Though season 7 of Peacock’s “Love Island” has been off the air for months, the drama is clearly removed from over. Most just lately, Olandria Carthen took a shot at her “Love Island” nemesis, Huda Mustafa, after the latter got here beneath hearth for showing to giggle whereas a fan known as Carthen the N-word throughout a social media livestream.

Mustafa, 25, has been within the sizzling seat since leaving the “Love Island” villa in the summertime of 2025. Now, she’s making much more waves after a clip of her and her boyfriend, Louis Russell, showing to giggle at a fan calling Carthen the N-word went viral.

She tried to wash up the mess with just a few statements on her Instagram Tales, calling the headlines of her allegedly dismissing racism “clickbait” earlier than describing the second as “awkward [and] inappropriate.”

Followers responded to the clip nearly immediately, slamming Mustafa and Russell for allegedly making mild of a painful state of affairs.

“I am so bored with this,” a consumer wrote on Reddit. “If Huda spoke up the primary time concerning the racism [that] so a lot of her followers perpetuated, possibly we would not be right here. There’s a lot hate in folks’s hearts. Genuinely, what’s humorous about it?”

Carthen, who positioned second on season 7 of “Love Island,” shared a passionate response to the viral clip, expressing her disappointment with the language used and calling it “by no means acceptable.”

“I cannot let this second derail my function of uplifting my group. I’m standing agency in who I’m and utilizing this as a possibility to name for actual accountability and consciousness. All of us have a task in constructing a tradition the place talking to at least one one other with respect is the usual, and the place talking towards hate speech is the naked minimal,” she continued.

In her response, Carthen additionally appeared to throw shade at Mustafa, writing that the unlucky occasion would seemingly “end in floor degree apologies that fade in just a few days” earlier than asking her followers to channel their anger towards a much bigger function.

“I encourage those that have participated within the stream and their followers to exhibit a real dedication to anti-racism by donating to organizations and foundations devoted to educating and uplifting this group, such because the UNCF, NAACP, and/or the Thurgood Marshall Faculty Fund. I will probably be making a private donation as properly,” she wrote.

After a while handed, Mustafa launched an announcement, explaining that she wanted to take a seat with the second to “totally take accountability for my actions.”

She then addressed Carthen instantly, apologizing “for my speedy response.” In accordance with Mustafa, her laughter was a results of “being caught off guard, not from discovering the phrase or state of affairs humorous.”

“It was a nervous, uncomfortable response that I acknowledge was inappropriate. I wish to be clear that I don’t condone or tolerate anybody who makes use of such language, and I strongly encourage the person accountable to mirror deeply on their phrases and the hurt they’ve brought on,” she continued.

As she completed, Mustafa revealed that she deliberate to make a “private donation to the NAACP” earlier than encouraging her followers to do the identical.

This is not the primary time a “Love Island” solid member has come beneath hearth for displaying problematic habits.

In accordance with a earlier report from The Blast, authentic islander Yulissa Escobar was faraway from the present after clips of her utilizing the N-word on a podcast resurfaced.

She acknowledged the clips as soon as returning to social media, explaining that she used the slur “ignorantly, not totally understanding the burden, historical past, or ache behind it.”