Ronda Rousey issued an apology for sharing a conspiracy video concerning the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty capturing over a decade in the past.
The previous UFC girls’s bantamweight champion issued a prolonged assertion on Twitter early Friday morning after a latest Reddit AMA featured a slew of questions on posting a YouTube video to the social media account 11 years in the past, saying it was one thing she’s been eager to do for fairly a while.
“I can’t say what number of occasions I’ve redrafted this apology during the last 11 years. What number of occasions I’ve satisfied myself it wasn’t the fitting time or that I’d be inflicting much more injury by giving it,” Rousey mentioned to open her assertion. “However eleven years in the past I made the one most regrettable choice of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it to Twitter. I didn’t even imagine it, however was so horrified on the fact that I used to be greedy for another fiction to cling to as an alternative. I rapidly realized my mistake and took it down, however the injury as finished.
“By some miracle, it seemingly slipped beneath the media’s radar, I used to be by no means requested about it so I by no means spoke of it once more, afraid that calling consideration to it could have the alternative of the meant impact — it may enhance the views of these conspiracy movies, and selfishly, inform much more folks I used to be ignorant, self absorbed, and tone deaf sufficient to share one within the first place.
“I drafted a thousandth apology to incorporate in my final memoir, however my writer begged me to take it out, saying it could overshadow every thing else and do extra hurt than good. So I satisfied myself that apologizing would simply reopen the wound for no different motive than me selfishly making an attempt to make myself really feel higher, that I’d harm these struggling much more and presumably lead extra folks down the black gap of conspiracy bullshit by being introduced up once more simply so I may attempt to shake the label of ‘Sandy Hook truther.’
“However actually I should be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse for it. I should lose out on each alternative, I ought to’ve been cancelled, I’d have deserved it. I nonetheless do. I apologize that this got here 11 years too late, however to these effected by the Sandy Hook bloodbath, from the underside of my coronary heart and depth of my soul I’m so, so sorry for the harm I brought on. I can’t even start to think about the ache you’ve endured and phrases can’t describe how totally remorseful and ashamed I’m of myself for contributing to it. I’ve regretted it every single day of my life since and can proceed to take action till the day I die.”
In keeping with Bleacher Report, Rousey shared the video in January 2013 — a month after the December 2012 bloodbath on the elementary faculty in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 folks, together with 20 college students. It additionally came about a month earlier than her historic UFC debut towards Liz Carmouche in the primary occasion of UFC 157 in February 2013.
Rousey did situation a brief apology on Twitter days later saying she “by no means meant to insult or harm anybody” with sharing the video.
After her loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December 2016, Rousey transitioned to the world of professional wrestling, finally signing with WWE in 2018 and was a part of the corporate till 2023.
Rousey ended her assertion by sending a message to anyone who has fallen into related conditions — previous and current.
“And to anybody else that’s fallen down the black gap of bullshit, it doesn’t make you edgy, or an unbiased thinker, you’re not doing all of your due dilligence entertaining each risk by digesting these conspiracies,” Rousey mentioned. “They are going to solely make you’re feeling powerless, afraid, depressing, and remoted. You’re doing nothing however hurting others and your self.
“No matter what number of bridges you’ve burned over it, cease digging your self a deeper gap, don’t get wrapped up within the sunk price fallacy, irrespective of how lengthy you’ve gone down the incorrect highway, you must nonetheless flip again.”
