Love Island USA” contest Yulissa Escobar has broken her silence about her sudden exit from the show. After being dropped from the reality dating series in Episode 2, Escobar took to Instagram Friday to address speculation about her departure and apologize.

Less than one week into season seven of Love Island USA, we already have a scandal on our hands. In Wednesday’s episode, one of the contestants, Yulissa Escobar, was abruptly removed from the villa and taken out of Fiji after footage of her using a racial slur surfaced online.

"I used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it," Escobar wrote in an Instagram post Friday, shortly after clips of her using the N-word resurfaced