Tale of Two Winners | EP 3

Hi, Curse Up listeners, I know you miss me on your feed. Don't worry. We're working on an all new season of Curse Of coming out later this year. In the meantime, if you can't stop thinking about the shocking stories you heard about America's Next Top Model, you'll definitely want to check out our new docuseries from E Dirty Rotten Scandals. In the series, you'll hear from the America's Next Top Model participants you heard from on Curse Of, and a few you didn't like. Former A and TM

I'm Angelie Preston. I am from Buffalo seven, one, six, All Day. People may remember me from America's X Top Model Cycles twelve, fourteen, and seventeen, the original winner of Cycle seventeen All Stars period.

But if you look it up, Lisa Dematto is the official winner of Cycle seventeen. So what happened? Well. To understand Angelee's story, the first thing you need to know is how hard she worked to even get cast on A and TM. It was Angelie's dream to be on the show. She auditioned three times before making it. The first time, Angelie didn't even get a call back. The second time Angelie sent in an audition.

Tape, the producer called me was like, we want you to come to New York New York City. Had never been to New York. So I go down there and I had nowhere to sleep. I was just a girl with a dream, like, come on, let me just go down here. This is my chance to see the cast and director slip into port Authority and the stall. It was so gross. Yes, I was so hungry, so hungry for a girl.

Angelie always knew she wanted to be a model. As a kid, she was teased for being tall and skinny. She knew in the modeling industry her body type would be celebrated. Plus, she experienced a personal tragedy after her first audition that made her want it even more.

I ended up getting pregnant with my daughter, so I kind of like put that dream on hold and was just like, Okay, I'm gonna just be a mom. Maybe the modeling eight for me. My daughter passed away not too long after she was born, and this was in two thousand and seven, so I kind of took that as a sign like maybe I'm not supposed to be a mom yet. And then that's when I auditioned again.

That was cycle twelve. She didn't make it on the show. During the auditions, she got into a huge argument with another contestant.

And I showed my ass in Vegas and got set the fuck home.

I got saying, oh, I was smiling. But Angelie was determined to make it on A and TM, so she auditioned again and finally made it into the house on Cycle fourteen, Angelie quickly became a fan favorite. She's one of my favorites too. Remember Alicia Keys in the early two thousands. Angelie kind of looks like her and has her vibe. But if Alicia Keys was loud and outgoing and didn't play the piano, but you get it the

Bitchated, I'm uneducated.

I don't know, are you well?

I'm not educated?

You know what, I really don't look it up tonight.

It's really unfair that people assume that I'm uneducated because I talked this way.

You educated and you ignorant, and you really when the judges eliminated her on cycle fourteen. They said they were worried A and TM would be the end for her, not the beginning. But not too long after, producers reached out to invite her back on for cycle seventeen. It would be A and TM's first and only all star season. They invited former A ANDTM contestants to compete against each other for the title of America's next Top Model.

This is an opportunity to do it right this time, and they're talking about the format is going to be different for all Stars. They're going to be branding us as celebrities and you're gonna get paid.

Angelie decided to do it this time. She was going to show a more poised side of herself. At first, the judges were like, where's the old Angelie? But eventually her new approach paid off. When it came time to shoot the finale in Greece, the set was built and the cameras were rolling. Angelie and the other two finalists stood in front of Tyra and Angelie's picture was the final one on the screen. Angelie was crowned the winner of A and TM. She burst into tears. Everything had

When I won first, all was had.

I was like hell yeah, I want yeah, yeah.

My life was changed forever, Like my mom was gonna be taking care of I'm gonna take care of her how she took care of me.

I wish I could play you a clip of Angelie's win, but I can't because it never aired. Want to Beyond some want to Beyond. Welcome to the Curse of America's Next Top Model. I'm Bridget Armstrong. Last episode, we did a deep dive on cycle one because it's the blueprint for what A and TM became, which was a mega hit. The production grew, and so did the show's popularity. They were filming multiple cycles within the same calendar year, churning

Supermodel Tyra Banks had an idea for a reality show.

She called it America's Next Top Model, where she and a panel of judges.

Set out to find out the next it girl on the runway.

Fifteen years and twenty four seasons later, the hit show has become the longest running reality function series.

Airing in seventy three, Country You.

Go, Girl and the Boss's back.

As the show's success also meant it had a reputation to protect, they had more to lose. That's a big part of how Angelie ended up having her win revoked by A and TM executives. A and TM never told viewers the real story behind Angelie's disqualification. Fans have wondered what really happened and how the show was even allowed to take the title from a winner. And I'll tell you now, the reversal was completely within the show's rights

I have got receipts, i have got research, I've got names, I've got stories these days.

Lisa lives in Portugal. She's a mom of two sons and a caregiver to her father. She seems to be going through a nasty divorce. Lisa started a company that makes a food storage bib for toddlers. It was featured on Shark Tank. When she joined me, she was sitting outside on a noisy patio, possibly at a rental house. She was saying it while her castle was being renovated. Honestly, it's a little hard to follow because our interviews started out on a chaotic note which felt on brand but

Lisa drinks.

She's going through like bottles of wine, like whole bottles in less than forty five minutes.

Is sick.

Definitely think that Lisa's drinking is hurting.

Her the Josh, You're not gonna want.

Someone who's an alcoholic to represent America's next hot model.

Her attitude and like her drinking and everything that she's doing here is just bizarre to me.

And the time she peed in a diaper during a photo shoot with the guy from MTV's jackass.

No woman of class, especially a supermodel and making is gonna do something as disgusting as p on herself at her job.

She managed to shock Stevo, which is an amazing feat. Lisa didn't seem to get along with most of the girls on her season. She came off like a drunk no at all. She was definitely one of that cycle's villains, but she made such great tv A and TM brought her back for cycle seventeen All Stars. Despite the controversy around her win in that season, Lisa believes she was actually predetermined to win the whole thing. She thinks this because of something she says was in her contract.

I actually signed the winning contract before even going.

On All Stars.

My manager was told by production not every girl signed the winning contract, and I asked some of the girls why we were filming, and they said dump. I was set up to win from the very beginning. That was all planned from the very beginning.

For the finale, She thinks the whole thing was an elaborate plot and that they never intended to give Angelie the win they did.

Angelie so dirty.

Lisa says producers manufactured a fake win for Angelie. She said the finale, said in Greece, didn't even look complete. Lisa believes they leaked the alleged fake win to stir up controversy around the season and hopefully boost the ratings, which had dropped. It is true that news of Angelie's win had leaked before the finale aired. An A and TM producer told me that was the real reason the show picked a new winner and reshot the finale. They were worried no one would watch the season if they

A week or two later, somebody from the network production called me. I was like, you know, they want to have a meeting with you, and they basically told me we can't air you as the winner because you violated your contract.

There's a rumor that Angelie was disqualified because she spoke publicly about her win before it aired. The contract explicitly forbids contestants from doing that. But Angelie says she didn't violate this part of the contract because remember, she says she didn't leak her win until after it was revoked. Angeline says producers told her she breached the morality clause

Show That was ball And I was crying right obviously, because you guys just put a dagger through my heart. Iden had all this plans for this money. This was to be my second, my third chance to make it right. I was going to do right this time, and now you're basically telling me, Nope, you just did all this for nothing. Again.

I got my hands on a copy of that contract, and after the break we take a look and find out what A and TM considered a moral violation. Contracts on reality TV are a pretty standard thing. The contracts ensure that the rights and obligations of talent and producers are clear. On the talent side, on a very basic level, it spells out the payment terms, and on production side, the contracts ensure cast members don't gossip and spoil the show before it comes out or divulge the behind the

I do remember the America one being like WHOA. I swear the American one was literally like we own you for the rest of your life and everything you.

Do, honestly like what they said.

And I think Britain was like you gotta be on camera and baby, like you might make money after him, We'll take it for a year.

I've read an A and TM contract, actually a few of them, including one from cycle seventeen, and I agree with Sophie, it's WHOA. When I talked to the rest of the models about their contracts, this idea of A and TM owning them kept coming up. Here's Uvi Gomez from cycle four.

I was like, barely twenty one, just signing my life away.

And hannahcat Jones, who was the second runner up on cycle sixteen.

I felt like I was signing my soul away, and I thought about how the opportunity would be life changing.

So life changing that Hannah looked the other way on a particularly concerning clause in the contract.

And another thing that was in the contract that I always remember standing out was if something happened to me on the show, if I got insured or even died, my family wouldn't be owed anything.

If you're thinking, well, that probably just meant Hannah couldn't sue the show should something happen. I'm sure ANTM had insurance to cover the contestants if they were hurt, you would be wrong. The contract made the contestants acknowledge that they were personally responsible for maintaining accident and health insurance to cover any bodily injury they suffered on set, while traveling,

At the time, we knew we were signing our life away, but I'm not sure I had the prefuntal cortex to really understand the ramifications of that.

