Miss J Alexander On Who Showed Up For Him After His Stroke

Miss J Alexander claims that Tyra Banks has but to go to him following the stroke that left him wheelchair-bound in 2022.

The previous “America’s Next Top Model” choose opened up about the place he stands together with his former boss within the newly-released Netflix docuseries, “Actuality Examine: Inside America’s Subsequent High Mannequin.”

Within the emotional reveal, Miss J confirmed that former co-stars Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker did present up at his hospital bedside to assist him throughout his restoration.

And because the runway icon continues to replicate on his therapeutic journey, hypothesis can also be mounting concerning the potential return to tv of “ANTM.”

Miss J’s misfortune started on December 27, 2022, when he suffered a stroke that rendered him unable to stroll.

Talking within the new Netflix docuseries, he recalled the traumatic occasions. “I had a stroke,” he stated. “I awakened, I did not know the place I used to be, apart from the hospital.”

Revealing the total gravity of the ordeal, Miss J defined that he spent greater than a month in a coma.

“I spent 5 weeks in a coma. I could not stroll, I could not discuss,” he recounted.

The mannequin additionally addressed his relationship with Banks, noting that though she expressed curiosity in visiting, she has but to take action.

“She simply despatched me a textual content that she desires to come back and go to me,” stated Miss J. “However no, not but.”

Whereas Miss J says Banks has but to come back verify in on him, the beloved runway coach has not been with out assist from outdated “ANTM” colleagues.

Amongst these stated to have visited him throughout the early days of his restoration are Manuel and Barker.

Each “America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” alumni mirrored on the emotional toll of seeing their longtime pal hospitalized.

“It was simply such a horrible shock, and actually upsetting and horrifying and scary,” Barker stated. “I do not know whether or not he even needed me to see him in that means.”

Regardless of the severity of his situation, creators of the Netflix sequence say Miss J made one factor clear throughout manufacturing: he did not wish to be portrayed as a determine of pity.

Administrators Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan recalled assembly the previous “America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” choose for the primary time after his stroke.

In an interview with Netflix Tudum, Sivan defined that their early conversations formed the way in which his story was finally advised within the sequence.

“What was necessary isn’t framing Miss J as a survivor,” the director stated. “He isn’t his well being. At the beginning, he is a diva who simply shattered each single glass ceiling.”

One other bombshell to emerge from “Actuality Examine: Inside America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” was Banks’s suggestion that the present could also be headed again to tv.

“I really feel like my work isn’t accomplished. You haven’t any concept what we now have deliberate for cycle 25,” Banks stated, in line with Entertainment Weekly.

The long-running modeling competitors wrapped its twenty fourth cycle in April 2018. A couple of years later, Banks was already expressing curiosity in bringing the present again to air.