BAFTA Actor Accused of N-Word Outburst

A black Oscar-winning production designer says Tourette campaigner John Davidson called her the n-word at Sunday's awards where he hurled the same slur at actors and Delroy Lindo. 

Hannah Beachler, who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for Production Design in 2018 for Black Panther, took to X after Davidson's involuntary outbursts made headlines on Sunday. 

He could be heard shouting the n-word at Jordan and Lindo while the two Sinners actors were on stage in Sunday night, with microphones picking up the racist term. 

Beachler wrote on X: 'I keep trying to write about what happened at the BAFTAs, and I can't find the words. 

'The situation is almost impossible, but it happened 3 times that night, and one of the three times was directed at myself on the way to dinner after the show.'

Beachler said the other person Davidson shouted at was also a black woman, and although she acknowledged it as an 'impossible situation', she criticized the apology from awards host Alan Cumming. 

'I know we must handle this with grace and continue to push through. But what made the situation worse was the throw away apology of 'if you were offended' at the end of the show,' she said. 

'Of course we were offended... but our frequency, our spiritual vibration is tuned to a higher level than what happened. I am not steal, this did not bounce off of me, but I exist above it. It can't take away from who I am as an artist.'

It comes as a clip of Davidson involuntarily shouting the N-word at Jordan and Lindo went viral on social media, with Cumming going on to thank the audience 'for their understanding' over the Tourette sufferers condition. 

Davidson was at the awards show as he is the subject one of the nominated movies, I Swear, which details the life of the campaigner who was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at a time when little was known about the condition. 

He appeared to have left the ceremony in the second half of the show as his outbursts could no longer be heard.

According to Variety, John left of his own accord and was not asked to leave by BAFTA. A source told the publication that he was an 'invited guest' and under no circumstances would he be asked to leave the ceremony.

While Jordan and Lindo didn't react to the remark, Alan Cumming later addressed the audience at London's Royal Festival Hall and apologised for the offensive language.

Addressing the outbursts, Alan told the crowd: 'You may have heard some strong offensive language tonight, but if you've seen the film I Swear, it's about the experience of a person with Tourette syndrome.

'It is a disability and the ticks you have heard tonight are involuntary that means the person who has Tourette syndrome has no control over their language and we apologize if it has caused offence.'