βLove Island USAβ fans donβt seem to be buying former contestant Alannah Keyserβs newest apology for her previous use of a racial slur, which ultimately led to her dismissal from the show.
In a TikTok video on June 27, Keyser addressed a resurfaced clip, in which she was seen using a racial slur while singing the lyrics to the 2019 Roddy Rich song βThe Box.β Keyser told viewers that the video was βfrom six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.β
βIβm sorry to whoever saw that video and has been offended by it,β Keyser said in the TikTok video. βThat was never my intention.β
Keyser, a 21-year-old film student from Miami, also said that she doesnβt support βracism or discrimination of any kind, and I never have.β
βThis has definitely been a learning lesson for me, and it sucks that I didnβt get a chance to really show my personality and who I am,β she said.
Peacock did not immediately respond to TODAY.com requests for comment.
The video has received thousands of comments from viewers, many of whom said they found her apology insufficient.
βGenuinely the worst apology Iβve ever seen,β said one TikTok user, who received more than 12,000 likes for the comment.
Keyser, who joined the show as a Casa Amor bombshell during the June 21 episode of the steamy series, stopped appearing on the program after the June 25 episode, Peacock confirmed to TODAY.com. The new video is her first that addresses the controversy. Several fans criticized her TikTok apology, saying that the racial slur was never acceptable to use, and that she should have known better six years ago.
βTo be saying that in 2020 is actually even more wild,β said another TikTok user.
Others took issue with the way in which she appeared to avoid kissing cast members KC Chandler and Sincere Rhea, who are both Black, during the showβs heart rate challenge. Keyser did not address her behavior in the challenge during the apology video, but wrote in the caption that her βchats/kisses with the other boys were unfortunately not aired.β
βthis falls completely flat when we literally saw her discriminate against the black men on the cast. we have eyes girl,β one X user said.
Another X user wrote that βItβs not just the fact you said the word, itβs also how you visibly treated the black male contestants differently.β
Keyser is the latest in a string of βLove Island USAβ cast members who were removed from the show after major controversies. Vasana Montgomery, for example, was featured in an introduction video for Season 8, only to be dismissed from the cast the next day after clips of her using a racial slur resurfaced. And in Season 7, cast members Yulissa Escobar and Cierra Ortega were both separately removed after their previous use of racial slurs came to light.