Karla Sofía Gascón claims the viral tweet in which she appeared to call her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Selena Gomez a “rich rat” is completely fabricated.
“Of course that’s not mine,” Gascón said during a Saturday night interview with CNN en Español. “I have never said anything about my partner. I would never refer to her that way.”
Variety has learned that the CNN interview was set up by Gascón and not through Netflix, the distributor of “Emilia Pérez.”
Gascón came under fire last week after a series of controversial tweets on topics such as George Floyd, diversity at the Oscars and Muslims were rediscovered. Among the posts was one in which Gascón apparently said of Gomez: “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.” The quote drew attention from media outlets like People, but the Academy Award nominee now says that particular tweet wasn’t real.
The day prior, Gascón took to Instagram to share a lengthy response regarding the social media controversy, making similar claims about how her words were manipulated or taken out of context.
“They have already won, they have achieved their objective, to stain my existence with lies or things taken out of context,” she wrote on Saturday morning. “Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a racist (you will be surprised when you find out that one of the most important people in my current life and that I love the most is Muslim) nor any of the things for which I have been judged and condemned without trial and without option to explain true intention; I have always fought for a more just society and for a world of freedom, peace and love. I will never support wars, religious extremism or the oppression of races and peoples.”
