{"id":318529,"date":"2026-03-02T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:22:09","slug":"tourettes-syndrome-activist-john-davidson-apologizes-again-after-baftas-slur-incident-2026-baftas-john-davidson-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318529\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourette\u2019s Syndrome Activist John Davidson Apologizes Again After BAFTAs Slur Incident | 2026 BAFTAs, John Davidson | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Davidson<\/a> is speaking out and apologizing once again.<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old Tourette\u2019s Syndrome activist, who yelled a racial slur at the 2026 BAFTA Awards<\/a>. issued an apology for the incident.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting all week until the dust settles after the weekend at the BAFTAs in London,\u201d he began on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to thank each and every one of you who have shown love, support and solidarity towards myself and the rest of the Tourette\u2019s Community. Your kind words and support have got me through a very difficult week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst I will never apologies for having Tourette syndrome, i will apologise for any pain, upset and misunderstanding that it may create. This past week has been tough, and has reminded me that what I do raising awareness for such a misunderstood condition, there is still a long way to go and I will keep on keeping on until this is achieved,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankyou Thankyou Thankyou I love you all.\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f Johnny D x\u201d<\/p>\n

BAFTA\u2019s EE Rising Star winner Robert Aramayo<\/a>, who plays John in I Swear, also won for Best Actor for the role.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the movie synopsis: \u201cDiagnosed with Tourette\u2019s at age 15, John Davidson faced and overcame many hardships from adolescence and early adulthood as a result of what was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980\u2019s Britain. I Swear is a funny, heartfelt and moving account of John\u2019s experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, he also opened up in his first interview about why he decided to attend the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards<\/a> despite the risk of an outburst in the middle of the show, which did happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Davidson is speaking out and apologizing once again. The 52-year-old Tourette\u2019s Syndrome activist, who yelled a racial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-318529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}