Sarah told me she wasn't the only one who had to sign. Anyone she planned to talk to while in the house also had to sign a contract.

If you want to be able to call anyone on the phone while you were there, you had to have them basically sign their life away too. My boyfriend, my friends.

I talked to my.

Grandpa every week and he was like, I can't sign this, Like I can't and I was like, no, I know, you're signing your life away and he's like, no, you're signing your life rights away.

Do you understand that? And I was like, I do not. Sarah's granddad was referring to a part of the contract that gave A and TM the right to depict Sarah any way they wanted to, wherever they wanted to, or whenever they wanted to. Here's something strange, u V remembers in her contract.

It said something wild like we cannot talk about it on this planet or any other planet.

It was something so odd. I was like, do they know something though we don't know. Actually, I want to read you the part of the contract you V and Sarah are talking about. Here are some verbatim quotes, and bear with me, y'all, this might be one of the

A lot of people are given hush orders. A lot of people are forced to shut up. We have a contract that states if you breach it, if you speak out. I don't know about other past contestant cycles. Mine was a contract breach of four point five million dollars, Like, where do you think I'm going to put four point.

Five million dollars?

Barely any supermodels to this day even make that amount of money. But it's like they use more of scare tactics and threatenings via the contract to I think convince people not to talk and not to speak.

You may be wondering who in their right mind would sign this contract, and the answer is kids. These were naive teenagers and twenty somethings who were being offered the false promise of a career in the modeling industry. Sharon Brown was the first person eliminated on cycle eleven. She was really cute, with big, bright eyes and an infectious smile. She looked super young because she was she was eighteen, but she hadn't even graduated high school. When she was on the show, I.

Missed from my graduation, all the seen year festivities and everything.

To the ale Americ City Hall. It actually the day that I got eliminated was the day of my graduation. Sarah Hartstorms was in college, but she'd barely watched television when she signed up for A and TM.

I was eighteen when I auditioned and nineteen when we shot the show. I am from a town of seven hundred and sixty five people. My graduating class was fifteen kids. There is no TV in my hometown still to this day. You can't get regular cable because the cables don't reach it's too high up the mountain. So I didn't know anything, you know, I had never seen any reality TV.

Sarah went to college in Boston and that's when she was introduced to TV and A ANDTM. She remembers going to the casting call and being told to do her best runway walk.

They were saying, well, you've all seen models walk the runway, and I realized that the only models I'd ever seen walker runway was like the one season of Top Model that I'd watched before I was on the show.

Kenya Hill was a finalist on cycle four. I remember Kenya. She was my pick to win when I was watching her season. I was sixteen, and to me, Kenya looked like a sophisticated adult. She had that sharp jawline and thousand watts smile that made her look like she belonged on a college brochure. I didn't realize it back then, because to a high schooler, a college student looks like a sophisticated adult. So when Kenya was on the show, she was barely older than me.

I was seventeen years old. I was a freshman in college and I was living on campus. I actually auditioned for Top Model twice. I did the first audition while I was living in my dorms at school, and I had to go rent a VHS recorder. Okay, we're talking ancient times, so I had to go rent one from like the campus's radio section and self tape like me walking on the runway, which was like the dorm at my school. And I remember having someone take some photos

Kenya wanted to be a model because it was one of the few places where she saw people who look like her, and she thought the best way to get into the industry was to go on A and TM again. She was seventeen.

I had always wanted to model.

However, I was bullied pretty badly in junior high and in high school. In my community where I was living, it was cooler to be thick and curvy, and I was not that can.

We curse on this thing?

I didn't have no ass okay, and I felt like modeling is the one area where I'm accepted, Like, Okay, I'm really slim, I'm tall, and I would be able to thrive in this area.

If you're like me, you would probably never go on a reality show. So it might be hard to understand why anyone would sign such a one sided contract. These days, the answer is generally fame and money. Nini Leaks of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reportedly made two point eighty five million dollars a season at her peak, but numbers like that are usually for the biggest stars in reality TV. The cast of Love Island USA season seven allegedly got

Most days, we weren't getting paid except for a stipend that we had to use to pay for our own food. It was thirty seven dollars a day.

The exact amount differed from season to season. In fact, it laid that out in the eligibility requirements the contestants saw before auditioning. It said they would receive a per DM allowance, with the amount to be determined by the producers. Sarah was paying her way through college. She'd lined up a summer job at a blueberry farm before she got on A and TM. She of course chose the show, but that meant she wasn't going to get those blueberry earnings.

