Bridget Armstrong

And that's a really low blow anyway.

But it's particularly low when you think about the fact that Tyra is making millions of dollars off of these girls.

And these girls are not even being compensated for their time on the show.

Most of them are not going to go on to have a career or opportunity in the modeling world.

So that scene got just really ugly and really personal.

Tyra likes to say that, you know, she admits she lost her cool.

She went too far.

But she likes to talk about it as if it was coming from a place of tough love.

that she really wanted Tiffany to win.

And I do think there's some truth in that, going back to Tyra's love of respectability.

What a feat to be able to show that you turned this ghetto black girl into a world-class supermodel, right?

And when Tiffany didn't perform in the way that Tyra wanted her to, I think she lost it.

But not because she cared so much, but because this was the storyline that she was betting on.

And I'll tell you,

Same as you.

It was like a meme, a funny thing, something I might say.

It's like, you know, my friend is late and I'm like, girl, we were rooting for you.

But when I rewatched it with the context I have and even just thinking about it from Tiffany's standpoint of being like this young black girl who's being produced and pushed and pulled to have...

Tyra, a fellow Black woman, talked to you in that way and also misread your probably frustration, your fear, all of those things to misread that is like a lack of concern or like not caring about this opportunity.

It had to be heartbreaking because I think