Published 08:38 IST, February 1st 2025 Karla Sofia Gascon, of Oscar-nominated Emilia Perez, revealed receiving hate and death threats after her controversial posts re-surfaced on the internet. Karla Sofia Gascon, who is running in the Best Actress race for the movie Emilia Perez in the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, has deactivated her X (formerly Twitter) account amid controversy. This comes after she apologised for offensive posts that resurfaced on Thursday.
Gascon recently faced backlash after netizens discovered posts from 2020 and 2021 that had controversial views on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars. All you need to know about the controversy Karla Sofia Gascon is embroiled in..
. A few days ago, several X (formerly Twitter) posts resurfaced where she reacted on George Floyd's murder, ensuing racial reckoning, her views on Muslim immigration, calling for a ban of “religions that go against European values," and critiqued the diversity of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. She called George Floyd a "drug addict swindler" after he was killed by a police officer in 2020 and inspired protests around the U.
S. She also called out the Oscars in her post that reads, "More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn't know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.
" Karla Sofia Gascon apologises for her controversial statements In a statement .
