Karla Sofia Gascon Defends George Floyd Tweet

Astoundingly, Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is nonetheless making an attempt to defend herself within the wake of the 2025 Oscars season’s largest scandal.

Certainly, ever since journalist Sarah Hagi unearthed a trove of offensive previous tweets — principally relationship from 2019 to 2024 — the Finest Actress nominee has unleashed an unceasing stream of quasi-apologetic, mostly-defensive statements.

The first apology arrived on Thursday night time, and it was rapidly adopted by a longer assertion on Friday morning that, amidst a number of makes an attempt to apologize additional, revealed that she’d deleted her Twitter account and insinuated that the resurfaced tweets are a part of a coordinated marketing campaign to harm her Oscar possibilities.

Yesterday, Karla launched an even longer assertion on Instagram, insisting she is “not a racist” and claiming that “They’ve already received, they’ve achieved their goal, to stain my existence with lies or issues taken out of context.”

In that assertion, Karla additionally claimed that “They’ve created posts as if it have been me insulting even my colleagues” — which was presumably alluding to an alleged tweet through which she known as Emilia Pérez costar Selena Gomez a “wealthy rat.”

Through the interview, Karla broke down in tears a number of instances as she — in keeping with her earlier statements — alternated between providing contrition and defending the tweets themselves.

Regarding the alleged Selena tweet, Karla claimed that it was “not mine.” “I’ve by no means stated something about my accomplice. I might by no means consult with her that means,” she claimed, earlier than alluding but once more to a plot towards her by saying “I begin desirous about the place this comes from.”

She additionally addressed her tweet referencing George Floyd, who was murdered by former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020. This is the wording for those who hadn’t seen it already: “I actually consider that only a few individuals ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, however his demise has served to focus on as soon as once more that there are those that nonetheless think about Black individuals to be monkeys with out rights and those that think about the police to be murderers. All flawed.”

“He was an individual who had been in a really troublesome scenario in his life and nobody had helped him, and out of the blue he turns into a logo of a trigger and everybody beloved him,” Karla stated in the course of the interview whereas trying to justify the tweet. “However for somebody to assume that…I’ve ever insulted an individual due to their pores and skin coloration, I don’t permit that to anybody, to anybody.”

Karla additionally defended a number of previous tweets that expressed anti-Islam sentiments, together with one which known as for a ban of the faith totally. In accordance with THR, she clarified that her sentiments have been in opposition to “radical Islam,” and she or he cited her relationship with a Muslim girl “whom I am keen on, whom I really like and who has taught me a lot about respect for individuals.”

Through the interview, Karla was additionally requested if she would “surrender” her Oscar nomination in gentle of the endless and more and more self-inflicted controversy. “I can not surrender a nomination as a result of what I’ve completed is a job and what’s being valued is my appearing work,” she said.

“And I can not surrender a nomination both as a result of I’ve not dedicated any crime nor have I harmed anybody, I’m not a racist, nor am I something that each one these individuals have taken it upon themselves to attempt to make others consider that I’m.”