Greater than a decade later, Ronda Rousey is apologizing for sharing a controversial conspiracy video claiming that the Sandy Hook bloodbath was staged.
The taking pictures incident occurred on December 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary College in Newtown, Connecticut, and opened hearth, killing 20 kids and 6 employees members. Following the incident, conspiracy theories concerning the taking pictures ran rampant, lots of them perpetuated by disgraced political commentator and former InfoWars host Alex Jones.
A month after the taking pictures, Rousey shared a YouTube video on X (previously Twitter) that perpetuated claims that your entire incident was a piece of fiction. The submit included a caption from Rousey: “Extraordinarily fascinating, and must-watch.”
Rousey was instantly hit with outrage prompting her to delete the video rapidly. Whereas mainstream media failed to select up the story, the incident was addressed by UFC CEO Dana White at a press occasion in March 2013. White unsurprisingly got here to Rousey’s protection saying that “everyone has an opinion” and suggesting that the larger drawback was that “individuals are f*cking p*ssies.”
The entire thing was seemingly forgotten till not too long ago when Rousey engaged in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Something). The MMA icon was instantly inundated with scathing questions on her previous feedback associated to the bloodbath.
Ronda Rousey Will Remorse Sharing Sandy Hook video ‘Till the day i die’
Shortly after, Rousey took to X and issued a prolonged assertion apologizing for the 11-year-old submit.
“I didn’t even consider it, [the conspiracy video] however was so horrified on the reality that I used to be greedy for an alternate fiction to cling to as a substitute. I rapidly realized my mistake and took it down, however the harm was accomplished.
“By some miracle it seemingly slipped underneath 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 will have the other of the meant impact — it may improve 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.”
Rousey added that she’ll remorse the choice to share the video “till the day I die.”
“I should be hated, labeled, detested, resented, and worse for it. I should lose out on each alternative, I ought to have been canceled, I might have deserved it. I nonetheless do. I apologize that this got here 11 years too late, however to these affected by the Sandy Hook bloodbath, from the underside of my coronary heart and depth of my soul I’m so so sorry for the damage I brought on.”
Rousey additionally revealed that she had drafted an apology to incorporate in her newest memoir, however “my writer begged me to take it out, saying it will overshadow all the pieces else and do extra hurt than good.”
