by Jenna GuillaumeBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Contributor The Netflix docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model delves into the behind-the-scenes rollercoaster of Tyra Banks's iconic 2000s reality show, featuring interviews from several former contestants. The women had A LOT to say about their treatment by producers - and by Tyra herself. Here are some highlights: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images 1. Ebony Haith from Cycle 1 calls out Tyra and ANTM for the way they treated her as a queer, Black woman, including making her sexuality a storyline without properly discussing it with her or protecting her (including from fellow contestants who had anti-gay bias). UPN, Courtesy of Netflix "When I went on that show, I knew people would be against anything I represent, being a Black woman that's gay or whatever it is. But I did think that I would be protected," Ebony says. "I hoped at least they'd pull me to the side and say, 'How do you wanna approach this?' They forgot the danger of that." Ebony says her makeover and the way it was portrayed was also hard for her. "When I saw the makeovers, that's when I felt the full disappointment of the way I was represented. I'm sitting there and I have three of the top stylists over my head laughing at my hair texture," Ebony recalls. "People did not have the correct clippers. Everybody basically said they didn't know what to do. ... They ended up giving me three bald spots." UPN Ebony adds that when she unexpectedly got a call from Tyra later that day - after barely having spoken to her previously - she thought that Tyra might want to address the botched makeover and help her. But, Ebony says, Tyra instead told her, "The judges have been talking to me, and they've been saying that you have been showing up ashy every day."Ebony says she was "blown away" by the call from Tyra and started to question whether she was being treated differently because she was Black. She also felt like she couldn't speak up or share how she was feeling. "There's nothing I can do that's going to make it better. Whatever narrative they're creating, they're gonna do this...I realized that Tyra and the judges aren't gonna help me." "My heart was breaking as I'm on this national show, thinking that the world would be proud of me," Ebony says. UPN 2. Giselle Samson from Cycle 1 says that the judges body-shamed her in a way that still haunts her to this day, especially when Tyra said she had a "wide ass." UPN, Courtesy of Netflix "I'm walking away, I'm 18 years old, growing into my body, and she's like, 'Giselle, she's got a wide ass.' They chose to put that in there," Giselle says. "How I was left feeling about myself in that moment has stayed with me forever. 'Why does my ass have to be so wide?' Like that's how I talk to myself, you know? To this day." UPN Giselle's confidence took a dive while filming, and she says the way she was portrayed actually hindered her career, with agents and managers wanting nothing to do with her. "I was the girl who had no confidence, and who's going to want to hire that girl? I believed now that I wasn't good enough, I'm not gonna make it." UPN 3. Shandi Sullivan from Cycle 2 says production not only filmed a sexual encounter she was too drunk to consent to, but they also crafted a story that made her the "villain," and wouldn't let her leave the show. UPN / Via Netflix, Courtesy of Netflix Shandi says she was blackout drunk when what was presented as her "cheating" on her boyfriend occurred. "I was blacked out," she says. "No one did anything to stop it. And it all got filmed. All of it. Every moment of it. ... I didn't even feel sex happening, I just knew it was happening and then I passed out." UPN Shandi calls out producers for not putting a stop to what happened to her and instead filming everything, even setting up a scene the next day where Tyra coaxed the story out of Shandi and framed her as in the wrong. They also refused to let her leave when she wanted to, and only agreed to her being able to call her boyfriend, Eric, if they could film it. They also made her go to the doctor as well as talk to the male model involved - all on camera.
Later, Tyra invited Shandi and other contestants for a reunion on her talk show The Tyra Banks Show, and aired footage of the incident for Shandi to react to on camera, despite Shandi having told Tyra she had never watched it and never wanted to. When asked by Reality Check producers about what happened to Shandi, Tyra at first appears as though she doesn't remember her, and then says, "It's a little difficult to talk about production because I'm...that's not my territory." Netflix Executive producer Ken Mok says they treated the show as a "documentary," and adds, "I will tell you this. When I went into post and saw the footage, we scaled back that scene in a significant way. That was, for good or bad, one of the most memorable moments in Top Model."Meanwhile, Shandi says, "After the show, I felt really broken." 4. Keenyah Hil