Cierra Ortega, a contestant of this summer's “Love Island USA” left the villa just a week before the finale of the hit reality series is set to air on Peacock. Her departure, announced Sunday, followed weeks of uproar from viewers after old posts from Ortega resurfaced that contained a racial slur against Asian people.

The parents of "Love Island USA" star Cierra Ortega addressed their daughter's alleged racist comments that have resurfaced in recent days on social media.

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.