{"id":2297761,"date":"2026-02-24T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297761"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:07:46","slug":"john-davidson-says-he-is-deeply-mortified-that-his-tourettes-tics-could-be-seen-as-intentional-in-first-statement-after-bafta-film-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-davidson-says-he-is-deeply-mortified-that-his-tourettes-tics-could-be-seen-as-intentional-in-first-statement-after-bafta-film-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Davidson Says He Is \u201cDeeply Mortified\u201d That His Tourette\u2019s Tics Could Be Seen As \u201cIntentional\u201d In First Statement After BAFTA Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson<\/a> has issued a statement after his racial slur at the BAFTA Film Awards dominated the aftermath of the ceremony. Read the statement in full below.<\/p>\n

In a statement released this afternoon, Davidson<\/a> said he was \u201cdeeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in attendance to celebrate the film of my life, I Swear<\/a>, which, more than any film or TV documentary, explains the origins, condition, traits, and manifestations of Tourette syndrome,\u201d Davidson\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have spent my life trying to support and empower the Tourette\u2019s community and to teach empathy, kindness, and understanding from others, and I will continue to do so. I chose to leave the auditorium early into the ceremony as I was aware of the distress my tics were causing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidson, who is the subject of the movie I Swear<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson has issued a statement after his racial slur at the BAFTA Film Awards dominated the aftermath of the ceremony. Read the statement in full below. In a statement released this afternoon, Davidson said he was \u201cdeeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2297761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771952864_John-Davidson-Says-He-Is-Deeply-Mortified-That-His-Tourettes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297763,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297761\/revisions\/2297763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}