Alannah Keyser is latest fired 'Love Island USA' contestant to apologize for using a racist slur

Another erstwhile bombshell has apologized for past usage of a racist slur that got her ousted from the villa.

Fired “Love Island USA” contestant Alannah Keyser posted a video to TikTok connected Saturday addressing a past video that showed her utilizing the N-word arsenic she sang on to the Roddy Ricch opus “The Box.” On Friday, Peacock confirmed to The Times that Keyser had been dismissed from the deed world dating amusement aft the resurfaced video began circulating online.

“I bash privation to statesman by addressing the video of maine singing on to a Roddy Ricch opus that contains a radical slur,” Keyser says successful her video. “I’m atrocious to whoever has seen that video and has been offended by it; that was ne'er my intention. The video is from six years ago, and that connection is conscionable not successful my vocabulary anymore.”

A USC movie pupil from Miami, Keyser besides addressed immoderate of the different societal media chatter astir her that had been making the rounds anterior to her dismissal. Included were accusations of racism owed to screenshots of her alleged usage of the racist slur connected Snapchat and Instagram arsenic good arsenic observations that alleged she had interacted little with Black men connected the show.

She said those screenshots had been “falsified.”

“What has been shared does not bespeak the truth, and it’s ne'er been successful my quality to discriminate against anybody’s tegument color,” Keyser said. “I bash privation to accidental straight that I bash not enactment racism oregon favoritism of immoderate kind, and I ne'er have.

“When I archetypal recovered retired that these things were going astir online, it truly broke my heart, and I couldn’t bash thing astir it. But this has decidedly been a learning acquisition for me, and it sucks that I didn’t get a accidental to truly amusement my property and who I am,” she added.

In the caption of her TikTok video, Keyser wrote that “reality tv is HEAVILY edited & [her] chats/kisses with the different boys were unluckily not aired.”

Keyser was the 2nd “Love Island USA” contestant who was dismissed from the amusement this play aft video of them utilizing the N-word surfaced connected societal media. Earlier this month, Peacock axed Oregon-based quality technician Vasana Montgomery conscionable days aft it announced its slate of Islanders for the show’s eighth season. She has since apologized, saying, “There is nary excuse” for her usage of the slur.

Last year, contestants Cierra Ortega and Yulissa Escobar were dismissed from the amusement for their usage of racist slurs. Ortega had been caught repeatedly utilizing a derogatory slur for Chinese radical (and Asian radical successful general) connected societal media, portion Escobar had utilized the N-word successful a mates of podcasts. Both person since apologized.