Screenshots that have been shared online across TikTok, X and Instagram’s Threads suggest Ortega used the slur in at least two social media posts.

On Sunday's episode, narrator Iain Stirling announced that Cierra Ortega had left the Peacock reality series due to a "personal situation," leaving her partner and fellow contestant, Nic Vansteenberghe, single.

Love Island USA” contestant Cierra Ortega is no longer looking for love on the reality program. Ortega’s exit, which came a week before the dating show’s Season 7 finale, was announced in a voiceover that said she left the show for a “personal situation,