Karla Sofía Gascón Says Publish About ‘Emilia Pérez’ Costar Selena Gomez Is Faketheinsiderinsight

Karla Sofía Gascón is insisting she by no means insulted her Emilia Pérez costar Selena Gomez on social media.

After a number of of Gascón’s outdated X posts resurfaced, drawing allegations of racism and Islamophobia, the Academy Award-nominated actress, 52, sat down with CNN en Español for an emotional interview. Within the hour-long dialogue, which aired Feb. 2, Gascón’s apologized for the outdated posts — however maintained that the alleged feedback about Gomez, 32, have been fabricated.

Addressing the controversial tweet, by which she reportedly referred to as Gomez a “wealthy rat” amid the performer’s rumored feud with Hailey Bieber, Gascón advised CNN, “It’s not mine, after all.”

In response to The Latin Times, the alleged put up says in full: “She’s a wealthy rat who performs the poor b—— at any time when she will and can by no means cease bothering her ex-boyfriend and his spouse,” referring to Gomez’s ex Justin Bieber and spouse Hailey,

Gascón, nonetheless, insists that these phrases didn’t come from her. “I’ve by no means stated something about my colleague,” she advised CNN. “I’d by no means confer with her that approach.”

PEOPLE has beforehand reached out to each Gomez and Gascón for remark.

In her tearful CNN interview, Gascón additionally steered that the allegedly pretend put up could have been an try and purposefully injury her Oscar marketing campaign amid the continuing voting interval — a declare that got here after she revealed that she wouldn’t be exiting the award-show race.

Folks “have devoted themselves to looking out, to place collectively all of the issues that I had stated at a time that I had written — most of that are false … most of them I don’t even acknowledge that I wrote them,” the star claimed. “They usually put all of them collectively and so plainly she is a really dangerous particular person and we take away her simply once we can do probably the most injury, proper within the voting interval.”

Discussing her choice to remain within the Oscar race regardless of the backlash for her controversial posts about Muslim tradition, George Floyd, range on the Oscars and extra, Gascón advised CNN, “I can’t resign a nomination as a result of what I’ve carried out is a job and what’s being valued is my appearing work,” per a translation by The Hollywood Reporter.

“I can’t step down from an Oscar nomination as a result of I’ve not dedicated any crime, nor have I harmed anybody,” she continued. “I’m neither racist nor something that every one these individuals have tried to make others consider I’m.”

And, addressing her resurfaced posts in a Jan. 30 assertion to PEOPLE, Gascón stated: “I need to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have induced harm. As somebody in a marginalized group, I do know this struggling all too nicely and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve induced ache. All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider mild will at all times conquer darkness.”

Gascón’s Emilia Pérez costar Zoe Saldaña mentioned the controversy surrounding the actress at a latest Q&A in London.

“I’m nonetheless processing every part that has transpired within the final couple of days, and I’m unhappy,” Saldaña, 46, stated on the Jan. 31 occasion, per THR. “It makes me actually unhappy as a result of I don’t assist [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any damaging rhetoric in direction of individuals of any group.”

“I can solely attest to the expertise that I had with each person that was a component, that may be a half, of this movie, and my expertise and my interactions with them was about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender fairness,” Saldaña continued. “And it simply saddens me.”

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Gascón is nominated within the Finest Actress Oscar class for her position in Emilia Pérez alongside Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres. The Netflix musical is up for 13 awards whole (together with Finest Image and Finest Director for Jacques Audiard) on the March 2 ceremony, making it the most-nominated movie of the yr.