India, June 5 -- Love Island USA Season 7 is off to a chaotic start, as one of the original contestants, Yulissa Escobar, was abruptly removed from the villa during the second episode after old podcast clips resurfaced showing her hurling racial slurs, including repeated use of the N-word.

Notably, around the 18-minute mark of Wednesday's episode, as the islanders were just beginning to wake up, narrator Iain Stirling casually announced, "Yulissa has left the villa." No further context was provided.

The departure follows days of mounting online backlash after the resurfaced podcast clips, obtained and reported by TMZ, began making rounds. In the audio, Escobar can be heard using the N-word several times while discussing past relationshi...