Gillian Michaels criticizes the “bigger loser” as a “terrible lie”

Gillian Michaels She stands alongside her decision not to participate in the new Netflix documentary about The biggest loser.

“Zero regrets not doing this because I was to suggest credibility simply for a terrible thing,” said Michaels, 51. Fox News In an interview published on Monday, August 25.

Celebrity fitness coach played the championship The biggest loser Intermittently between 2004 and 2014. The reality competition lasted for 18 seasons and ended in 2020. Suitable for television: the reality of the biggest loserThe Michaels is depicted as harshly towards the contestants and providing them with caffeine pills for weight loss.

Michaels took whether she would take legal action against Netflix, her colleague The biggest loser trainer Bob Harper Or the exhibition doctor, Doctor Robert Huzenga. (I previously claimed in an interview on August 19 with TMZ He was meeting with the lawyer Bian Friedman About her legal options. US weekly I arrived at Friedman.)

“To be completely honest with you, at the present time, I choose battles because there is a lot to fight,” she said in it Fox News interview. “I will deal with one of these things completely. The question is that you cannot fight 10 Goliath at the same time. So, I must determine what I want to be a legacy and that it will be the result of the battle I choose.”

Michaels said she was talking to original executives The biggest loser About the possibility of making their documentary.

“I may do it,” she said. “There is a talk about it. I may bear this path instead, and I think I don’t know that I will necessarily need to prosecute it because it is very time. It is very expensive.”

She claimed that the producers are “very upset” Suitable for television The documents called “literally merely lying to lying.”

US weekly I arrived at Netflix and Harper to comment.

Michaels Break its silence on Suitable for television Last week, a lawsuit in a post on Instagram said that “Dr. Huzena agrees to caffeine pills in many seasons of The biggest loser. Bob Harper did not only knew caffeine pills, and the “fat burner” was actually his proposal. I wanted to use my brand instead because it was more clean and had no more than 200 mg of caffeine (equivalent to a strong cup of coffee). “

It also claimed that the caffeine was “not banned” The biggest loser.

She added, “How some people are still lying like 1985 before the texts and email are something.” “The last text is the second text to another at all to Bob Harper. Take what you want.”

According to Michaels, I mentioned her text to Harper, 60, saying: “I really think it is without that so that you do not respond to my texts. This type of thing that always makes me very frustrated (in) our relationship.”

in Suitable for television, Harper and Michaels said “they were really close to TV,” but not actually. When Harper A massive heart attack In February 2017, it was claimed that Michaels did not reach him directly. “This is for me, I spoke volumes,” he said in documents.