The director of Bafta-winning film I Swear said Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson was ‘let down’ after his racist outburst was broadcast during the BBC’s coverage of the ceremony.

Davidson, 54, yelled the N-word at black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTAs at the Royal Festival Hall in London last Sunday.

The Scottish activist admitted he felt a ‘wave of shame’ over the outburst and issued a swift apology, claiming he was ‘deeply mortified’.

Kirk Jones, who directed the film inspired by Davidson, said he thought the slur had been contained within the auditorium.

‘I think John was let down on many, many levels,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.

‘And I think the fact that that [tic] went out for broadcast was perhaps one of the worst ways in which he was let down on the night.

‘If you just imagine for a second that that was not broadcast, then suddenly the problem was restricted to everyone in the room. 

‘And Bafta could write to everyone in the room, and they [could have] said, ‘We wanted to apologise again, we understand, this, that and the other.’

‘They could have done that the next day to all the guests, and no one would have known that it happened… You wouldn’t have the clips.’

Director of Bafta-winning film I Swear Kirk Jones (pictured) said John Davidson was ‘let down’ after his racist outburst was broadcast during the BBC’s coverage of the ceremony

Tourette’s campaigner Davidson (pictured) yelled the N-word at black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTAs at the Royal Festival Hall in London last Sunday

Jordan and Lindo were on stage presenting an award when Davidson’s outburst occurred

It comes after Davidson spoke out about his ‘unbearable guilt and shame’ at the incident as he described how the word ‘burst out of me like a gunshot’.

He said he shouted 10 different offensive words on the night of the awards, not just the N-word, even calling BAFTAs host Alan Cumming a ‘paedophile’.

Davidson told Variety: ‘On Sunday, Alan Cumming joked about his own sexuality and, when referencing Paddington Bear, said, ‘Maybe you would like to come home with me, Paddington. It wouldn’t be the first time I have taken a hairy Peruvian bear home with me.’

‘This resulted in homophobic tics from me and led to a shout of “paedophile” that was likely triggered because Paddington Bear is a children’s character.’

One of Davidson’s biggest symptoms is coprolalia which makes him involuntarily say socially inappropriate words or phrases, including when he famously shouted ‘f*** the Queen’ at Queen Elizabeth II when he was awarded his MBE in 2019.

Davidson has suffered from a severe form of Tourette’s since the age of 12.