"Bachelorette" star Jenn Tran is sharing racism she's experienced to explain why the slur that got Cierra Ortega kicked off "Love Island" is harmful.

Cierra has left the villa. In Sunday night’s episode of Love Island USA, contestant Cierra Ortega unceremoniously left the series “due to a personal situation.”

Love Island USA” says contestant Cierra Ortega has left the show “due to a personal situation” during Sunday’s episode, just a week before the finale will air.

Peacock has not clarified why Ortega left the show, but her exit occurred amid online controversy over posts she allegedly made that included a derogatory term for Chinese people.

In this op-ed, writer Kaila Yu, the author of Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, argues that Love Island USA season 7’s apparent removal of Cierra Ortega due to her past usage of an anti-Asian slur is exposing how much of the general public is still dismissive of anti-Asian hate.

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

Belle-A is the only contestant to release such a strong statement condemning Cierra’s actions, but she isn’t the only one who has spoken out. When asked about Cierra’s exit during a TikTok live, Jeremiah Brown said he didn’t “condone no type of racial slurs.”

Hours after Cierra Ortega’s shock Love Island USA exit was aired, her parents broke their silence about the controversy that sent her packing. Taking to their daughter’s Instagram Stories in the late

Her departure followed weeks of uproar from viewers after old posts from Ortega resurfaced that contained a racial slur against Asian people.