.png)
2 hours ago
2 ARTICLE AD
Embattled Emilia Peréz star and Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón appeared in an hour-long, unauthorized CNN en Español interview Sunday morning, in which she broke down in tears and ranted at various points about her resurfaced racist and Islamophobic tweets.
Initially reiterating many of the same points in her Instagram apology posted yesterday, Gascón reiterated that she is “not racist” and offered her “most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended for the way I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future.”
She continued later: “I believe I have been judged, I have been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.”
Deadline has confirmed that Netflix was not involved in setting up the CNN interview and was not aware it was taking place.
In an interview that jumped around topics considerably, with interviewer Juan Carlos Arciniegas often unable to get a word in, Gascón discussed her “marvelous daughter” who she said has taught her “important values” and that she relates to the struggle of Black people.
“I feel and very much identify with the people who were thrown off buses for the color of their skin, with the people who did not want them to study at university, for the people who were hated simply for existing, like how I am hated in this moment,” she said.
Gascón occasionally broke down in tears, citing a “relationship with a wonderful woman who is a Muslim who has taught her about respect and to understand perhaps better than in the past.”
At another point, Gascón brought up her brother who died when she was 20: “When I was very little, my brother died in an accident on Christmas, and I have always held a resentment toward human beings of all spectrums because it seems to me that human beings are something deplorable but something in which I have incredible hope.”
She went on to say that she has always received hate, for example for wearing earrings or a skirt, and being called anti-gay slurs for being trans. Additionally, she said she has faced hatred from some people in Mexico for being Spanish, claiming they called her a “Spanish woman who came again to rob them of gold.”
Later, Gascón referenced the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which she said left a mark on her: “It affected me to see two days before some people praying inside the train who were very similar to the people who later carried out these attacks.”
Amid tears, she said also: “I have not stopped receiving hate, death threats, insults, abuses. I have not seen anyone who has come out, in any media, any space, any place, raise their hand for me and say, ‘Hey, what is happening with this person who you are massacring?’ And no one, no one has lifted a single finger for change.”
Watch the interview, in Spanish, below:
More…
