Tyra Banks Sues Netflix Over America’s Next Top Model Docuseries

Shandi Sullivan Became “The Girl Who Cheated”

America’s Next Top Model Cycle 2 finalist Shandi Sullivan, who had a boyfriend back home, was filmed in bed with a male model who’d been partying at the contestants’ house in Milan, as seen on the March 16, 2004, episode “The Girl Who Cheated.” Shandi said in the 2026 Netflix series Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model that she was drunk and blacked out—and that she thought producers should have intervened.

“I think after getting out of the hot tub and whatever happened after that,” Shandi said in the series, “I think they should’ve f–king, like alright, this has gone too far, we’ve got to, like, pull her out of this.”

Also on the ANTM episode: Shandi crying the next morning, calling her boyfriend to confess to cheating and contacting the model in Milan to ask him if he had any STDs.

Asked about Shandi, Tyra Banks said in Reality Check, “I do remember her story. It’s a little difficult for me to talk about production because that’s not my territory.”

Executive producer Ken Mok said in the doc, “We treated Top Model as a documentary and we told the girls on day one, we’d go over the rules with them, there’s going to be cameras on you 24/7, day in and day out, and they’re going to cover everything, the good, the bad and the in-between.”

Added Tyra, “I’m not head of story, that’s Ken Mok. But I did become a master editor. It’s important for people to know that we didn’t put everything on TV.”

E! News reached out to Tyra and Ken for comment but did not hear back.