John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette's Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame' (EXCLUSIVE)

John Davidson, the Scottish Tourette’s syndrome activist and real-life inspiration for "I Swear," was thrust into the ...

John Davidson intends to apologise directly to Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo after BAFTAs incident

On this episode of Baseball Bar-B-Cast, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman are joined by Yuri Karasawa to preview all the ...

I Swear subject John Davidson says Bafta N-word incident and homophobic slurs are ‘opposite of what I believe’

The words are not chosen for meaning in the moment. The person who says it usually experiences the outbursts as unwanted and distressing. Researchers class it as a complex vocal tic not as intentional ...

Tourette's campaigner says BBC 'should have worked harder' to stop his slur being aired

Tourette's campaigner John Davidson has said the BBC should have "worked harder to prevent anything that I said" at the Bafta ...

John Davidson questions BBC and Bafta over not editing his tourette’s tics out of broadcast in N-word incident

Davidson, whose biopic ‘I Swear’ won Robert Aramayo the Best Actor award, involuntarily shouted the racial slur at ‘Sinners’ ...
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John Davidson speaks out in first interview since BAFTAs

Scottish Tourette's syndrome activist and the real-life inspiration for I Swear, John Davidson, made headlines at the 79th BAFTA Awards when his involuntary vocal tics interrupted the ceremony, most ...

Alan Cumming addresses tic outburst from John Davidson during BAFTA awards

At the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, Tourette's syndrome activist John Davidson experienced a tic outburst and used expletives and a racial slur.

John Davidson condemns racial slur he ticked at the BAFTAs

John Davidson set the record straight on the "10 different offensive words" he ticked at the BAFTAs, including a slur ...
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"My stomach just dropped": John Davidson says he felt shame and embarrassment in first interview since the BAFTA incident

John Davidson has broken his silence in his first interview since the fallout from the 79th BAFTA ceremony, describing the ...
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John Davidson admits he shouted several 'offensive' tics during the BAFTAs

Tourette's campaigner John Davidson has addressed the BAFTAs incident in a new interview, explaining he shouted several ...

Tourette’s activist says BAFTAs seated him by mic, assured slurs would be edited

BAFTAs assured Tourette’s activist John Davidson that his involuntary tics, which often occur in the form of slurs, “would be edited out of the broadcast.” That didn’t ...