Lisa D’Amato, formerly of America’s Next Top Model, has revealed the shocking treatment she received on the show from none other than Tyra Banks.
Lisa D’Amato Slams Tyra Banks Over Her Treatment On America’s Next Top Model
When speaking to her fans on Instagram, she went on to say the following comments: “This message is for Tyra Banks. Remember me? Hi. Lisa. Remember when I had an opportunity to ask you one question in season 5 — a modelling question —, and I came in and asked you a question that wasn’t about modelling, and you kicked me out? “Can I get that question back?”
She then revealed just how close she was to being sued by the show. She told E! the following: “I did it knowing that this was a breach of contract, still, because I felt like it was my duty to warn other girls that were going to audition for America’s Next Top Model to know that what you guys do and the way that you guys would poke me and use my childhood trauma against me, day in and day out. It was just so f–ked up, and it broke my heart. Like, how could you do that?”
And things continued to get more disturbing as Lisa spoke on the profound trauma she had experienced at the hands of Tyra. She told her fans: “I don’t know how you sleep at night. You, Tyra, you knew very well the horrible trauma that my mom inflicted on me, and you also talk so much about how you wouldn’t be where you are without your mother and how powerful she is—so knowing that you still did that to me and continued to do it to other girls, even after I spoke publicly about it.”
But it is not just Lisa who has spoken out against the show. Another star, Angelea Preston, told the Daily Mail just how bad she was treated. Speaking in 2015, she said: “It’s insane, the amount of bulls–t that me and the other girls went through. There are times when we didn’t get fed. We had to film straight through, 15, 18 hours without eating.”
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