By turns tearful and defiant, the 'Emilia Pérez' star told CNN en Español that controversial past tweets, which have thrown her Oscar campaign into disarray, were intentionally misrepresented and in some cases fabricated in a effort to scuttle her awards chances.

I haven’t killed a single fly," the Oscar nominee saidKarla Sofía Gascón insisted that she's "not a racist" in a candid TV interview about her resurfaced social media posts. The Oscar nominee, 52, sat down with CNN en Español for an hour-long conversation with anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas,

Journalist Sara Hagi discovered Gascón’s history of racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on Thursday, days after Gascón became the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. While some of the since-deleted posts dated to 2016, she’d made others as recently as 2023.

In her latest statement, Gascón attributes the above tweets to “ignorance or pure mistake,” apologizing to anyone who has taken offense. “I am a human being who also made, makes, and will make mistakes from which I will learn. I am not perfect. Taking my words out of context or manipulating them to hurt me is something I am not responsible for.”

Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón continued to mount her defense in the aftermath of a series of past racist tweets resurfacing this week. Taking to Instagram this morning, Gascón acknowledged that she can “do better” but that her words have been corrupted.

Continuing her efforts to repair her damaged reputation, embattled Best Actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón sat down with CNN en Español anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas for a nearly hourlong interview in which she broke down multiple times.