On Saturday 10 June, activist and saxophonist María Elena Ríos claimed that the Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually actor is a “sexual predator” and accused him of sexual assault. “It is very tough to speak concerning the emotional abuse and the abuse of energy of a sexual predator who’s liked world wide for taking part in a personality in a film akin to Tenoch Huerta.” In a press release Huerta, 42, shared on Monday, he claimed that the accusation is “false and fully unsubstantiated”.