ANTM alum Adrianne Curry defends Tyra Banks’ past show behavior and claims ex-show stars ‘need to let it go!’

AMERICA'S Next Top Model alum Adrianne Curry defended Tyra Banks' past show behavior and claimed that her fellow ex-show stars "need to let it go!"

In an exclusive video interview with The U.S. Sun, Adrianne, 42, said that while she hasn't spoken to her former boss since her time on the show in Season 1, she still backs the supermodel TV host. 

"We haven't talked since season one of Top Model but I wish her well," Adrianne said. 

"I know everyone came to cancel her and s**t."

Adrianne continued: "I felt bad when everyone thought it was funny during Covid, when all the top model contestants wanted to air their grievances, and they wanted me to jump on board because if anyone that could be mad at her, it would be me."

"But I'm like, Dude, I'm so over that, it's been like 900 years. 

"You b***hes need to let this go, like you need to live your life and not hold grudges like this," Adrianne said. 

Tyra came under fire during the Covid pandemic as people rewatched clips of ANTM and took issue with how the supermodel at times behaved.

In one clip, fans took issue with Tyra telling a gay contestant on the fifth season of the show how to make her gayness acceptable.

The clip shows Tyra taunting the contestant by saying, “I’m Black and proud ... but I’m not, like, walking down the red carpet [saying] ‘I’m Black, I’m Black.'”

In another instance that went viral, people attacked Tyra for deriding Season 6 winner Danielle Evans for the gap between her front teeth.

The former reality star said that at that point, she defended her old boss.

"I actually defended Tyra Banks, because I'm like, you guys are mad at someone because of a TV show that you loved and supported, and now 20 years later, it didn't age the way you wanted, and you want to hold it accountable to the impossible standards people set on each other. No. F*** off, you know? It's just a bunch of bored people wanting to shake their fits at things," Adrianne said. 

PAINFUL JOURNEY

Adrianne, who now lives in the remote mountains of Montana, has been open about her past in the spotlight and the physical and mental effect it had on her. 

Earlier this month, Adrianne spoke with The U.S. Sun about her journey to remove her breast implants and shared graphic photos of her ordeal.

She said she wants to warn others about what she says are the dangers behind getting implants in the first place.

Adrianne said her breasts were ideal before her implant surgery.

"I was young, and my boobs were absolutely perfect. I had a full, full B, small C," but she had what she called a deformity that was in part because her chest was concave.

She said that she decided to get implants and did the surgery with "the best of the best" in Beverly Hills.

She spent $15,000 on her implants in 2006, but her body immediately rejected them.

The former reality star went back to her surgeon and said she wanted them out.

Instead, she said she was talked into a revision for another $15,000, which her body also rejected.

"I gotta tell everyone, like, if your body rejects implants immediately, it's probably going to do it again."

Adrianne said she had "capsular contracture within like a year or two, where your body forms scar tissue all around the implants."

She tried to lie to herself to tell her she liked them after sinking $30,000 into her chest.

She said despite her best intentions, she knew something was very wrong, despite various doctors assuring her there were no leaks or ruptures in the implants.

Ultimately though, Adrianne knew something was wrong, despite several doctors telling her her implants were fine and there were no leaks.

In 2020, when she finally had her explant surgery, her worst fears and suspicions were realized.

"They found that my right implant had been ruptured for a long time, but that the scar tissue had kept it in, and it was still slow leaking, and this leakage compromised all my natural breast tissue around it, and it died, causing necrosis, which I call them zombie titties."

When she woke up from the explant surgery, Adrianne was dealt another stunning blow.

"The doctor had to remove all my dead flesh, so I don't know this is happening in surgery, and I wake up and she was like 'I had to do a breast reduction,'" she said.

Adrianne has credited her husband, Matthew Rhode, for being by her side through it all.

She said he even removed her stitches for her after her explant surgery.