Bridget Armstrong

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.

So Tiffany was, at that time, a single mother.

She talked about coming from a working class background.

She lived in, I think, a housing project with her grandmother.

She talked about sleeping on a mattress on the floor.

And so this was part of her storyline, right?

This girl comes from nothing.

This ghetto girl is on the show, and let's see if she can make it.

That's a part of her storyline.

But apparently...

Tyra brought that up in the confrontation and said, like, what are you going to do, go back home and sleep on the mattress on the floor with your baby?