Karla issued a lengthy statement to The Hollywood Reporter's entertainment website explaining why she's deactivating her X account. The 2025 Academy Awards took to another level of excitement as Oscar Best Actress nominee Karla Sofia Gascon deactivated her X (formerly known as Twitter) after critics shared old tweets on social media. Karla issued a lengthy statement to The Hollywood Reporter's entertainment website explaining why she's deactivating her X account.
The star of the Oscar-nominated film "Emilia Perez" also apologized for her old tweets, adding that she also received threats and abuse to her exhaustion. “I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect me and my family, so at their request I am closing my account on X,” said Karla, the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an acting award. "I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused, and harassed to the point of exhaustion.
I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything," Karla also said. The THR reported that among her old tweets include weighing in on, among other things, the 2020 murder of George Floyd and ensuing racial reckoning, as well as decrying Muslim immigration in her native Spain and calling for a ban of “religions that go against European values.” "Emilia Perez" is nominated for 13 Oscars, making it a Best Picture front-runner.
The 2025 Oscar Awards will be held in Los Angeles, Cali.