If you’ve been following this entire saga since journalist Sarah Hagi unearthed the trove of tweets — mostly dating from 2020 to this year — earlier this week, you know that the situation has entered full-on damage control territory. Costar Zoe Saldaña distanced herself from Karla’s tweets in a Q&A yesterday, saying that the entire situation “makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group.”
Karla, meanwhile, has issued a whopping three statements on the matter — each one longer than the last. On Thursday night, she offered an apology of sorts, and on Friday morning she deactivated her Twitter account and issued a longer statement that, amidst several attempts to apologize further, insinuated that the resurfaced tweets are part of a coordinated campaign to hurt her Oscar chances.
Just a few hours ago, Karla released an even longer statement on Instagram, insisting she is “not a racist” and claiming that “They have already won, they have achieved their objective, to stain my existence with lies or things taken out of context.”
So, let’s zoom in on that statement for a second. At one point, she claims that “They have created posts as if it were me insulting even my colleagues,” which insinuates two things: One, that the posts themselves (which, while they were up, were very clearly real and not fabricated) have been at the very least distorted in meaning, and two, that there were apparently posts circulating (real or fake) about people that Karla has worked with.
Selena is, as you probably know, one of Karla’s costars in Emilia Peréz. And, according to a report from the Latin Times, Karla allegedly had a prior tweet that referenced Selena too — and not in a nice way.
The alleged tweet dates back to 2022, in which Karla allegedly quote-tweeted a news story about Selena and Hailey Bieber.
“She’s a rich rat who plays the poor bastard whenever she can and will never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend and his wife,” Karla allegedly tweeted. She doesn’t name Selena specifically, but if the tweet is real, it’s not too hard to figure out who she’d allegedly be talking about.
OK, grain of salt time. Tweets are fabricated online all the time — and given that this particular alleged tweet involves Selena Gomez, a celebrity who the internet generally refuses to act normal about, as much as the tweet seems to be in line with Karla’s other tweets, it also seems equally possible that this particular tweet is, as Karla has suggested, not real.
Of course, it would be easier to tell if the tweet actually existed if Karla hadn’t deactivated her account — which very well could’ve been her intention in doing so. At any rate, we’ve reached out to Karla and Selena’s reps for comment and we’ll let you know if we hear back.