Movie star Karla Sofia Gascon has explained why she’s decided to deactivate her X account.
Karla Sofia Gascon has deactivated her X account after facing a campaign of “hate and misinformation”.
The 52-year-old actress has decided to remove herself from the social media platform, after a series of old, inflammatory tweets resurfaced online.
The ‘Emilia Perez’ star – whose previously tweeted about a variety of political and social issues, including the 2020 murder of George Floyd – said in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect neither my family nor me anymore, so at their request I am closing my account on X.
“I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion.
“I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything.
“I had long ago made the decision to close a social network, which has taken a terrible turn, in which I have also sometimes fallen, and for which I apologise.”
Karla admitted that she never thought her old tweets would face so much scrutiny.
The movie star – who recently became the first trans person to be nominated for an Oscar – continued: “As part of this society, I have expressed my disagreement or agreement with all the related issues that have touched me and of which I have had an opinion, often erroneous, which has changed throughout my own experience.
“I have always used my social media as a diary, reflections or notes, to later create stories or characters, not as something that would be scrutinised down to the last of its 140 characters, since sometimes I, myself, am not even aware of having written something negative.
“I have defended each and every one of the minorities in this world and supported freedom of religion and any action against racism and homophobia in the same way that I have criticised the hypocrisy that underlies them, because the first thing I am critical of is myself.
“You will never hear me support a war, an injustice, extremism or applaud anyone who oppresses other human beings.
“Perhaps my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or pure mistake. I apologise again if anyone has ever felt offended or in the future.”
Karla Sofia Gascon says ‘hate campaign’ prompted X deactivation
