Jillian Michaels stands by her resolution to not take part in Netflix's new documentary about The Greatest Loser.
“Zero regrets about not doing it as a result of I'd have merely lent credibility to one thing that's an egregious lie,” Michaels, 51, advised Fox News in an interview revealed Monday, August 25.
The movie star health coach starred on The Greatest Loser intermittently between 2004 and 2014. The truth competitors ran for 18 seasons and resulted in 2020. Earlier this month, Netflix launched the three-part docuseries Match For TV: The Actuality of The Greatest Loser, which depicted Michaels as behaving harshly towards contestants and supplying them with caffeine tablets to shed some pounds.
Michaels addressed whether or not she would take authorized motion in opposition to Netflix, her fellow Greatest Loser coach Bob Harper or the present's doctor-in-residence, Dr. Robert Huizenga. (She beforehand claimed in an August 19 interview with TMZ that she was assembly with legal professional Bryan Freedman about her authorized choices. Us Weekly reached out to Freedman.)
“To be completely trustworthy with you, for the time being I'm selecting my battles as a result of there are quite a bit to battle,” she mentioned in her Fox Information interview. “I'll completely tackle certainly one of these. The query is, you'll be able to't battle 10 Goliaths on the similar time. So, I've to find out what I need my legacy to be and that's going to be a results of which battle I decide.”
Michaels mentioned that she's speaking with the unique government producers of The Greatest Loser about probably making their very own documentary.
“I would try this,” she mentioned. “There's discuss of that. I would take that path as an alternative, and I feel I don't know that I'm essentially going to want to sue as a result of it's very well timed. It's very costly.”
She claimed that the producers are “very upset” by Match For TV and known as the docuseries “actually simply lie upon lie.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Netflix and Harper for remark.
Michaels broke her silence on Match For TV final week, alleging in an Instagram submit that “Dr. Huizenga did approve caffeine tablets on many seasons of Greatest Loser. Bob Harper not solely knew concerning the caffeine tablets the ‘stackers fats burner' had been truly his suggestion. I needed to make use of my model as an alternative as a result of they had been cleaner and had not more than 200mg of caffeine (equal to a powerful cup of espresso).”
She additionally alleged that caffeine was “NEVER banned” on The Greatest Loser.
“Wild how some of us nonetheless lie prefer it's 1985 earlier than texts and e-mail had been a factor,” she added. “And, the final picture is my second to final textual content ever to Bob Harper. Take from it what you'll.”
Based on Michaels, her textual content to Harper, 60, allegedly acknowledged, “I actually suppose it's s***ty of you to not even reply to my texts. It's this sort of factor that at all times makes me so disillusioned [in] our relationship.”
In Match For TV, Harper mentioned that he and Michaels “had been actually shut on tv,” however not a lot in actuality. When Harper had an enormous coronary heart assault in February 2017, Michaels allegedly didn't attain out to him immediately. “That to me, spoke volumes,” he mentioned within the docuseries.
