Tila Tequila apologizes for 'terrible mistakes' after Celebrity Big Brother exit

Tila Tequila has apologized for making "terrible mistakes" after she was booted from the U.K. Celebrity Big Brother house for making anti-Semitic comments and sympathising with Adolf Hitler on her Facebook.com page.

The reality star shared a statement on her Twitter.com account on Friday (28Aug15) after she was evicted from the house.

She had posted on her Facebook page in 2013 a mocked-up photo of herself in a Nazi uniform in front of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and said that Hitler wasn't a "bad person".

A huge backlash against the star began when Tequila entered the house on Thursday (27Aug15), and the Channel 5 show's creators made the decision to oust her from the house.

She has now asked for forgiveness over her comments and said that she was "absolutely not 100% a Nazi supporter", blaming severe depression and drug addiction for her controversial comments.

She wrote, "Back in 2013 I made a statement about Hitler not being a bad person, and immediately realized soon after that I had made a terrible mistake that would ultimately come back to haunt me. During that time I had been suffering from severe depression, and drug addiction for many years prior to that.

"I also attempted to commit suicide in 2012 and overdosed on prescription pills. I wanted to die. I felt worthless and unloved as that pain continued to grow causing me further to spiral out of control. Losing touch of myself and reality.

"I have made many mistakes that I am definitely not proud about, but I am only a flawed human who is trying my best to be a better person than I was in the past. Although I cannot do much to change my past mistakes now, I can however, try to make things right from this morning forward, and be the best person that I can be. I am in no way, shape or form a racist nor antisemitic and absolutely not 100% a Nazi supporter.

"It was a careless mistake I made in 2013 while suffering severe depression, drug addiction and (being) suicidal. That is not the woman I have grown up to be today, and the loving mother that I have become. I hope that Celebrity Big Brother will give me a second chance."

Channel 5 bosses insist they were unaware of Tequila's social media outburst, and they decided to remove her immediately once they were made aware. They said in a statement on Friday, "The views Tila had expressed, and permitted to remain uncorrected, are totally unacceptable and, accordingly, her continued involvement in the program was untenable."