“I had a stroke. I woke up, I didn’t know where I was, other than the hospital,” Miss J. said in the docuseries. “I spent five weeks in a coma, and I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t talk. I thought to myself, what was I going to do? I couldn’t walk, I could’t speak. It was emotional, and I cried. I’m not ashamed to say that. I cried, and then once I was in the hospital, Jay [Manuel] and Nigel [Barker] came to visit.”
“I taught models how to walk. And now I can’t walk,” Miss J. added, in a clip shared online. “Not yet. I’m sure you’re gonna see me again. I’m sure.”
“I taught models how to walk. And now I can’t walk.”Miss J Alexander reveals he suffered a stroke a few years ago — but is determined to walk again. Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model is now on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/WoQbcL7pPT— Netflix (@netflix) February 16, 2026
“Did Tyra come and visit you?” a producer is heard asking Miss J, who replied, “No, not yet. She just sent me a text that she wants to come and visit me. But, no, not yet.”
Amid the revelation and a wave of troubling stories shared by former contestants throughout the doc, Banks is under fire online from viewers who feel she failed to take accountability in the series.
“Miss J knew Tyra since she was 16, and she didn’t even visit him in the hospital when he had a stroke….sent him a damn text like some distant co-worker smfh. NASTY WORK! TYRA YOU ARE A NOT A GOOD PERSON,” one X user wrote.
“The documentary for ANTM on Netflix made Tyra Banks look worse. Now, it’s no longer just about the show, and it being dated culturally, it’s about her being a bad person in general. She did the contestants bad, and she did her friends Miss J, J, and Nigel terribly too,” another person tweeted.
“The fact that she couldn’t put her pride aside and go visit Miss J, knowing he can’t walk anymore, really shows how cruel she is,” added another user, who accused Banks of “using” her former friends and judges.
“Girl at this point #TyraBanks is EXACTLY Who they say she is! You will never get me to believe otherwise! Everyone took accountability except her,” one user exclaimed.
Banks ended the three-part documentary by teasing plans for Cycle 25 of the iconic modeling competition, but those comments came before the series premiered and sparked backlash from frustrated fans.
RELATED CONTENT: Minding Our Own Business: Returning To Our Roots With These 5 African Nations Leading The Diaspora Repatriation Movement
Source: Black Enterprise
