Tyra Banks has accused Netflix of defamation over their docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.

The 52-year-old model has filed a lawsuit against the streaming service, alleging she has suffered "significant mental anguish" over the way she is portrayed in the docuseries, accusing producers of using just 16 minutes of a three-and-a-half-hour interview with her, which was shown as clips that were "stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed."

Court documents obtained by People magazine stated: "Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series America's Next Top Model ('ANTM') because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show's legacy - its successes and its shortcomings.

"There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ANTM viewers to hear that from her directly.

"Going into her interview, Ms. Banks did not limit the ANTM topics the interviewer could ask...

"The Netflix series Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model (the 'Netflix Series') was sold to viewers as a 'documentary series'.

"Netflix called it 'the definitive, must-watch chronicle of America's Next Top Model.' The genre matters. Viewers of a documentary do not expect manufactured drama or constructed narratives. They expect facts. Because they were promised a documentary, that is exactly how viewers interacted with the Netflix Series."

Tyra - who wants a jury to determine the "appropriate" amount she should receive in damages - claimed the accountability she took for some of America's Next Top Model's most controversial moments were edited out.

The lawsuit added: "Worse, the false narrative the producers constructed--through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage - included that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant's trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked.

"That narrative about Ms. Banks is a complete fabrication--one that Netflix streamed to a global audience of millions."

In her lawsuit, Tyra singed out two "partially true" statements made by Mor Loushy, one of the directors and executive producers of the Netflix series.

One was that she was given an "opportunity to really go deep into the debates" about the reality TV show - which she hosted from 2003 to 2018 - and to "share her side of the story." And she noted that in an interview, "Ms. Loushy said Ms. Banks 'was ready to speak, and I think that a lot of her answers were very honest. And it's all in the show, really.' "

The lawsuit stated: [Tyra] did share her side. Her answers were very honest. But the story that viewers heard was the deceptive story producers chose to tell."

In the Netflix documentary, cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan discussed her alleged sexual assault and accused the producers on ANTM of framing what had happened with a male model in Italy as a cheating scandal, rather than what she considered to be an assault.

Tyra was asked about Shandi and claimed she had no involvement in production or editing storylines, and in the lawsuit, she insisted she was unaware the contestant had felt she had been sexually assaulted.

Her documents stated: "The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show. But that was false.

"The full footage of Ms. Banks' interview reveals two things that the producers cut out and did not show viewers in Episode 1: before the upward glance, Ms. Banks nods--affirmatively, unmistakably--and immediately says, 'I do remember her story.' By carving the nod out of the middle of the sequence and cutting off Ms. Banks' comment at the end, the producers ensured that viewers would see only the lie and not the truth."

The lawsuit also addressed claims Tyra had production shut down during one cycle after a crew member reported a regular cast member had been involved in misconduct.

It stated: "That response would not have been hypothetical. It would have been 20 based on what Ms. Banks actually did during one cycle after a person on the crew reported directly to Ms. Banks that another regular member of the ANTM cast had engaged in a pattern of inappropriate sexual conduct during production of ANTM.

"Ms. Banks immediately shared the report with other executives and ensured the issue was escalated to the network.

"Ms. Banks acted promptly and gave the matter the serious attention it deserved. In response, production was paused so the entire cast and crew could undergo sexual harassment training conducted by an outside expert."

Because of what Tyra feels was a "false and defamatory" portrayal of her on the docuseries, she is suing for "damages, including loss of future business opportunities, loss of business income, other compounding losses as will be shown at trial. "