Miss J Alexander, better known as “the queen of the runway”, has been undergoing a challenging health crisis for the past few years, and he has finally spoken up about his very private battle. On Netflix’s new docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the iconic ANTP coach opened up for the first time about a stroke that changed his life forever. Shockingly for fans, Miss J revealed that her once close friend, longtime ANTP host Tyra Banks, never visited her after this health crisis. Here’s what happened.
Miss J opens up about his paralysis after suffering a stroke
In the Netflix docuseries, which premiered on Monday, February 16, 2026, Miss J opened up about his jarring health crisis in late 2022, one that left him paralyzed. The modelling coach and reality star shared that he had to spend five weeks in a coma after suffering a stroke, and he was unable to walk or talk. He shared in the series:
“On December 27, 2022, I had a stroke. I spent five weeks in a coma, and I couldn’t walk, and I couldn’t talk. And I thought to myself, what was I going to do? I couldn’t walk; I couldn’t speak… It was emotional, I cried. I’m not ashamed to say I cried.”