Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, nominated for an Oscar by ‘Emilia Pérez’, closed her account on social network X, at the request of her family, and denounced to be subject to a “hate and misinformation campaign” that does not go to continue consenting.
“They have threatened to death, insulted, violated and veiled until the exhaustion,” said Gascón in a statement sent to EFE after the controversy raised by some tweets published years ago, some of racist content and others in which he can criticize the own awards.
The actress, the second Spanish nominated for an Oscar after Penelope Cruz and the first trans, remember that she has a “wonderful” daughter to protect, whom he loves “madness” and supports him in everything.
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“I had made the decision to close a social network that has taken a terrible drift, in which I have also fallen, and for which I apologize,” he said in reference to the content of the messages made public by the magazine American Variety and reproduced by numerous means.
Gascón acknowledges that, as part of society, he has expressed his disagreement or agreement with certain issues of which he has had an opinion, “often erroneous, which has changed throughout my own experience”
”I have always used my social networks as a daily basis, reflections or notes, to later create stories or characters, not as something that would be scrutinizing until the last of its 140 characters, since sometimes I am neither I am aware of having written something negative, ”he explained.
The artist, who was also nominated for the Golden Globes, affirms that she has defended “each and every one of the minorities of this world and supported any event against racism, freedom of religion or homophobia, in the same way as I have criticized the hypocrisy that underlies them, because with the first one that I am self -criticism is myself. ”
He also said that they will never hear him support a war, an injustice, extremism or applaud anyone who oppresses other human beings.
“Maybe my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or for pure mistake, I ask forgiveness again if someone has ever felt offended or in the future. I am a human being who also committed, makes and will make mistakes from which I will learn, I am not perfect. Bringing on context or manipulating my words to hurt me is something that I am not responsible, ”he reiterated
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Gascón, who hopes to have the opportunity to give a more extensive explanation at some point, remember that he has come where he is thanks to his effort and work, “without stealing or doing anyone’s wrong” and that only tries to let her live in peace, Love and respect.
“It is clear that there is something very dark behind,” he denounced, but warned: “The more they try to sink the louder. Bigger will be victory. ”
The tweets published in recent hours come to swell a series of controversies, some that arose from the actress’s statements about alleged campaigns to discredit it in the race for the statuette
With EFE information
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