Karla Sofía Gascón on her cancellation: "I felt like I was in the Inquisition."

Two months after the Oscars, Karla Sofía Gascón is still keen to talk about the personal repercussions of the resurgence of racist and xenophobic messages she shared on social media years before becoming world famous thanks to . During his visit to the program This Tuesday, the actress, who saw her chances of winning an Oscar fade after the messages were made public, said she even considered "disappearing." "We were doing very well, we were doing phenomenally because for me we made a wonderful film, with incredible performances.

It's been three years of my life dedicated to this wonderful project," Gascón began to explain about how she was facing awards season before the controversy erupted. "It rained on wet ground. Many factors came together and all of this meant that we were receiving criticism from all sides," she reflected.



"There were people who wanted to destroy the film and, to destroy the film, they had to destroy me. Transphobic people joined forces with far-right people, who can't even stand trans people," she said on the set of Ante. scourge that must be confronted: "Social media is not real people.

" Furthermore, she also argued that it is "absurd" that she is called racist, although in different He attacked the Black Lives Matter movement, the diversity of the Oscars, the "fucking Moors," the Chinese community, the "drug addict swindler" George Floyd, and also the Catalans. During the interview, the actress acknowledged that during this image crisis she reflected on the meaning of life, a position she also expressed in the letter of apology she published in the American media. "Walking along the Seine, tears in my eyes, I truly thought that maybe the best thing to do would be to disappear.

There are times in life when you say, 'Why am I in this world?'" the actress said. Gascón halted those thoughts when she remembered that she couldn't leave her 14-year-old daughter alone. And also because she saw how dirty the Seine water was.

"Imagine lying down in the cold, enduring the cold until you die, and then being rescued in the end and left with the bacteria in the river; that would be the worst," she said jokingly, to applause from the audience. To illustrate how he felt at the time, Gascón made a comparison that has caused a stir on social media: "I felt like I was in the Inquisition." This idea came to him after entering a small church next to Notre-Dame.

"I went in and thought I understood what happened to that person [Jesus Christ], because I felt a bit like that," he said. The phrase has been widely shared and criticized on X, as some users believe it is an unfortunate and exaggerated simile. "In less than a month, Karla Sofía Gascón has said that she is less racist than Gandhi and less of a Vox fan than Echenique, and she has compared herself to Jesus Christ," said one X user.

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