John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

At the Feb. 22 BAFTA Film Awards, John Davidson, who has Tourette Syndrome, yelled the n-word while Black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage The activist shed light on both the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The source of the slur was John Davidson, a prominent Scottish activist living with Tourette's syndrome.

Tourette’s syndrome activist John Davidson, whose vocal tics resulted in him blurting out a racial epithet and other slurs during Sunday’s BAFTAs Awards, said in his first interview since the ceremony ...

Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson has said the BBC could have done more to stop his involuntary racial slur about the stars of Sinners from airing on national television. In an interview with ...

As questions remain regarding how Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson yelling out the N-word as one of his tics while Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage made it into ...

Tourette’s activist John Davidson said he’s humiliated after shouting the N-word at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the 2026 BAFTA Awards Sunday. Davidson shared in a statement to Deadline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Davidson, the Scottish Tourette’s syndrome activist and real-life inspiration for “I Swear,” was thrust into the spotlight at ...

“BAFTA had made us all aware that any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast,” Davidson revealed, shedding light on his neurological disorder At the Feb. 22 BAFTA Film Awards, John Davidson, ...

(Left-right:) Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo; John Davidson at the EE BAFTA Film Awards on Feb. 22 Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of ...