And so I got very obsessive about saving money and eating as cheaply as I could, and eating as.

Little as I could.

If I like bought food that wasn't good, I had to throw it away like that would be the end of the world.

Here's cycle to a winner. You want a house.

We were not paid. We were given a per dim. I believe it was like fifty dollars. And I saved the per diem because I stayed till the end of the show, so I never blew through my per dim. I saved it. And that was actually the money I used to move to New York.

Was the per dims by.

The time Gina Turner came around on the last season, the budgets were a bit tighter.

Our per diem started at like twelve dollars a day, and then if you made it past the next following elimination, it got bumped up to like nineteen twenty dollars a day, and then if you made it past another one and it was twenty four dollars a day if the so it was like gradually increasing the more that you made it. But it's not like you can pocket any of that money. We live in the hills in La Everything is expensive, and then people don't understand we're paying for our own food.

House, so they even we had to pay to get their laundry done. There are people who would say, well, this is what they signed up for. Their payment was the opportunity to be on the show. In fact, Farahart's one got this very comment from someone.

On Twitter, and I was like, no, we got forty dollars a day and we had to use that to pay for our own food. That was the tweet and people were like a surprised to hear that, but also they were so.

Mad at me.

There were so many people who were applied to that tweet, like, you knew what you were getting into, you got paid in exposure. You're just bitter that you didn't win, And I'm like, I'm not bitter that I didn't win. I'm bitter that there were a lot of girls who couldn't afford the mental help that they needed after the show. I've been so surprised by the backlash when I have said that I think.

We deserve to be paid.

It feels so not controversial to say I think people should be paid for their work.

That's interesting because according to A and TM, the contestants weren't employees. That's how they were able to avoid paying them a real wage, even though they showed up on set for twelve plus hour days. It made Tyra in the network a lot of money. They signed a contract that only entitled them to a minuscule per dim Now, to a teenager in the early two thousands, a few

We're best believed by the time we got to South Africa, I spent all that money shopping. I definitely spent that money. But later on, like a couple of years after doing the show, I remember feeling like this sucks. Like this show now is blowing up and it is in over one hundred and seventy countries, and we don't make a dollar off of this, And so it just at that point, like after I saw how big this show really was, like it felt like they get to make money off of my likeness forever.

Just a little context. In two thousand and nine, two years after Sarah went on the show, Tyra Banks was on the Forbes Top Earning Women in Primetime list. She reportedly made thirty million dollars between A and TM and her talk show in one year. Of course, ANTM was Tyra's idea and she was the star, so she deserved to make the most money from it, but damn she couldn't break the models off a little thousand dollars or something. You might be like the people who clap back at

It was just a contract, and then there was a contract with Suppora and that was only for a short time. There was no financial reward. There was nothing as far as monetary compensation. Nothing you want.

This agency representation did meet. It was easier to book jobs, but she couldn't use any of her top model portfolio photos because they were too unrealistic, which meant that after her win, she had to move to New York and immediately start booking test photoshoots.

I had to test that day, go to some incredible photographers that have been doing international vogues and start testing. And I was getting builled for everything. I was getting built for every car, for every pres event, I was getting built for the testing. I was getting built for the dresses that I thought were given to me, and that was me not asking, thinking oh this is so cool.

And not only that, her win meant she had to continue to promote A and TM after her season ended.

I also had to do a lot of continual press for the show, and it was not paid, so that would take precedence over any sort of jobs or castings that would pay. Tyra owned me for that year. The network owned me for that year. That's where the frustration came. I started getting angry. I started kind of almost not liking the show anymore. And it was really hard to not get kind of in that headspace of being better towards the show because I'm like, okay, you spit me

On cycle three, the cycle after Yawana's Top Models started awarding one hundred thousand dollars prize, Eva Marcel, who went by Eva Pickford back then, was the first winner to get it, but ANTM was not contractually obligated to give any winner anything even if the prize was announced on the show. As we heard last episode, Cycle one winner Adrian Curry says she didn't get what she was old.

When I won first, all was had. I was like, hell yeah, I want yeah, yeah, my life has changed forever, Like my mom was gonna be taking care of I'm I'll take care of her. How she took care of me.

That's Angelie Preston talking about how she felt after winning A and TM. I told you the story at the top of this episode about how Angelie was originally given the crown at the end of season seventeen. My team has talked to contestants and crew who were there when Angela was named the winner. Even the official winner, Lisa Demato, remembers Angelie's face after Angelie won and they were heading home.

