"It was incredibly painful to have that celebration kind of really tainted for me. I have no hard feeling toward John Davidson at all—he has a condition. I feel like Bafta has a lot of lessons to learn, but it felt exploitative and performative to have someone there without the full protection of everyone, including him, and anyone in that audience."
"Then the BBC is a whole other thing—That's the bit that really kind of kept me awake at night and brought tears to my eyes. I was like, you really chose to keep that in. I can't understand it. I can't understand it and I'm not sure I can forgive it."
"The BBC apologised twice, with its chief content officer Kate Phillips telling staff she was so sorry that a racial slur was not edited out of our broadcast and that she understood how distressing this was, and announced a fast-track investigation into what went wrong."
Wunmi Mosaku, winner of best supporting actress at the Baftas, expressed deep pain over a racial slur incident that occurred during the ceremony on February 22. Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson shouted multiple slurs, including the N-word, while presenters were on stage. The BBC initially failed to edit out the audible slur from its broadcast, only removing the episode from iPlayer after a day. Mosaku criticized both Bafta for inadequate protections and the BBC for choosing to keep the slur in the broadcast. She stated the incident kept her awake at night and questioned whether she could forgive the BBC's decision. The BBC subsequently apologized and launched an investigation, with sources indicating producers didn't hear the slur during live broadcast.
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