got drunk off of “two bottles of wine” and while “hammered,” she was...