Jamie Foxx took to social media to criticize a moment that took place during this weekend’s BAFTA Film Awards, where a man with Tourette’s was heard shouting a slur during the broadcast.
What happened at the BAFTA Film Awards?
During the awards over the weekend, actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the first award of the show. During their presentation, a man could be heard shouting a racial slur over the broadcast. The two actors briefly reacted to it, but proceeded with the presentation.
The man who yelled, John Davidson, is a Tourette’s syndrome activist who suffers from the motor disorder, and is also the subject of the film I Swear, which is loosely based on Davidson’s life as someone with severe Tourette’s syndrome. In comments made under a video of the incident from The Neighborhood Talk’s Instagram, Foxx expressed disbelief that Davidson didn’t mean what he said.
“Out of all the words, you could’ve said Tourette’s makes you say that?” Foxx wrote in one comment, while writing “he meant that sh-t” in another.
Davidson has been chronicled for years by various outlets, and is believed to have coprolalia, a term used for the involuntary utterance of obscene, taboo, or socially inappropriate words. The specific condition is believed to affect around 10% of patients with Tourette’s syndrome.
Backlash around the moment swiftly began on social media. While many are understanding of Davidson’s syndrome, some believe that the British Academy of Film and Television Arts should have edited out the remarks in the broadcasting of the award shows. Others question Davidson’s attendance in the show given his tics.
As of this time, neither Jordan, Lindo, Davidson, or the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have commented on the matter.
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