Selena Gomez and her “Emlilia Perez” co-star, Karla Sofía Gascón, have been pressured to come back face-to-face on the 2025 Oscars — months after Gascón’s scathing remarks about Gomez.
The duo rubbed shoulders with the Hollywood elite on Sunday night time, the place Gascón was nominated for Greatest Actress however finally misplaced out to “Anora” star Mikey Madison.
The star-studded occasion got here simply weeks after a number of of Gascón’s’s previous social media posts resurfaced, through which she criticized Muslim tradition and George Floyd.
She even allegedly referred to as Gomez a “rich rat” earlier than being forged along with her in “Emilia Perez.”
In a now-viral change, Gascón — who skipped the pink carpet — was seen strolling over to Gomez, who was sat in her seat through the Oscars ceremony on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
As Gascón, 52, approached the “Love On” singer, Gomez stood up, and awkwardly kissed her co-star on the cheek earlier than sitting again down.
Evidently, the transient interplay was met with confusion from followers on social media.
“Selena should stop talking with her. Karla is disgusting after everything she did,” one individual wrote on X.
One other added, “Hm, not sure why a kiss was necessary after all of that??”
“Yikes. Well that’s awkward,” a 3rd added.
After Gascón’s alleged since-deleted tweet resurfaced on-line, web sleuths found that it was initially shared in 2022 after Gomez and Hailey Bieber got here collectively on the Annual Academy Museum Gala amid their alleged feud, based on the Latin Occasions.
Nevertheless, Gascón advised CNN en Español final month that the tweet about Gomez is faux.
“Of course that’s not mine,” Gascón mentioned through the interview, which she allegedly did with out Netflix’s approval.
“I have never said anything about my partner. I would never refer to her that way,” the actress added.
Gascón’s controversy loomed massive forward of Sunday’s Academy Awards, the place she was the first overtly transgender nominated performer.
Her co-star Zoe Saldaña, who received the Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar for “Emilia Perez,” beforehand mentioned that she’s “disappointed” over the drama involving her co-star.
Gomez, for her half, broke silence on Gascón’s alleged tweets final month, admitting that “some of the magic has disappeared” when she was requested how she’s doing after the ordeal.
“But I choose to continue to be proud of what I’ve done, and I’m just grateful,” Gomez mentioned.
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“I live with no regrets,” the Golden Globe nominee added, “and I would do this movie over and over again if I could.”
Throughout his opening monologue, Academy Award host Conan O’Brien poked enjoyable at Gascón’s social media controversy.
Noting that “Anora” — which picked up the highest awards on Sunday night time — used “the f-word 479 times,” O’Brien added, “That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascon’s publicist: ‘You tweeted WHAT?’”
““Karla Sofía Gascón is here tonight and Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel,” he added, as a cringing Gascón responded with a decent smile.
