Beverly McClendon of Atlanta, Georgia filed a $3 million lawsuit last October 8 against Tyra Banks who, without her permission, has let her 15-year-old daughter appear on the 2009 teen sex addicts episode of the Tyra Show.

McClendon claims in her lawsuit that without her knowledge, the show has contacted her daughter through cell phone, when the teenager responded to their call for "sex addicts" on the show's website. She was then picked up by a limo from their home in Georgia, flown to New York and billeted in a hotel. Unaware of her daughter's whereabouts, McClendon filed a missing person report with the local police.

Suing for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages through a jury trial, McClendon claims that her daughter has never been diagnosed as a sex addict and that the show had caused her daughter to suffer damages as it "was undoubtedly watched by sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles." It also asks the court that the episode not be allowed to air again on television or online.

Scot Rowe, Warner Bros. Television Group spokesman, says that Warner Bros. Entertainment and the executive producers of the show who are also defendants in the lawsuit, have no comment on the matter. No response was also given on Bank's side.