I remember in the airport, Angelie looked finally at peace, like her chin was held so high.

She was so proud of herself.

But Angelie being the original winner is about the only thing they agree on in this story. Here's what Angelie says happened after she went home.

I got a phone call from somebody associated with the show, maybe like a week or two later, and was like, hey, have you been telling any of the girls about what happened to you?

Here's what happened to Angelie, the thing that got her disqualified after her first full season, cycle fourteen, Angelie was trying to start her modeling career. She had trouble booking jobs. She done well in the competition, but the edit made her seem difficult to work with, like a loose cannon. She couldn't get signed with an agency. She also had trouble finding a regular job. Things got bleak and she

We were just walking out Jamaica ab the av just two lost models, not knowing where to go, what to do, and this guy pulls up. He pulled up in this nice Mercedes and I was just looking real regular and he got out the car, had nice shoes, silk shirt, like, he looked like somebody and he was like, you know, a cap trying to talk to me.

He got her number and they started talking, but Angelie said something felt off. He started asking her about how she made.

Money, because I was telling him, yeah, I got money problems, like I'm a struggling model, and he like mentioned something about like going on dates, and I was like, what the fuck? This is like some models inc shit, Like I heard about models, you know, being escorts or whatnot, but I don't think this shit was real. So that kind of turned me off.

She stopped talking to him for a while, even booked a modeling job that paid her five hundred dollars, but when that ran.

Out, curiosity just peaked and ended up texting him. I was like, are you a pimp? And he was like, are you a hope? I was like what No, I was so offective and he was like, look, the girls I have, they just make money. So I'm like, but is there like sex involved? And he was like, no, you don't have to sleep with anybody if you don't want to. My dumb ass elite believe in it, Like, oh my god, a world where you go on dates with guys and they just give you money because you're beautiful.

Angelie was twenty five at this point, but she told me she was really naive. Buffalo was a small compared to New York City, and she was about to become a cautionary tale.

I ended up meeting two of his girls. They were like in this like ritty Manhattan hotel. One of the girls had a cute little dog, dad Louis bags.

Oh.

They were giving makeup, hair, Lubaton, shoes, roles, and I'm like, dang, these girls ain't got to sleep with these guys to get on this.

I could do that.

I could be pretty and go on dates and get the bag.

She told Silk Shirt she was down.

We ended up flying to North Carolina and I had nothing to tell anybody like what I was doing, you know, because I was like, well, I'm just I'm just going on a modeling trip, you know, because I don't want nobody to worry, because at the time I wasn't worried myself. And when I got there, the girls, the same two girls I had met, They were like, they're going to the strip club.

They were going there to pick up clients, and I.

Was like, oh, I was like, I don't know what was at the strip club, and so they looked at me like I was crazy, Like I didn't have a choice. The one girl was like, I don't know what you think this is, but he is going to expect you to work, and I'm like work and they were like yeah, and I'm like, so y'all, y'all be having sex with these people for money? What the fuck did I get myself into? So I'm like, okay, well, I don't got no money. I'm already here. I can't get signed, and

Angelie was so lost and dejected she didn't even think about the danger she was in.

Not even just putting my body on the line, but just meeting up with strangers, you know, no protection, Like I could have been killed.

The fear only started kicking in when they went to Vegas and she was worried about getting arrested.

I didn't of course, want people to know. I didn't want to go to jail. You know this girls on Top Model and out looking around here doing this crazy shit.

Right, She told Silk Shirt she wanted out.

He said, I'm gonna pay for your flight to go back to New York, but you have to work.

Angelie didn't have the money to leave on her own. Plus, she was scared because he'd threatened her and he'd been physically abusive before. Two of her friends eventually found out what was happening to her. One of those friends lived in Vegas. Angelie had actually met her on Top Model she won Angelie season. That friend got Angelie to call her sister and tell her what was going on. Her sister thought she was on drugs. Angelie was still too afraid to tell her best friend.

He kept me away from New York because there were people like my best friend that cared about me, and he didn't want me to go and have some sense being knocked into my head.

The guy eventually took Angelie to New York, but to work. Angelie says it had been a month since she left New York to go to North Carolina. Her top model friend says it was longer when Angelie got back to New York. She finally called that best friend she was too afraid to tell.

