Tyra Banks says Netflix’s ‘America’s Next Top Model’ documentary distorted her words

Banks is using video comparisons as part of her ongoing lawsuit over how her interviews were edited.

Tyra Banks is using video comparisons to argue that Netflix’s “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” distorted her words. The move builds on her June lawsuit and follows her request for unaired footage from interviews with former colleagues.

TMZ reported that Banks submitted comparison videos.

The dispute includes the documentary’s treatment of former contestant Shandi Sullivan’s account of an alleged sexual assault. Banks’ complaint says the first episode ends with her saying “um” when asked whether she remembers Sullivan’s story.

Banks alleges that the first episode’s edit removed an affirmative nod and her response, “I do remember her story,” creating the impression that she could not recall what happened. Her fuller response appears in episode two.

She also challenges how the documentary presented an earlier conversation with Sullivan about infidelity. Her complaint alleges that Sullivan introduced the subject, but producers rearranged footage to make it appear that Banks initiated the discussion and prompted an on-camera confession.

Tyra Banks filed the lawsuit in California federal court in June, alleging that producers used about 16 minutes of a three-and-a-half-hour interview while leaving out comments in which she took responsibility for aspects of the original show. She is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial.

Netflix disputes her account. In an August statement to ABC News, a spokesperson said the filmmakers gave Banks an opportunity to speak openly and fairly presented her perspective alongside those of other participants.

The defendants argue that dissatisfaction with editing does not establish defamation. They also contend that the series does not reasonably convey the damaging implications Banks attributes to it.

Banks’ attorney, Tom Clare, told ABC News that the dispute concerns whether editing materially distorted the truth. He called for the release of her complete interview so viewers could compare it with the documentary.

The dismissal hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30.