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‘Love Island USA’s Cierra Ortega Addresses Villa Exit Over Racist Post: “I Genuinely Had No Idea That It Was A Slur”


Cierra Ortega has addressed her exit from Love Island USA after a social media post resurfaced where she used a racist slur.

“While I was in the villa, there were some posts that resurfaced from my past where I was very naively using an incredibly offensive and derogatory term,” she continued. The former contestant of the Peacock dating series was removed from the v illa on the episode that streamed on Sunday, with narrator Iain Stirling simply stating that she left “due to a personal situation.” Ortega asked Love Island USA fans to allow her “to grow with grace” from this experience and promised “to take strides to be better.”

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