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‘Top Model’ runway coach J. Alexander says stroke left him unable to walk
Miss J Alexander shares his stroke ordeal and recovery journey after spending five weeks in a coma and over a year hospitalized, revealing visits from ANTM colleagues but not Tyra Banks.
- In the Netflix docuseries Reality Check, Miss J Alexander disclosed he suffered a stroke on Dec. 27, 2022 that left him paralyzed and spent five weeks in a coma.
- Longtime ANTM runway coach Miss J Alexander explains he built his career teaching models to walk from the show's 2003 debut through 18 cycles and chose to share his survival and recovery in Netflix's Tudum.
- Former judges Nigel Barker, former ANTM photographer, and Jay Manuel, former ANTM creative director, visited Miss J Alexander in the hospital and later reunited with him on camera, describing the visit as emotional and praising his progress.
- Alexander has regained some speech and is relearning mobility as he works toward walking again, conveying hope about returning to the runway.
- The project, filmed last year and released Monday, sparked divided online reaction over Tyra Banks not visiting Alexander, though Alexander says she texted wanting to come.
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The Mercury news‘Top Model’ runway coach J. Alexander says stroke left him unable to walk
J. Alexander, a former runway coach on “America’s Next Top Model,” has revealed that he had a stroke that left him incapacitated for an extended period of time. He also shared that the show’s executive producer and star Tyra Banks never visited him during the dark period. In “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model,” a new documentary series about the rise and fall of the wildly popular reality competition, the reality star best known as …
America's Next Top Model’s Miss J Alexander Says Tyra Banks Hasn’t Seen Him Since His 2022 Stroke, Coma
Former America's Next Top Model judge Miss J Alexander said in new Netflix documentary that Tyra Banks hasn't seen him since his 2022 health scare, which included a five-week coma.
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