Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey has delivered a heartfelt apology for sharing a Sandy Hook conspiracy video eleven years in the past.
Previous to her title struggle with Liz Carmouche at UFC 157 in February of 2013, Ronda Rousey shared a video on Twitter (now X) that questioned the legitimacy of the college taking pictures at Sandy Hook which left 20 youngsters and 6 adults lifeless.
‘Rowdy’ obtained a ton of backlash for calling the conspiracy concept “attention-grabbing” and has now issued a prolonged apology for what she calls the “most regrettable choice” of her life.
The previous UFC girls’s bantamweight champion took to social media yesterday night the place she delivered the next prolonged assertion apologizing for her “detestable” actions eleven years in the past.
“I can’t say what number of instances I’ve redrafted this apology over the past 11 years,” Ronda Rousey wrote. “What number of instances I’ve satisfied myself it wasn’t the precise time or that I’d be inflicting much more harm by giving it. However eleven years in the past, I made the one most regrettable choice of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and re-posted it on Twitter. I didn’t even imagine it, however I used to be so horrified on the reality that I used to be greedy for an alternate fiction to cling to as an alternative. I shortly realized my mistake and took it down, however the harm was performed. By some miracle it seemingly slipped below 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 alternative of the supposed impact – it might enhance the views of these conspiracy movies, and selfishly, inform much more individuals I used to be ignorant, self-absorbed, and tone deaf sufficient to share one within the first place.”
Ronda Rousey continued:
“I drafted a thousandth apology to incorporate in my final memoir, however my writer begged me to take it out, saying it will overshadow the whole lot else and do extra hurt than good. So, I satisfied myself that apologizing would simply reopen the wound for no different cause than me selfishly attempting to make myself really feel higher, that I’d damage these struggling much more and probably lead extra individuals down the black gap of conspiracy bullsh*t by it being introduced up once more simply so I might attempt to shake the label of being a ‘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 have been canceled, I’d 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 induced. I can’t even start to think about the ache you’ve endured, and phrases can not describe how totally remorseful and ashamed I’m of myself for contributing to it. I’ve regretted it daily of my life since and can proceed to take action till the day I die.”
— Ronda Rousey (@RondaRousey) August 23, 2024
Ronda Rousey concluded her apology with the next phrases of knowledge:
“It doesn’t make you edgy, or an impartial thinker. You’re not doing all your due diligence entertaining each chance by digesting these conspiracies. They’ll solely make you are 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 value fallacy, irrespective of how lengthy you’ve gone down the mistaken highway, you must nonetheless flip again.”
Rousey (12-2 MMA) retired from fight sports activities shortly following her TKO loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December of 2016.
