Karla Sofía Gascón has released another apology addressing her tweets.
The 52-year-old Emilia Pérez actress, who recently made history as the first openly trans person ever to be nominated in an acting category at the Oscars, came under fire earlier this week after her past controversial and offensive tweets resurfaced.
She has already released one apology for the tweets and deleted her X, formerly known as Twitter, account in the wake of the scandal.
Now on Saturday (February 1), Karla posted a second, lengthy apology on Instagram.
Keep reading to find out more…“THEY ALREADY WON. The first thing I’d like to do is ask for the most sincere forgiveness from those who feel bad about the way I’ve expressed myself at any stage of my life,” Karla wrote in Spanish, which Variety translated. “I have many things to learn in this world, the forms [in which I learn] are my biggest defect. Life has taught me something I never wanted to learn: it’s clear to me that no matter how much my message is my message, without using the proper words, [the message] can convert into another.”
“I have gone from living a normal life to a life at the top of my profession in just six months, now my responsibility is very great because my voice not only belongs to me but to many people who feel represented and hopeful by or with me,” she continued.
Karla went on to write that in recent years, she has relied heavily on Nichiren Buddhism as a guiding principle in her life, and believes that it has changed her and “those who surround me for the better.”
She also admitted that she’s “not the same person” she was a decade ago due to the religious shift, adding, “Although I have not committed any crimes I was not perfect either, I am not even perfect now. I just try to learn and be a better person every day.”
“They have already won, they have achieved their objective, to stain my existence with lies or things taken out of context,” Karla wrote. “Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a racist (you will be surprised when you find out that one of the most important people in my current life and that I love the most is Muslim) nor any of the things for which I have been judged and condemned without trial and without option to explain true intention; I have always fought for a more just society and for a world of freedom, peace and love. I will never support wars, religious extremism or the oppression of races and peoples.”
She continued, “They have created posts as if it were me insulting even my colleagues. Things that I wrote to glorify as if they were criticisms, jokes as if they were reality, words that without the background only seem like hate. Everything as long as I don’t win anything and I sink.”
Karla closed out her message by quoting her mother, who told her, “I care very little whether you win anything, I just care about you being okay and that no one will harm you.”
Karla shared her response, which was, “‘Mother, this life has put me here to send a message of hope and love to this world, I will do it.’”
If you missed it, Karla‘s Emilia Pérez co-star Zoe Saldana broke her silence on the situation.
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