Camilla Cabello has broken her silence over the backlash she's received after her backup dancer was accused of performing in blackface.
On July 23, the 24-year-old performed her single 'Don't Go Yet' on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she was accompanied by a group of backup dancers dressed in 80s outfits.
The performance instantly found itself at the center of controversy, as viewers rushed to social media to slam the set and accuse one of the dancers of wearing blackface, per E! News.
One Twitter user wrote: "Camila what was going on with Dylan's makeup?...having a dancer do blackface on stage in 2021 is absurd and you know better than that! Say something immediately."
Another added: "Camila Cabello really had background dancers…in blackface. In 2021. I’m sick."
While a third wrote: "@Camila_Cabello clearly those racism classes taught you nothing… allowing a white man to do blackface on a live performance for millions to see…. I’m disgusted but not surprised."
However, in a statement shared to Twitter, the 'Havana' hitmaker denied that the man in question had been wearing blackface. Instead, she alleged he was "just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan".
In the Twitter thread, Cabello addressed the backlash by first sharing a video of the performance and revealing that, on her team, they try to "create a culture of kindness, joy, and love", with the singer then claiming that "you could feel that this week".
In a follow-up tweet, Cabello then shared a photo of the dancer, Dylan Pearce, backstage, that he had shared to his Instagram with the caption: "In case you missed my spray tan last night on @jimmyfallon with @camila_cabello."
She then posted a follow-up note, writing: "Hey! So this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan."
She went on: "We purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin. There are white people, African American people, Latin people, etc.
"And so the point wasn’t to try to make everyone look Latin, either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not."
Cabello then concluded the statement explaining that the "point" of the outfits was to make each dancer look like an "over-the-top 80s character".
"The point was to try to make each person look like an over-the-top 80s character just like in the video, including a white dude with a terrible orange spray tan," she added.