A former contestant on the singing competition show The X Factor claims in a new lawsuit her failed audition particularly stung because she didn’t deserve it.
In a complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Sally Hessnice, who auditioned for the show in front of a live audience in May 2013, says the producers of the series manipulated the recording of her performance to depict her poorly. She’s suing the production companies , but not the networks ITV (in Britain) or Fox, which aired her audition in the U.S. in September 2013.
Her complaint says that her voice was altered to sound screechy and unprofessional, the positive audience reaction was replaced with footage of an uninterested one, and the judge’s original comments were re-filmed to show a negative response.
