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Love on the Spectrum’s Dani Bowman Slams ‘Euphoria,’ Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson for Using R-Word’

Bowman said the slur’s return in mainstream entertainment hurts autistic people and reverses years of inclusion work, with four episodes of Euphoria using it.

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Love on the Spectrum star Dani Bowman has some choice words for the Euphoria writers and wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for using — and arguably normalizing the use of — the “R-word.” “We worked too hard for inclusion and acceptance to normalize the ‘R-word’ again,” Bowman, who has appeared on all four seasons of Netflix’s hit reality TV show, told TMZ in a Friday, May 15, interview. “As someone on the Autism spectrum, it’s hone…

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TMZ broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Friday, May 15, 2026.
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