"America&x27;s Next Top Model" Contestant in Viral &x27;We Were All Rooting for You&x27; Scene Slams Tyra Banks for Being a &x27;Bully&x27; Angela AndaloroFri, March 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM UTC 0 Tyra Banks and Tiffany Richardson in America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4, Episode 7, 2005.Credit: UPN Tiffany Richardson, a cycle 4 contestant on America's Next Top Model, shared her feelings towards Tyra Banks in an Instagram post Banks and Tiffany got into a heated exchange during an elimination ceremony that became a viral moment Tyra Banks opened up about the moment on America's Next Top Model in the ne...
"America's Next Top Model" Contestant in Viral 'We Were All Rooting for You' Scene Slams Tyra Banks for Being a 'Bully'
Angela AndaloroFri, March 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM UTC
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Tyra Banks and Tiffany Richardson in America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4, Episode 7, 2005.Credit: UPN -
Tiffany Richardson, a cycle 4 contestant on America's Next Top Model, shared her feelings towards Tyra Banks in an Instagram post
Banks and Tiffany got into a heated exchange during an elimination ceremony that became a viral moment
Tyra Banks opened up about the moment on America's Next Top Model in the new documentary Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
Tiffany Richardson doesn't believe Tyra Banks has any regret over her treatment of her.
Richardson, a cycle 4 contestant on America's Next Top Model, took to Instagram earlier this month to share her thoughts about the explosive elimination that went viral as Banks shouted at her while sending her home.
While the "We were all rooting for you," moment has lived on in viral history, it's being re-examined in the context of Banks' comments about it in the three-part Netflix docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.
In the documentary, Banks admitted, "I went too far. I lost it," adding, "It was probably bigger than her — it was family, friends, society. Black girls, all the challenges that we have, so many people saying that we're not good enough. I think all of that was in that moment."
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"That's some Black girl stuff that goes real deep inside of me, but I knew I went too far," she concluded.
Richardson urged the supermodel to "keep it cute" in her response to the moment resurfacing.
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"You are one lying ass [tired] ass bitch... you know how you treated me the whole time off and on camera, YOU WAS A BULLY!!!" Richardson wrote.
"You treated me like s--- and said the nastiest things about me and my son. That is not how the argument went but YALL EDITED TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU CARED," she alleged.
Tagging Banks, she continued, "I BET YOU WONT SIT DOWN WITH ME FACE TO FACE AND TALK ABOUT IT!!!"
Today, Richardson lives in Miami, Fla., and while she ultimately decided against modeling, she has made an impact by working with the disabled at a group home in her area, per her 2017 BuzzFeed interview.
Sadly, the mom of two suffered a difficult loss in 2023 when her son, Chadrick, who she discussed throughout her season as her motivation for wanting more, was killed during a robbery at 21-years-old. She is also mom to a daughter, Chaz.
Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is streaming now on Netflix.
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