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(NewsNation) — Former "The Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels says there are "numerous lies" in the new Netflix docuseries on the beloved reality show.
Michaels joined Thursday's "On Balance" to discuss the allegations made against her and the show, two days after saying she would sue.
"When I heard about the documentary, I thought nobody would care. I was, like, no one's going to care about this," Michaels said of “Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser," released by Netflix on Aug. 15.
She doesn't understand why the docuseries has come to be, but Michaels says, "Netflix was extremely effective in their marketing strategy, like 'Jillian is such a ruthless b****.'"
Michaels says all contestants were allowed an unlimited volume of caffeine on the show and "caffeine pills were actually allowed and distributed by the doctor's medical staff on campus."
Michaels says she has the emails to prove it, and that she disagreed with the removal of caffeine pills in the middle of one season, and instead sought other means of getting some contestants caffeine pills.
In hindsight, Michaels admits it was "wrong, and I take full responsibility for this part." She believed at the time that the controlled doses were better than unlimited amounts of coffee.
"There were numerous lies outside of that one on the show," Michaels said. "As a public figure, you sign up for the criticism; you sign up for being a target. What you don't sign up for are the lies, and that's the part that's absolutely unacceptable.
"With that said, why now has the narrative shifted now? If I were to answer you as honestly as possible, because it is a 'big food' psyop. It just is flat out; in other words, this narrative of 'healthy at any size' and derailing the shame of eating crappy food, and all of this comes from 'big food.'
"They even went so far as to pay off registered dietitians, to put these kinds of posts online and flood social media with it, as well as legacy media and new media. And they were successful, period. And I think that's what's happened. It's a part of our woke culture, but it really is a 'big food' psyop up at the end of the day."