"Love Island USA" contestant Cierra Ortega is owning up to the racial slur that got her booted from the show -- but while she ...

The Chicago native, who is of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent, said her post “not an apology video,” but rather “an ...

Former “Love Island USA” contestant has released a video apologizing for previously using a racial slur against Asian people.

"I do want it to be known that I genuinely had no idea that it was a slur," the content creator said in a video.

Former “Love Island USA" reality contestant Cierra Ortega addressed her prior use of an anti-Asian slur just days after she ...

Love Island USA’s Cierra Ortega apologizes after resurfaced posts with racial slurs spark backlash, her exit, and mass ...

Former "Love Island USA" reality contestant Cierra Ortega used her social media platform to apologize for her use of an anti-Asian slur. NBC News' Shaquille Brewster explains how Ortega was abruptly ...

Peacock has not clarified why Ortega left the show, but her exit occurred amid online controversy over posts she allegedly ...

Cierra Ortega apologized for using a racial slur in past social media posts following her firing from "Love Island USA." ...

The week of June 30, the internet exploded when resurfaced Instagram posts of Cierra’s showed her using a racial slur against ...

During Sunday’s episode of the Peacock reality series, narrator Iain Stirling announced that Ortega had “left the villa due ...

Cierra Ortega has left 'Love Island USA,' becoming the second contestant this season to exit the reality series over past use of a racial slur.