Oscar-nominated actress Karla Sofía Gascón has seemingly addressed her resurfaced comments calling her co-star Selena Gomez a "rat".
Ahead of the Oscars, Gascón has come under fire over old controversial tweets, including one from 2022 about Gomez, shared prior to starring in Emilia Pérez together.
"She's a rich rat who plays the poor bastard whenever she can and will never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend [Justin Bieber] and his wife," Gascón wrote about her future co-star at the time.
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Karla Sofía Gascón has seemingly address resurfaced comments about her co-star Selena Gomez. (Invision/AP/AAP)The comment were under a post of Gomez and Hailey Bieber amid their reported feud.
Now in a lengthy Instagram post, Gascón has asked for "the most sincere forgiveness from those who feel bad about the way I've expressed myself at any stage of my life."
"I have many things to learn in this world, the forms [in which I learn] are my biggest defect," the message, translated from Spanish to English, continued.
"Life has taught me something I never wanted to learn: it's clear to me that no matter how much my message is my message, without using the proper words, [the message] can convert into another."
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Later in the post, Gascón appeared to address her past comments about Gomez, claiming: "They have created posts as if it were me insulting even my colleagues."
"Things that I wrote to glorify as if they were criticisms, jokes as if they were reality, words that without the background only seem like hate. Everything as long as I don't win anything and I sink."
Gascón has been nominated in the Best Actress category at the upcoming 2025 Oscars for her role in Emilia Pérez.
The actress shared a lengthy statement on Instagram. (Getty)The star is staying in the Oscars amid her controversial resurfaced tweets.
In an interview with CNN's Juan Carlos Arciniegas, Gascón, who made history last month as the first openly transgender actress nominated for an Oscar in an acting category, once again offered her "most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended."
"I cannot step down from an Oscar nomination because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone. I am neither racist nor anything that all these people have tried to make others believe I am," Gascón told CNN.
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The controversy arose after journalist Sarah Hagi shared screenshots of Gascón's old social media posts, in which she was critical of Muslim culture, the death of George Floyd and the direction of the Oscars.
Gascón, who deactivated her account on X (formerly Twitter) following the controversy, apologised this week for her posts.
"I want to address the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused harm," Gascón said in a statement shared with CNN.
Gascón and Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez. (AP)"As a member of a marginalised community, I know this suffering all too well and deeply regret having caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe that light will always triumph over darkness," she continued.
The actress also criticised the 2021 Oscars ceremony, held amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The #Oscars are increasingly resembling an independent and vindicative film awards ceremony, I didn't know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration, or March 8th," she posted at the time.
Gascón is nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her role in Emilia Pérez, a Netflix musical and crime drama that tells the story of a Mexican drug trafficker seeking gender reassignment surgery, which has also generated much controversy, especially in Mexico.
Jacques Audiard, the French director of Emilia Pérez, defended the film in an interview with CNN en Español in January, saying, "If there are things that seem scandalous to Mexicans in Emilia, I apologise."
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