United Kingdom, March 1 -- Janice Dickinson has slammed Tyra Banks as a "hardcore b****".

A decade after the pair worked together on America's Next Top Model, Janice, 71, has claimed Tyra encouraged her to be cruel to the contestants and claimed Tyra was particularly harsh on Black models.

Speaking on E!'s Dirty Rotten Scandals, Janice said: "The producers, especially Tyra, were begging me to be harsher and cruel, like Simon Cowell was on American Idol.'

"Tyra didn't want any competition.

"She went off on one girl and it was so frightening that I was going to get up and hold her down.

"She would go harder on the Black girls on the show because of competitiveness and jealousy and her being older than these young women.

"She was alway...