Throughout her descent, Tequila, 35, has seemingly been fixated on Judaism. In 2012, she told
TMZ she was “fascinated with Kabbalah” and was converting to Judaism. She added, “I just feel like the Jewish people have such a beautiful way about them, and I can’t wait to officially be Jewish! Shabbat Shalom.” That was then. The next year, in December 2013, she posted a photoshopped image of herself on Facebook in front of Auschwitz, with a Nazi armband and SS cap on. She called herself “Hitila,” and wrote a post called “Why I Sympathize With Hitler: Part 1,” in which she called him “not a bad person as they have painted him out to be.”
The reemergence of that image and those declarations caused her to be kicked off the popular UK show
Celebrity Big Brother in 2015 after only a few days in the
Big Brotherhouse. Tequila then
issued an apology on Facebook, calling her sympathetic characterization of Hitler “a terrible mistake.” She blamed her anti-Semitism on “depression” and years of “drug addiction.”
“I am in no way, shape or form a racist nor antisemitic and absolutely not 100% a Nazi supporter,” Tequila wrote in August 2015.