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Karla Sofía Gascón on Deactivating X Account: “I Can No Longer Allow This Campaign of Hate and Misinformation to Affect My Family or Me”

"I am a human being who also made, makes and will make mistakes from which I will learn," the 'Emilia Pérez' star added in a statement translated from Spanish as she continued to apologize for anyone who was hurt. "I am not perfect."

Twenty-four hours into a controversy that has upended the 2025 Oscar race, best actress nomineeKarla Sofía Gascón has sent The Hollywood Reporter a long statement explaining why she chose to deactivate her X account after critics surfaced inflammatory old tweets of hers weighing in on, among other things, the 2020 murder of George Floyd and ensuing racial reckoning, as well as decrying Muslim immigration in her native Spain and calling for a ban of “religions that go against European values.” Gascón, the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an acting award, has faced abuse and death threats from anti-trans online factions since sharing the best actress prize at Cannes for her role as a Mexico cartel leader who transitions to live life as a woman. “I have defended each and every one of the minorities in this world and supported any event against racism, freedom of religion or homophobia, in the same way that I have criticized the hypocrisy that underlies them, because the first thing I am self-critical of is myself,” Gascón writes.

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