I was out in the hotel on Long Island and she was like, just meet me at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. I just want to know you are okay. I said, okay, cool, I said, I got my bag here at all. She said, just Lee get back, just to get back. I'll take it over, get it. So I took the long railroad went to go meet her and she said, bitch like. I gave her the longest hug and she's like, bitch, you ain't going back.

And that's how Angeline got out, through the kindness of a friend who wouldn't take no for an answer. The whole ordeal was short, but she learned a lifetime of lessons. A few months later, she got that call from A and TM All Stars. It was the lifeline sheet needed months before Angeline signed on to do the season, but she was worried the producers would find out about that chapter in her life. That fear was confirmed when she met up with casting director Michelle Mack.

Ended up having to go to la to meet with Michelle. So when I met with her, it was filmed there was a camera there and she's like, so, what have you been up to. I was like, oh, you know, nothing, just modeling, and she was like, that's it.

In my life.

I'm like, oh, she knows something. She knows something, and I'm like, yeah, that's it. And she asked me, she flat out asked me, was I being penned?

Angelie lied told her no because she thought if she told the truth, they wouldn't let her back on the show. But her mind started racing to figure out who snitched. Remember, I said two of her friends knew about the situation when she went to Vegas. Well, the one who'd been an A and TM contestant with Angelie said she reached out to top model producers, crew members, Tyra's assistant, and Tyra herself to try to get Angelie out of that situation. The friend said she didn't get much of a response.

Before we went in the house, we were in the hotel. Michelle came by with someone else and was like, I just want to tell you I know what happened. I just want you to take this opportunity and run with it. She gave me a hug and I was like, okay, this is our little secret.

Angelie believes she genuinely wanted to keep it between them so she could have another chance, and it almost worked. Angelie won. Then the whole thing blew up.

A week or two later, somebody from the network production called me. I was like, you know, they want to have a meeting with you in New York City because at this time I was back in Buffalo with my family. They want to have a meeting with you to discuss sponsorships because you are the winner.

I said, okay.

When I got down there, Amanda or our Inte Hotel, I'll never forget Columbus Circle. I'll walk up in that room. The attorney was there from CBS, Laura Feuse was there, Michelle Mock was there, Doctor Zachary was there.

That's the show psychologist.

Can Mock wasn't there, but they put his ass on the phone and they basically told me we can't air you as the winner.

Angelie says the execs told her being trafficked violated the morality clause. Of course, they didn't use the word trafficked, but that's what I'm calling it, and her violating that part of the contract meant she wouldn't be getting the one hundred thousand dollars or any of the other prizes.

He goes, don't you fucking say a word about this reshoot? And he put his finger in our faces, me and a El and we're standing right next to each other in the hallway and he goes, both of you, don't say a fucking word, do you hear me? Like threatened us. Then we got driven to the studio in the valley and it was the same set that they were shooting Cycle eighteen.

Lisa says, the next season was already in production and they used that set to tape the new finale. The whole thing was done in a day, and Lisa was the new and official winner of Cycle seventeen. In a way, both Angelie and Lisa fell victim to the A and TM curse because even though Lisa was given the title, she didn't enjoy her win. It had a dark cloud

Well, we're back in Los Angeles on the Top Model set, and we're here for a special finale that's been conducted under unusual circumstances.

Yeah, it turns out that after shooting was wrapped, a production team and the network learned information from Angelie that disqualifies it from the competition.

So what does that mean, Well, it means.

We're now going to do our final judging with the remaining two girls, and in the interest of fairness, that producers and the network thought it best to evaluate Alison and Lisa on their own without the added competition of Angelie.

You know, guys, we wish Angelie the best in all her future endeavors.

Oh, absolutely absolutely so. Were ready to proceed with our final judging?

Yes, let's do this.

Are you ready?

Yes?

All right?

That statement overshadowed Lisa's victory. Fans were angry because Angelie was a fan favorite and Lisa was not.

I got so much backlash after winning all stars.

Oh my god.

Everyone thought that I paid somebody off, that I blackmailed somebody, that I just stole her, when that it was undeserving.

It's like, you don't know my story.

Nobody knew my story, nobody knew what I.

Had gone through my whole life leading up to that point. It was so devastating to get the backlash again when I went on that show to redeem myself, and the way that they also weaponized this whole finale that also really hurt me as well.

Lisa was the villain all over again. I think that's why she clings to this story that she was always going to be the winner. Whether it's true or not, it eases the sting of her win being Angelie's misfortune. Lisa may have gotten the America's Next Top Model title and one hundred thousand dollars, but she never got to redeem her image. She still gets hate mail to this day.