Karla Sofa Gascon Disables Account at X after rescue of old posts: ‘Hate and Disinformation’

The main actress of “Emilia Perez”, a film has 13 Oscar nominations, said she was the target of a campaign of hatred and misinformation after the rescue of old tweets in the X, before Twitter.

After the great repercussion, Karla Sofa Gascoon disabled her account on the platform, which makes access to your page and posts make it impossible. In a statement sent to The Hollywood Reporter, she said she could no longer allow her and her family to be such attitudes.

“At the request of my family, I am ending my X account. I was threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed until exhaustion. I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love so much and who supports me in everything.”

In publications, the actress attacked Islam, George Floyd and Oscar diversity policies themselves, among other issues.

Karla is the first trans actress to be nominated for the Academy’s best performance award. In a previous statement and publicized to the international press, she apologized for the posts and says she always fought for a better world.

“I want to recognize the repercussion of my previous posts on social networks, which caused pain. As someone from a marginalized community, I know this suffering very well and I’m sorry for the pain I caused. I believe that light will always triumph over darkness,” he concluded.

In one of the tweets, the artist shares controversial opinions about the murder of George Floyd, a victim of police officers in the United States who became a symbol of struggle and caused a series of demonstrations regarding police violence.

“I really think very few people cared about George Floyd, a drug -addicted conveyorist, but his death served to demonstrate once again that there are still people who consider blacks as monkeys without rights and consider police officers as killers,” he says She in a post made in November 2020.

On another occasion, also in 2020, Karla questions the “increased Muslims” in Spain, her home country. “Every time I get my daughter at school, there are more women with covered hair and skirts to her heels. Next year, instead of English, we will have to teach Arabic.”