Yulissa Escobar, who was faraway from Love Island USA’s seventh season after recordings of her previous use of a racial slur resurfaced, revealed on Instagram on Friday that she has obtained dying threats.
“Individuals swear cancel tradition is about accountability,” she wrote in a prolonged June 13 Instagram caption. “However now it’s simply viral hate. Packaged for likes. Twisted into clickbait. A development for clout. 5 minutes of fame at another person’s expense. This week, I obtained dying threats. Messages saying I ought to kill myself. Throughout a video from 2021.”
The actual property skilled from Miami, Florida, added that any claims that the footage is definitely from 2024 are “lies” and that the footage doesn’t outline her.
“However how the web treats individuals? That claims every part,” she wrote. “This isn’t ‘woke.’ It’s abuse. You guys neglect there’s an actual particular person behind the display screen. With emotions, a household, a daughter, a sister, a future. And a few individuals don’t survive this type of hate. That’s the scariest half. Cyberbullying is violence. Interval.”
Escobar instructed Instagram followers that she’s rising and therapeutic and that nobody deserves to be erased over a mistake.
“For those who didn’t make it — might you relaxation in peace,” she wrote. “For those who’re scared to talk — I bought you. And for myself — as a result of I’m carried out staying quiet: My title is Yulissa Escobar, and that is not the place my story ends. One mistake doesn’t outline a human. And that second? Was 4 years in the past. I’ve clearly grown, and I’m simply getting began.”
Escobar beforehand apologized on Instagram for “podcast clips from years in the past.”
She wrote on the time: “In these clips, I used a phrase I by no means ought to’ve used, a racial slur. I used it ignorantly, not absolutely understanding the burden, historical past, or ache behind it. I wasn’t making an attempt to be offensive or dangerous, however I acknowledge now that intention doesn’t excuse influence. And the influence of that phrase is actual. It’s tied to generations of trauma, and it isn’t mine to make use of.”
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