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Karla Sofía Gascón is opening up about why she deactivated her X account and responding to the controversy surrounding her past social media posts. The best actress Oscar nominee shared a long statement exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter about why she chose to deactivate her account after critics surfaced inflammatory old tweets of hers weighing in on the 2020 murder of George Floyd, as well as decrying Muslim immigration in her native Spain and calling for a ban of, quote, "religions that go against European values."

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00:00Carla-Sofia Gascogne is opening up about why she deactivated her ex-account

00:04and responding to the controversy surrounding her past social media posts.

00:09The Best Actress Oscar nominee shared a long statement exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter

00:14about why she chose to deactivate her account after critics surfaced inflammatory old tweets of hers

00:19weighing in on the 2020 murder of George Floyd, as well as decrying Muslim immigration in her native Spain

00:24and calling for a ban of, quote, religions that go against European values.

00:28Gascogne's statement begins,

00:31I'm sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect neither my family nor me anymore.

00:37So at their request, I am closing my account on X.

00:40I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused, and harassed to the point of exhaustion.

00:45I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly, and who supports me in everything.

00:50Gascogne, the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for Best Actress,

00:54has faced abuse and death threats from anti-trans factions online.

00:57Her Oscar campaign has been framed in a progressive light,

01:00but the revelation of Gascogne's incendiary past positions has thrown her campaign into disarray.

01:05In her statement, Gascogne apologizes for her, quote, erroneous past opinions,

01:10chalking them up in part to the toxicity of social media.

01:13She went on to say,

01:14Perhaps my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or pure mistake.

01:18I apologize again if anyone has ever felt offended or in the future.

01:21Gascogne also suggested that the voices that have aligned against her

01:25could be part of a deliberate effort to scuttle her Oscar chances.

01:28She wrote,

01:29Forgive me because I keep going from one side to the other,

01:32and I cannot be responding to every single thing you bring up to try to sink me.

01:36It is clear that there is something very dark behind it.

01:39To read Gascogne's full statement, go to THR.com.

01:42This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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