Thirty-nine year old Jodi Hughes was ecstatic when she discovered that her children, seventeen year old Jordan and ten year old Nick, had secretly submitted her name for a “Holiday Girl Party!” makeover on an episode of the Tyra Banks Show after she’d been diagnosed with Stage Four cervical cancer and lupus. Jodi has been left begging for an apology after what she claims was humiliation and mistreatment at the hands of Tyra.

From the moment the family of three stepped off of the plane, they sensed there would be trouble:

“Jordan and Nick-who is legally blind-were left sitting on a curb outside the studio lot for hours with no food, no phone, and no money while Jodi underwent her “transformation,”" according to a National Enquirer report.

Jodi says her highly-anticipated makeover turned out to be nothing more than “a new dress and a cheap, painful hair weave.”

In fact, Tyra’s hair weave sent Jodi to the ER:

“Her scalp became so badly infected from the hair extensions she received from the show that she had to have them surgically removed in the emergency room!”

The Bettendorf, Iowa native tells The National Enquirer:

“Do you know what it’s like to grow your own hair again after months of chemotherapy-only to have it all chopped off again? It’s devastating!”

Tyra later slammed the cancer survivor with a gag order and threats of litigation which prevented from publicly blasting the show for one year.

“We didn’t want a cent from them,” Jodi says. “All we wanted was an apology.”