‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón reveals she ‘contemplated the unthinkable’ after social media scandal

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The Hollywood Reporter of the controversy. “Absurd and even delirious accusations were thrown at me, which deeply hurt my spirit.

Things escalated to a point, and so quickly, that I couldn’t even breathe.”“Amid this unexpected, devastating storm, there have been moments when the pain has been so overwhelming that I contemplated the unthinkable.”“I harbored darker thoughts than those I considered in some of my previous, no less intimate and personal struggles,” Gascón said. “And I asked myself: if I, with all my strength and preparedness to deal with rage and rejection, am on the edge, what would have become of someone with fewer emotional resources to resist this onslaught?

Somehow, I made it. Others would not have survived this brutal winter I am about to wrap up.”Gascón admitted that her personal “storm” had calmed down, and “the worst has passed.”“I’ve learned that hatred, like fire, cannot be put down with more hatred,” she said. “Offenses cannot be erased with more offenses, and mistakes cannot clean up other mistakes, especially when lies and falseness proliferate all around and when all they send back to me is pure rage, blatant bullying, vexation, scorn and even death threats.She added, “Fortunately, I have kept my one inch of sanity to see the light at the end of this tunnel of hate and understand that I must be and do better, and correct my past faults, without engaging in more darkness.