Rarely do reality shows and Adolf Hitler mix, but the twain met when Tila Tequila ended up getting kicked off Celebrity Big Brother after the show learned about her past comments about the Nazis.
Yes, back in 2013, Tequila posted a picture of herself as Hitler (“Hitila”) on her Facebook page, accompanied by a blog post literally titled “Why I Sympathize With Hitler.” Here’s the picture in question:
A week later, Tequila posted a video online responding to the online uproar about the video, railing against the “Zionist Jewlluminati,” and saying of the photo she claimed her fans made, “To me, I didn’t realize it had a little subliminal message in there with a swastika on the hat or whatever.”
And that all brings us to the present, when the UK reality show apparently heard her talking about Hitler and discovered some of that past stuff. Channel 5 released a statement saying, “The views Tila had expressed, and permitted to remain uncorrected, are totally unacceptable and, accordingly, her continued involvement in the [program]
Tequlia then released a lengthy apologetic statement saying she never meant any of it and was just going through a rough time. Here’s her statement in its entirety:
Back in 2013 I made a statement about Hitler not being a bad person, and immediately realized soon after that I had made a terrible mistake that would ultimately come back to haunt me. During that time I had been suffering from severe depression, and drug addiction for many years prior to that. I also attempted to commit suicide in 2012, and overdosed on prescription pills. I wanted to die. I felt worthless, and unloved as that pain continued to grow causing me to further spiral out of control. Losing touch of myself, and reality. It was absolutely the lowest point I had ever reached in my life, and today I am truly sorry to everyone that I may have hurt along my self-destructive path. I have made many mistakes that I am definitely not proud about, but I am only a flawed human who is trying my best to be a better person than I was in the past. I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible, wreckless, and selfish actions and I hope that everyone can forgive me for the pain that I may have caused. I want to be a good role model for my daughter because I don’t want her to go through what I have had to endure. I hope that
I will be given a second chance at life to make things right again. We all make mistakes in life, and I have unfortunately made many in the public eye. Although I cannot do much to change my past mistakes now, I can however, try to make things right from this moment forward, and be the best person that I can be. I am in no way, shape or form a racist nor antisemitic, and absolutely 100% not a Nazi supporter. It was a careless mistake I made in 2013 while suffering severe depression, drug addiction, and suicidal. That is not the woman have grown up to be today, and the loving mother that I have become. I humbly ask for forgiveness from everyone I may have hurt or offended. I just want a second chance at life to start over, and be given a chance to fix my wrongs. It will be a work in progress, but I want to do this so that my daughter will be proud of me one day, and have a positive, strong role model in her life and that starts with me. I hope that Celebrity Big Brother will give me a second chance.
[image via s_bukley]
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