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‘Love Island USA’ Contestant Cierra Ortega Apologizes for Using Racial Slur

Love Island USA contestant Cierra Ortega has addressed her removal from the hit dating reality show.

In a four-minute video posted to Instagram, Ortega said now that she has had the “chance to process” what happened, she is able to speak about the incident “without being highly emotional because I am not the victim in this situation.” The former contest also claimed that following the backlash, her family “had ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] called on them,” has received death threats, and no longer “feel safe in their own home.” Shortly after her removal from the villa, her parents posted a statement to her Instagram account pleading for “compassion, for patience, for basic human decency” from the show’s viewer base.

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