Journalist Sara Hagi discovered Gascón’s history of racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on Thursday, days after Gascón became the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. While some of the since-deleted posts dated to 2016, she’d made others as recently as 2023.

"I have been judged and condemned without trial," the Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star writes after she made controversial remarks about Muslims and the murder of George Floyd

Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón continued to mount her defense in the aftermath of a series of past racist tweets resurfacing this week. Taking to Instagram this morning, Gascón acknowledged that she can “do better” but that her words have been corrupted.