Karla Sofía Gascón is speaking out.
The actress has been shrouded in a LOT of controversy over the last week as several racist and xenophobic posts on X (Twitter) have resurfaced… One of which allegedly being about her Emilia Pérez co-star Selena Gomez!
On Friday, The Latin Times reported that one of Sofía’s several resurfaced Tweets was in reference to a photo of the Single Soon singer and Hailey Bieber reuniting at the Annual Academy Museum Gala in October 2022 amid their Justin Bieber drama. Per the outlet, Sofía allegedly posted:
“She’s a rich rat who plays the poor bitch whenever she can and will never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend and his wife”
Whoa!
What’s worse is she had allegedly announced on the very same social media platform earlier in the year that she would be starring alongside Selena in Emilia Pérez — meaning she already would have known she would be working with Selena when she posted the alleged comments. Not cool.
She’s since deactivated her X and apologized for some of her comments… But not for the one about the Only Murders in the Building star. Instead, she outright denied it!
In an interview with CNN en Español on Sunday, the 52-year-old claimed the post was fabricated in attempt to further fuel backlash:
“Of course that’s not mine. I have never said anything about my partner. I would never refer to her that way.”
Hmmm. Well, she did say some pretty harmful other stuff… And on that note, she addressed the internet sleuths who uncovered her posts:
“I start thinking about where this comes from. They have dedicated themselves to searching, to put together all the things that I had said at a time that I had written — most of which are false.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, she argued “most of them I don’t even recognize that I wrote them.” We don’t know if that’s the strongest defense… But still, she suggested the recent revelations have been in an attempt to destroy her chances in the Oscars race:
“And they put them all together and so it seems that she is a very bad person and we remove her just when we can do the most damage, right in the voting period.”
You can watch her full interview (below):
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