No, Im going to talk about this, were going to open this bad boy up. Lets open the can of worms, Rodriguez said, speaking to The Huffington Post about what she's described as interracial Latino racism, during her Crest 3D White Brilliance 2 Step launch event on Thursday.

The Jane The Virgin star experienced it first-hand earlier this month when she shared her People En Espaol cover story in an Instagram post , the caption of which she decided to write in both English and Spanish.

Rodriguez says she wrote the Spanish caption because she felt it was appropriate when sharing her People En Espaol cover, adding that she also wanted to do something for her Latino fans who only spoke Spanish or were bilingual. She even sent it to her father for approval first.

But soon after she put it online, Rodriguez began receiving hateful comments about her curled toes and her Spanish.

I posted the picture and I looked at it and I go oh, you know my toes look really weird, she said. Boom! [Commenters started saying] Weird toes, weird toes. It was like I said it and I spoke it into existence. Then I started getting nasty comments about my Spanish.

Yo hablo espaol, yo puedo hablar espaol y tambin entiendo todo (I speak Spanish, I can speak Spanish and I also understand everything), Rodriguez said in Spanish before continuing in English. But during interviews I get nervous, so I dont always say it very well. And I, grammatically, dont write Spanish very well but I understand everything." She added with a laugh, If you want to talk shit about me, I can understand everything that youre saying, which is the only thing that counts."

Rodriguez chalks up the experience to the negative criticism some Latinos direct at other Latinos, adding that the topic is "never" discussed out of fear. That's why she decided to bust open that can of worms and eventually called her bullies out in a follow-up Instagram post.