The backlash towards Emilia Peréz star Karla Sofia Gascón’s offensive tweets continues — and she or he’s not precisely doing a superb job of quieting it, both.
After all, by now you in all probability know that journalist Sarah Hagi lately uncovered a whole lot of offensive tweets that Karla — who’s at the moment nominated for a Greatest Actress Oscar — despatched between 2020 and this 12 months.
If she’s anticipating help from her costars, it isn’t taking place (but, at the least). Yesterday, Zoe Saldaña distanced herself from Karla’s tweets in a Q&A, saying that your complete state of affairs “makes me actually unhappy as a result of I don’t help [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any adverse rhetoric in direction of individuals of any group.”
Within the new assertion, Karla claims that “THEY ALREADY WON” earlier than asking “for essentially the most honest forgiveness from those that really feel dangerous about the way in which I’ve expressed myself at any stage of my life.”
She additionally talked about working towards Nichiren Buddhism over the past decade as altering her “for the higher” and added, “Though I’ve not dedicated any crimes I used to be not good both, I’m not even good now. I simply attempt to be taught and be a greater individual day-after-day.”
Then, she struck a extra defensive tone (once more). “They’ve already gained, they’ve achieved their goal, to stain my existence with lies or issues taken out of context,” she wrote.
“Anybody who is aware of me is aware of that I’m not a racist (you can be shocked once you discover out that one of the essential individuals in my present life and that I like essentially the most is Muslim) nor any of the issues for which I’ve been judged and condemned with out trial and with out choice to clarify true intention; I’ve all the time fought for a extra simply society and for a world of freedom, peace and love. I’ll by no means help wars, non secular extremism or the oppression of races and peoples.”
“They’ve created posts as if it had been me insulting even my colleagues,” she added. “Issues that I wrote to glorify as in the event that they had been criticisms, jokes as in the event that they had been actuality, phrases that with out the background solely look like hate. Every little thing so long as I don’t win something and I sink.”
Karla ended her assertion with a quote from her mom: I care little or no whether or not you win something, I simply care about you being okay and that nobody will hurt you.” “Mom, this life has put me right here to ship a message of hope and like to this world, I’ll do it,” she added.
Will this new assertion make issues higher? I am betting it will not…and I additionally suppose it is secure to say that we’ll be speaking extra about this story within the days to come back. We’ll see!