Adrianne Curry Reacts to Tyra Banks Suing Netflix After ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Docuseries

"America's Next Top Model" winner Adrianne Curry has hit back at Tyra Banks after the former host filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix over the documentary "Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model."

Adrianne Curry, 43, the winner of the first cycle of "America's Next Top Model," has spoken out after Tyra Banks filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix following the release of "Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model."

Adrianne Curry attends the world premiere of "The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened?" at the Egyptian Theatre on April 30, 2015 in Hollywood, California. | Source: Getty Images

In her complaint, filed Saturday, June 13, Banks accused the streaming giant of intentionally portraying her in a defamatory light on the docuseries to "support a false narrative," and leaving out a significant portion of her interview — much of which is said to have focused on accountability for the show's more controversial aspects.

Curry took to Instagram on Sunday, June 14, just hours after news of the lawsuit broke, to slam the former host. "I read that Tyra Banks is suing Netflix because she didn't like being edited," Curry said on Instagram, using air quotes around the word "edited."

"[Expletive], for real girl?" she continued with a laugh, before adding in the caption, "Welcome to the party, pal."

Curry had been invited to participate in the "Reality Check" docuseries but declined. Prior to the lawsuit, however, the former model had expressed "mad respect" for Banks — commending her for "not apologizing" for the controversies surrounding "America's Next Top Model."

Adrianne Curry during the "Light Years Away" Los Angeles Screening at Universal City Walk Cinemas on July 19, 2006, in Universal City, California. | Source: Getty Images

"I have mad respect for Tyra Banks. She is not sorry. She is not apologizing to you. That [expletive] is not effing sorry," Curry said in an Instagram video in February. "She will not bend the knee. And I respect that. You want her to lie? Lie and say how bad she feels?"

"Everyone's coming to me like, 'None of the judges are sorry.' Why should they be?" she went on. "They're all loaded. [...] But mad respect for Tyra because that's hard to push back on that many people trying to struggle session you. She's just like, '[Expletive] you, I do what I want.' And I gotta respect that."

The month prior, Curry had taken to X to explain in a series of posts why she chose not to take part in the docuseries. "I think people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd," she wrote.

Curry also noted that she turns down all TV opportunities, citing a lack of trust in producers to represent her words fairly. She added that today's public climate — which she described as volatile and mob-minded — had left her with little appetite for the spotlight.

She later elaborated on Instagram, "I have zero trust in any producers, no desire to be really public in this day and age, and am hard retired from Hollywood."

Banks, meanwhile, has requested a jury trial to determine the appropriate amount in damages, alleging that through "Reality Check," Netflix manufactured drama through selective editing and deliberate omission. She claimed that only 16 minutes of her three-and-a-half-hour interview made the final cut.

Citing the series' "false and defamatory" portrayal and the "significant mental anguish" she suffered as a result, Banks is seeking damages including loss of future business opportunities, loss of business income, and other compounding losses to be determined at trial.