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Earlier this week, news broke that a documentary looking back on America’s Next Top Model and its most problematic moments is coming to Netflix in February. So far, the show’s mainstays, including Tyra Banks, Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and J. Alexander are all confirmed to be participating, but what about the contestants? The show’s first ever winner, Adrianne Curry, is now speaking out, because not only will fans not see her in the documentary, but she has a lot of feelings about the project even being made in the first place.
The trailer for the documentary debuted this week.
After ANTM has received criticism for years for the controversies that came up during filming (not to mention the many moments of the show that simply did not age well), the pros on the show are finally speaking out in the new documentary, which is titled Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
“I knew I went too far … it was very intense, but you guys were demanding it,” Tyra said at one point in the trailer, hinting that she believes the audience may be to blame.
Adrianne made it very clear she did not participate.
After getting many questions about whether or not she sat down with producers for the documentary, Adrianne put it all out there in a post on X, writing, “No, guys. I dont do this sh$t and won’t be on it or anything else. Sorry. Hard retired. Hard pass.”
She later returned with another message. Adrianne added, “I am deeply grateful I won the first season of top model. i think people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd. I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv, so i decline everything. Also, the public is cult-like and cruel, so the last thing I want is a bunch of eyeballs on me. I hope the other girls do not have their words twisted in their netflix show.”
Adrianne retired from public life 10 years ago, and it sounds like she’s made her peace with that fact.
She made an Instagram post abot the situation, too.
Just to make sure where she stands on documentaries like this one is clear, she also shared a screenshot of her post on Instagram, adding in the caption, “I say no to all of these. I have 0 trust in any producers, no desire to be really public in this day and age…. and am hard retired from Hollywood.”
In response to one fan, Adrianne added, “It’s a cover up fest. Let ’em weave their webs.”
Reality Check begins streaming on Netflix on February 16, so it won’t be too long until we find out if it’s as much of a cover up as Adrianne suspects it is.
