Selena Gomez breaks silence after co-star Karla Sofia Gascon called her a ‘rich rat’ in resurfaced tweet

Selena Gomez has broken her silence after her Emilia Perez co-star, Karla Sofia Gascon, called her names in an unearthed tweet.

Selena Gomez has broken her silence on the controversy surrounding her Emilia Perez co-star, Karla Sofia Gascon.

The transgender actress came under fire after a series of her controversial past tweets were unearthed online in which she made offensive and racist remarks.

One past tweet even took aim at Gomez, with Gascon calling the former Disney star a “rich rat” who is obsessed with her ex Justin Bieber and his wife, 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,” read Gascon’s since-deleted tweet from 2022.

Selena Gomez weighed in on the controversy at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at on February 9. Picture: Presley Ann/Getty Images for DAOU Vineyards

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While Netflix, the streamer’s CEO Ted Sarandos and Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard have all distanced themselves from Gascon, Gomez has maintained her silence – until now.

Speaking during a Q&A at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on February 9, the actress responded when asked how she is holding up amid the scandal surrounding the Netflix film.

“I’m really good,” she replied. “Some of the magic has disappeared, but I choose to continue to be proud of what I’ve done, and I’m just, I’m just grateful and live with no regrets.”

“And I would do this movie over and over again if I could,” she added.

Emilia Perez co-star Karla Sofia Gascon called Gomez a “rich rat” in a resurfaced tweet. Picture: Natasha Campos/Getty Images for Netflix

Last week in an apology to CNN, Gascon claimed that the tweet about Gomez is fake.

“Of course that’s not mine,” she said during the interview, which she allegedly did without Netflix’s approval.

“I have never said anything about my partner. I would never refer to her that way.”

In the same interview, Gascon denied she was racist and said she would not stand down from her Academy Award Best Actress nomination.

“I cannot step down from an Oscar nomination because I have not committed any crime, nor have I harmed anyone,” she said.

“I am neither racist nor anything that all these people have tried to make others believe I am.”

Their co-star Zoe Saldana has also called the scandal “disappointing”. Picture: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art

Co-star Zoe Saldana, who is also nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, has also weighed in on the controversy, saying that she’s “disappointed”.

“I’m sad. Time and time again, that’s the word because that is the sentiment that has been living in my chest since everything happened,” Saldana said in the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast.

“I’m also disappointed. I can’t speak for other people’s actions. All I can attest to is my experience, and never in a million years did I ever believe that we would be here.”

Netflix’s Spanish-language musical crime drama has received 13 Oscar nominations, making it the most nominated non-English language film in Academy Awards history.