Love Island USA‘s Yulissa Escobar is explaining what really happened when she was kicked off the show!
The 27-year-old took to her TikTok account to share her side of her departure from the villa on Thursday (July 3).
Early in season 7, it was announced that Yulissa had been removed from the show following racist remarks resurfacing online, but little context was said about the removal during the episode.
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A month after her removal from the villa, Yulissa shared the truth of how she left the show. She captioned the video, “Plot twist: I wasn’t dragged out in the dark. I walked out in broad daylight head high, lashes on. Here’s the real story.”
In the video, Yulissa revealed that she was getting to know the rest of the cast when she was approached by production.
“I had gotten called to the front and then I met one of the producers and they asked me to take my mic off,” Yulissa revealed in the video.
She went on to say that she was concerned something had happened to one of her family members. She said in the video, “They didn’t really tell me anything. They just said that a video resurfaced on the internet and it’s not looking too good. I didn’t really know what video or what I was saying or what I did.”
Yulissa said she later found out what the videos were: podcast episodes of her saying a racial slur on multiple occasions. She addressed the controversy in the video and said, “I get it. I said a word that I should have not said. But I wish I would have never said that. It is what it is. I can’t go back in time. I am sorry that I said that word.”
If you missed it, another Love Island USA cast member recently responded to comments about them online.
