During the Sunday, July 6, episode of “Love Island USA,” narrator Iain Stirling announced that Cierra Ortega had left the show due to a “personal situation.” Prior to her shocking exit, many fans called for Ortega’s removal after discovering that she used a slur for Chinese people in several social media posts.

"I want to first start by addressing not just anyone that I have hurt or deeply offended, but most importantly, the entire Asian community. I am deeply, truly, honestly, so sorry," she said in a lengthy video.

Former “Love Island USA” contestant has released a video apologizing for previously using a racial slur against Asian people.

Cierra Ortega exits "Love Island USA" after racist social media posts resurface, with her family issuing a statement asking for compassion during the controversy.

Vansteenberghe had been intimate on several occasions with his former partner Cierra Ortega while taping the Peacock reality show.

Love Island Season 6 contestant Andrea Carmona opened up about the cyberbullying she received after she came off the show.

Cierra Ortega, a former contestant on season 7 of “Love Island USA,” has spoken out after abruptly leaving the show when multiple of her using a racial slur resurfaced online. Ortega, who audiences learned had left the show on Sunday, July 6, took accountability for using the offensive term in an Instagram video posted Wednesday, July 9.

When it came to contestant Michelle “Chelley” Bissainthe, a Haitian-American Islander, the post was no longer funny. Her “breakfast” featured fruit, Goldfish crackers, and a “knuckle sandwich” —represented by a white fist wedged between two slices of bread.

There will be Real Housewives, former Olympians, comedians, Love Island personalities and returning contestants from previous Traitors' seasons. Here's the full 23-member cast.

Love Island USA contestant Cierra Ortega has addressed her removal from the hit dating reality show. A week before the finale, Ortega was dropped from Season Seven after the surfacing of social media posts from 2015 and 2020 in which she used a racial slur toward the Asian community.

Love Island USA' Alumni Reveal Who Nearly Said No to New Spinoff 'Beyond the Villa' (Exclusive) originally appeared on Parade. Last summer, Season 6 of Love Island USA broke the internet, catapulting the Peacock reality series into a bona fide streaming hit.