Bridget Armstrong

represented her being country, her not being refined, right?

And so I do think to a certain extent it was for the entertainment to see if she could do it.

But I think that like Tyra didn't see her gap as beautiful because to her it represented a lack of access, right?

It represented Dani being a working class Black girl, right?

But on the other contestant who she later widened her gap, she was a white contestant, that then for her connected to

models and actresses, white models and actresses who support their gap and is celebrated.

So sometimes, I mean, I don't even know what's worse, right?

Like there's the arbitrary nature of let me pick this thing because I think it'll be entertaining, right?

But sometimes I just think it was Tyra projecting her insecurities or projecting her hangups and her respectability on some of these women.

And that doesn't just play out in the makeovers.

But I think Dani is such a great example of Tyra sort of resenting Black women who didn't embody the same respectability that she did.

Yeah, it is.

So one thing we uncovered, we spoke with a sound guy.

He worked on A&M for, like, 22 of the 24 seasons.

And he was working on Cycle 4 when the We Were Rooting For You thing played out.

And he saw the entire confrontation.

A lot of it got cut.

So what we saw, the we were rooting for you, we were all rooting for you, how dare you, was just a bit of what was said.

He told us that Tyra got really, really personal in a way that

Crossed a line.