Tyra Sued for Airing Sex Addict

[Melissa]

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b206127_teen_sex_addict_gets_tyra_banks_in.html

Thoughts? Do you think the mom has a leg to stand on?

 

[Riven]

If I were this lady I'd be focusing more on the fact that my daughter was a sex addict, usually at that age it's a sign of a poor childhood, looking for acceptance, etc.

And yea, her daughter is gone for how long and she doesn't notice or what?

 

[3CsMommy]

Nope. Someone, somewhere, signed a consent form that let that child get on a plane and go on that trashy excuse for a talk show. That releases the producers etc. from responsibility, but making such a fuss about this might get this child and her mother on the radar of child protective services, which it sounds like the kid needs if she's able to leave for multiple days at a time without her (we assume) custodial parent/guardian noticing.

How long would it have taken her to realize her daughter was gone had the girl been kidnapped instead of exploited for ratings?

 

[greychins]

I have to agree w/ everyone.

Beverly McClendon is claiming that her daughter responded to an open call on the show's website last fall about teen sex addicts, and producers later flew the girl out to New York and put her up in a hotel without her mother's knowledge.

oooook. Bout that. I'm 25, but if I'm visiting/staying with my parents, they sure as heck notice when I leave. If I was to, oh, I dunno, manage to get out of the house without telling anyone where I'm going, make it to the airport, fly somewhere, do a tv show, fly back, and get home... my parents would notice I'm gone by the time I drove to the airport. Much less if I was 15...

 

[Ash]

If you look at the law suit, the mother didn't not notice the girl was gone. She filed a missing person's report with the police. It's very possible she left while the mother was at work, or told her mother she was going somewhere else, figuring by the time her mother figured out she'd lied, she'd already be in NY.

I'm not saying that her suing the show is right, but she DID notice. And the producer's better be able to find that consent form, and prove it's the mother's signature, otherwise they're going to be in a whole other heap of trouble for not validating the consent.

Don't most shows require a guardian along with a minor, though, anyway, to avoid problems like this?

And yeah, the mother does have bigger issues if her child really is a sex addict.