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(NewsNation) — Former "The Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels says determination are "numerous lies" successful the new Netflix docuseries connected the beloved world show.
Michaels joined Thursday's "On Balance" to sermon the allegations made against her and the show, 2 days aft saying she would sue.
"When I heard astir the documentary, I thought cipher would care. I was, like, nary one's going to attraction astir this," Michaels said of “Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser," released by Netflix connected Aug. 15.
She doesn't recognize wherefore the docuseries has travel to be, but Michaels says, "Netflix was highly effectual successful their selling strategy, similar 'Jillian is specified a ruthless b****.'"
Michaels says each contestants were allowed an unlimited measurement of caffeine connected the amusement and "caffeine pills were really allowed and distributed by the doctor's aesculapian unit connected campus."
Michaels says she has the emails to beryllium it, and that she disagreed with the removal of caffeine pills successful the mediate of 1 season, and alternatively sought different means of getting immoderate contestants caffeine pills.
In hindsight, Michaels admits it was "wrong, and I instrumentality afloat work for this part." She believed astatine the clip that the controlled doses were amended than unlimited amounts of coffee.
"There were galore lies extracurricular of that 1 connected the show," Michaels said. "As a nationalist figure, you motion up for the criticism; you motion up for being a target. What you don't motion up for are the lies, and that's the portion that's perfectly unacceptable.
"With that said, wherefore present has the communicative shifted now? If I were to reply you arsenic honestly arsenic possible, due to the fact that it is simply a 'big food' psyop. It conscionable is level out; successful different words, this communicative of 'healthy astatine immoderate size' and derailing the shame of eating crappy food, and each of this comes from 'big food.'
"They adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to wage disconnected registered dietitians, to enactment these kinds of posts online and flood societal media with it, arsenic good arsenic bequest media and caller media. And they were successful, period. And I deliberation that's what's happened. It's a portion of our woke culture, but it truly is simply a 'big food' psyop up astatine the extremity of the day."
