Overview
- Miss J. Alexander, who appeared Sunday at the Titanique opening on Broadway, made his first red-carpet outing since revealing his stroke and paralysis and used a motorized wheelchair.
- He first shared his health crisis in Netflix’s Reality Check in February, tying his story to America’s Next Top Model’s legacy and new attention on the show’s controversies.
- He said he suffered a stroke on December 27, 2022, spent five weeks in a coma, and initially could not walk or speak.
- His speech has returned, but he remains reliant on a wheelchair after years of rehabilitation, and he says he is determined to walk again.
- Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker visited him in the hospital, he said Tyra Banks had not yet visited, and friends launched a GoFundMe that described additional mini-strokes, seizures, and four further hospital stays.