‘Emilia Peréz’: Oscar Best Actress Nominee Karla Sofia Gascón Explains Deactivating Her X Account As Controverisal Old Tweet Resurface

X has gotten too hot for Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón.  24 hours after scandalous old tweets by the “Emilia Pérez” star started surfacing on the social media platform, the actress deactivated her X account, providing a statement to THR today as to why.  It’s another wave of controversy in what’s quite a fiery Oscar campaign for Jacques Audiard‘s film, which leads nominated movies with 13 total nods.

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“I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect me and my family, so at their request I am closing my account on X,” wrote the nominee in her statement. “I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion. I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything.” The rest of Gascón’s statement included apologies for past social media posts with “erroneous” opinions, cited the toxic elements of X in particular, and questioned the motivations of those circulating her old tweet. “It is clear that there is something very dark behind it,” she determined.

Deleted tweets from the actress began to circulate late Thursday before Gascón deactivated her account, including one where she alluded to Hitler while speaking about racial and gender equality. Other controversial tweets that resurfaced included ones about the 2020 murder of George Floyd, Muslim immigration in Spain (Gascón’s native country), and one that calls for a ban of “religions that goes against European values.” Gascón defended herself in her statement to THR, claiming, “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.”

“Emilia Peréz’ has courted controversy since its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last May. Gascón shared the Best Actress prize at the festival with her fellow co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz, and it wasn’t long before the transgender actress started receiving abuse and death threats from various anti-trans groups. Gascón has attempted to frame her Oscar nomination in a progress light in recent weeks, but her old tweets resurfacing complicates her “Light will always triumph over darkness” sloganeering. The fallout over the past day has been immediate, and given that some tweets deride Gascón’s co-star Gomez, it’s likely to get even worse.  

That trouble may spell doom for Netflix, the distributor for “Emilia Peréz,” who hope they have a Best Picture winner in the film. But both the streaming giant and Gascón look to weather the storm with the Oscars just over a month away. For her part, Gascón signed her statement to THR with “NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO,” a Japanese phrase in Nichiren Buddhism that translates to “Devotion to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra.” A heartening message from the actress, but not one X users looking to spark further conflagrations are likely to hear.

Read Karla Sofía Gascón’s entire statement to THR below, translated from Spanish.

I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect neither my family nor me anymore, so at their request I am closing my account on X.

I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion.

I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything.

I had long ago made the decision to close a social network [sic], which has taken a terrible turn, in which I have also sometimes fallen, and for which I apologize.

As part of this society, I have expressed my disagreement or agreement with all the related issues that have touched me and of which I have had an opinion, often erroneous, which has changed throughout my own experience. I have always used my social media as a diary, reflections or notes, to later create stories or characters, not as something that would be scrutinized down to the last of its 140 characters, since sometimes I, myself, am not even aware of having written something negative.

I have defended each and every one of the minorities in this world and supported freedom of religion and any action against racism and homophobia in the same way that I have criticized the hypocrisy that underlies them, because the first thing I am critical of is myself.

You will never hear me support a war, an injustice, extremism or applaud anyone who oppresses other human beings.

Perhaps my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or pure mistake. I apologize again if anyone has ever felt offended or in the future.

I am a human being who also made, makes and will make mistakes from which I will learn. I am not perfect. Taking my words out of context or manipulating them to hurt me is something I am not responsible for.

I am only responsible for what I say, not for what others say I say or what others interpret from what I say.

I hope to have the opportunity to give a more extensive explanation at some point.

Forgive me because I keep going from one side to the other and I cannot be responding to every single thing you bring up to try to sink me.

But if you want, you can continue attacking me as if I were responsible for hunger and wars in the world. I apologize again if I have ever offended anyone with my words in my life.

I am only Karla Sofía Gascón, an actress who has reached where very few have thanks to her effort and work, without stealing or harming anyone in this world, just trying to get them to let me live in peace, love and respect, something that seems to bother a lot of people in this world.

It is clear that there is something very dark behind it.

But I tell you something: “The more you try to sink me, the stronger it will make me. The greater the victory will be.”

Please forgive me once again if any of my words hurt you.

Sincerely, Karla.

NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO