In an announcement issued the next night, Davidson stated: “I needed to thank Bafta and everybody concerned within the awards final night time for his or her help and understanding and welcoming me to attend the printed.”
He added, “I appreciated the announcement to the auditorium upfront of the recording, warning everybody that my tics are involuntary and usually are not a mirrored image of my private beliefs. I used to be heartened by the spherical of applause that adopted this announcement and felt welcomed and understood in an setting that will usually be unimaginable for me.”
“Along with the announcement by Alan Cumming, the BBC and Bafta, I can solely add that I’m, and at all times have been, deeply mortified if anybody considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to hold any that means.”
BAFTA host Alan Cumming, 61, addressed the viewers through the ceremony, saying: “You will have observed some sturdy language within the background. This may be a part of how Tourette’s syndrome reveals up for some individuals because the movie explores that have.”
He later added: “Tourette’s Syndrome is a incapacity, and the tics you’ve got heard tonight are involuntary, which implies the one who has Tourette’s Syndrome has no management over their language. We apologize in case you are offended tonight.”
A BBC spokesperson stated: “Some viewers might have heard sturdy and offensive language through the BAFTA Movie Awards. This arose from involuntary verbal tics related to Tourette’s syndrome, and as defined through the ceremony, it was not intentional. We apologize that this was not edited out previous to broadcast, and it’ll now be faraway from the model on BBC iPlayer.”