Tyra Banks has spoken out about Gabrielle Union's controversial exit from America's Got Talent. Union was reportedly fired after complaing about a toxic work environment that included racist and sexist instances. Banks – who hosted the show from 2017 and 2018, told Yahoo!, “What I love about what she did is she was very vulnerable. I wasn’t super close to it, but I saw some of her tweets. I thought it was maybe beautiful… how she wasn’t speaking in anger, she’s speaking in pain like ‘I’m trying to get through this… and I’m crying.'”
She continued, “I just thought that was really beautiful. Because a lot of the times in entertainment, you have to put up this front – I’m strong, and I’m this and I was wronged. She was so vulnerable… And I also thought that it was beautiful that her husband really supported her as well.”
As for her own time on the show, she said, “I almost kind of like dipped my toe in and left, so I’m not really immersed in the culture. Like people ask me about Victoria’s Secret, I can wax poetic about that — I was there for 10 years.”