Disgraced The Mandalorian star Gina Carano has claimed that Disney accidentally sent her an email revealing her behaviour was being monitored.
ICYMI, Carano was fired from The Mandalorian cast earlier this month following backlash over a since-deleted Instagram post. Within the post, Carano compared the experience of Jews in the Holocaust to the US political climate.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours…. even by children,” she wrote.
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews.”
Unsurprisingly, Carano received widespread online condemnation for her decidedly insensitive and tone-deaf comments.
In a new interview on The Ben Shapiro Show (via NME), Carano said that the email mistakenly sent to her by Disney revealed that employees were following the #FireGinaCarano movement.
“They accidentally sent me an email, which was very enlightening, so I knew… I knew they were paying attention. I know there were some people who went to bat for me but I know that they didn’t win out at the end, she said.
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Carano continued on to allege that Disney took umbrage with her not “going along with the narrative”.
“They’ve been all over me and they’ve been watching me like a hawk, and I’m watching people on the same production and they can say everything they want, and that’s where I had a problem. I had a problem because I wasn’t going along with the narrative,” she said.
Carano also claimed that her Instagram post was simply “inspired by the gentle spirit of the Jewish people going through that time”.
She continued: “When I posted that it wasn’t something that I felt was controversial. It was something that I thought, well, maybe all of us need to ask ourselves how that happened.”
“I’ve got every single big publication saying she’s comparing conservatives and Republicans to this and that’s not really what I was doing… I have love for everyone; I’m not a hateful person.”
Carano concluded by revealing that she doesn’t regret her comments, saying she was prepared to “go down swinging.”
“I was prepared at any point to be let go, because I’ve seen this happen to so many people. I’ve seen the looks on their faces. I’ve seen the bullying that takes place, and so when this started, they point their guns at you, and you know it’s only a matter of time. I’ve seen it happen to so many people, and I just thought to myself…‘You’re coming for me, I know you are.'” she said.
“They’re making it very obvious through their employees who were coming for me, and so I was like, ‘I’m going to go down swinging and I’m going to stay true to myself.’”
Check out Gina Carano speaking out about Disney on The Ben Shapiro Show:
