Karla Sofía Gascón, after the Oscars: "Others would not have survived this brutal winter that I am about to end"
The actress publishes a long statement detailing everything that has happened to her after the controversy over her racist tweets
Barcelona"In the midst of this unexpected and devastating storm, there have been times when the pain has been so overwhelming that I have considered the unthinkable. I have harbored darker thoughts than I had in some of my previous struggles, which were also intimate and personal. When pushed to the limit, what would have become of someone with fewer emotional resources to withstand that onslaught? Somehow, I have succeeded. It is a small part of the long letter that actress Karla Sofía Gascón (Madrid, 52 years old) has made public through the American media. The Hollywood ReporterThese are the first statements from the protagonist of the narco-musical Emilia Perez, after attending the Oscars gala. The actress, who made history by being thethe first trans actress nominated for an Oscar, generated a lot of controversy because some tweets in which he launched racist and Islamophobic messages: against the Black Lives Matter movement, against the diversity of the Oscars, against the "fucking Moors", against the Chinese community and the "drug addict scammer" George Floyd, who was murdered at the hands of the police, among other pearls.
The actress from Madrid in this long reflection admits that throughout her life she has said bad things that have offended others: "Things done and said from fear, from my own ignorance, from my own pain," she says. And she asks, explicitly, for forgiveness: "Without any excuse, and without any intention of justifying any of my past actions, I apologize to all those I have offended at any time in my life and throughout my journey. I humbly ask for forgiveness and, to honor your kindness and understanding, I promise that I am committed to committing myself. The actress also values her fight: to give visibility to the trans community.
The fake accounts
"Throughout the different stages of my life, I have gone through dark times, episodes where desperation took me to unexpected places. In this latest episode, the most talked about and the most exposed of my life, several fake accounts were created in my name to increase the pain and confusion. It spread so fast that I couldn't even breathe," she writes. "I have learned that hate, like fire, cannot be smothered with more hate. Crimes cannot be erased with more crimes, and mistakes cannot cleanse other mistakes, especially when lies and falsehood proliferate everywhere and when all they send my way is pure rage, bullying "blatant, humiliation, contempt and even death threats," she laments.
Karla Sofía Gascón quotes the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus: "There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," to make it clear that she has had a very bad time. that they would not have been able to endure what I have just endured." Finally, she asks for compassion: "Only through understanding, compassion, forgiveness and empathy can we build a world where difference is not synonymous with condemnation, but with wealth."
