Karla Sofía Gascón is the transgender star who was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars this year for the movie Emilia Pérez, before being unceremoniously ‘canceled’ for ill-advised tweets.
If fans are wondering what kind of effect that’s had, Gascón has said that it’s been depressing enough to contemplate suicide.
Gascón Reemerges To Fight For Mental Health
Gascón is the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. However, she was effectively erased from Netflix’s Oscar campaign for Emilia Pérez after old tweets of resurfaced that some deemed to be racist. Some of the tweets in question pertained to sensitive topics like George Floyd and to religions like Islam.
Gascón sat out much of the rest of the award season, though she did attend the Oscars last week, ultimately losing to the Anora star Mikey Madison.
But now that this awards season is over, Gascón wants to open an “honest discussion” about mental health. She’s determined to do this for her daughter and “future generations.”
“In this last episode, the most talked about and most exposed of my life, several fake accounts were created in my name to add to the pain and confusion,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of the controversy. “Absurd and even delirious accusations were thrown at me, which deeply hurt my spirit. Things escalated to a point, and so quickly, that I couldn’t even breathe.”
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Gascón ‘Contemplated The Unthinkable’
“Amid this unexpected, devastating storm, there have been moments when the pain has been so overwhelming that I contemplated the unthinkable,” Gascón continued. “I harbored darker thoughts than those I considered in some of my previous, no less intimate and personal struggles.”
“And I asked myself: if I, with all my strength and preparedness to deal with rage and rejection, am on the edge, what would have become of someone with fewer emotional resources to resist this onslaught?” she added. “Somehow, I made it. Others would not have survived this brutal winter I am about to wrap up.”
Gascón concluded by saying that “the worst has passed” of this unexpected “storm” that she was hit with.
“I’ve learned that hatred, like fire, cannot be put down with more hatred,” she said. “Offenses cannot be erased with more offenses, and mistakes cannot clean up other mistakes, especially when lies and falseness proliferate all around and when all they send back to me is pure rage, blatant bullying, vexation, scorn and even death threats.
“Fortunately, I have kept my one inch of sanity to see the light at the end of this tunnel of hate and understand that I must be and do better, and correct my past faults, without engaging in more darkness,” Gascón stated. “Otherwise, if I play their game, and reciprocate and amplify all that hate others project on me, I will get lost; I will never move forward, and I won’t be able to keep helping others still stuck in the storm.”
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Gascón’s Old Tweets
Heading into this Oscar season, Gascón had been considered a potential frontrunner to win Best Actress. Her chances came crashing down, however, when naughty tweets resurfaced.
In one of these tweets, Gascón argued against Islam, saying that “until we ban religions that go against European values and violate human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of freedom of worship, we will not end part of the huge problem we face.”
Another 2020 post came just after the death of George Floyd. Gascón allegedly wrote, “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.”
There was even one 2021 post in which Gascón ripped into the Oscars. At the time, she likely never thought she’d be vying for one of the awards just four years later.
“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,” this Oscars tweet read.
In the end, only time will tell if Gascón will be able to bounce back from this scandal and whether society will stop cancelling people for old opinions they disagree with.
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