Supermodel and talk show host Tyra Banks is being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old sex addict who appeared on The Tyra Show.
Banks is known for talking about controversial and taboo topics, but the interview with an underage sex addict may have landed the “America’s Next Top Model” host in hot water. Banks is reportedly being sued for $3 million by Beverly McClendon, from Atlanta Georgia, for exposing her underage daughter to sexual deviants, perverts, and pedophiles alike.”
McClendon claims that it was inappropriate for the show to interview her daughter, then 15 and have her, unaccompanied, talk about sexual subjects.
McClendon daughter, Jewel Ciera Washington is said to have applied for the interview on an open call for sex addicts on Bank’s website, after which she was contacted by producers and flown to the show, picked up in a limousine and put up in a hotel, all unaccompanied, before appearing on Bank’s show. She was paid for the appearance.
McClendon apparently filed a missing person’s report after her daughter ‘went missing’ when she was in New York, and claims that the show violated her privacy by not first getting permission for her daughter to appear on the show.
She is asking for $1 million in damages, as well as $2 million in punitive damages and is also seeking for the episode to be barred from ever being aired again.
The lawsuit has also named the show’s producers and Warner Brothers as defendents in the case.
