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America Age > Blog > Entertainment > ‘Love Island USA’ Contestant Cierra Ortega Apologizes for Racial Slur After Exit
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‘Love Island USA’ Contestant Cierra Ortega Apologizes for Racial Slur After Exit

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‘Love Island’s Cierra Ortega
I Deserved To Be Punished
After Racial Slur

Revealed July 10, 2025 5:35 AM PDT
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Up to date July 10, 2025 6:10 AM PDT


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Cierra Ortega is proudly owning the racial slur that received her booted from “Love Island USA” — and says she agrees with manufacturing’s choice to chop her from the present.

In a prolonged video and written assertion she shared on Instagram Wednesday night, Cierra says she’s been again house for 48 hours and is able to deal with herself “very naively using an incredibly offensive and derogatory term.”

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Before everything, she apologizes to the Asian neighborhood and everybody she offended, including …”I had no idea that the word held as much pain, as much harm, and came with the history that it did or I never would have used it.”


Whereas she says she had “no ill intention” when utilizing the time period, she concedes there’s “absolutely no excuse because intent doesn’t excuse ignorance.”

Relatively than profusely apologizing, Cierra says she’d reasonably take accountability for her actions … and even reveals receipts of a earlier dialogue with a follower who referred to as her out for utilizing the time period in query.

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She says she was “embarrassed” by her ignorance and instantly deleted the submit, including … “The word was immediately removed from my vocabulary.”

Reflecting on the 2024 training concerning the phrase, she notes … “It was a true learning moment for me I think since that moment, I’ve done so much growing as an individual, and I’ve tried my best to educate others who might be accidentally holding space for these types of words that could be offensive in their vocabulary.”

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Though she says she’s put within the work to develop, the advertising skilled confirms she is in full assist of Peacock’s choice to tug her from the present. She causes …”I think that this is something that deserved punishment, and the punishment has absolutely been received, for sure.”

She admits it has been “extremely, extremely difficult” to look at folks lash out on her household for her actions — together with calling ICE on them.

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Talking on to those that are irate she’d use such a time period, Cierra provides … “If you want to know that you are heard and that I’m sorry and that I will move differently, I promise you that’s what will happen.”

The Arizona native shared her assertion 2 days after arriving again house from the villa in Fiji … however by then, her household had already spoken out concerning the “cruel” hate they had been receiving and begged the general public to present their daughter grace.

Cierra’s exit from “Love Island USA” Season 7 was introduced throughout the July 6 episode and labeled as a “personal situation.”


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Her exit got here a month after Yulissa Escobar was kicked to the curb after her personal racist feedback had been found.

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