Eleven years after she shared a Sandy Hook conspiracy video on then-Twitter, former UFC fighter and actor Ronda Rousey says she’s sorry, calling it “the one most regrettable resolution of my life.”
Rousey deleted the video, which steered that the taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary had been staged, shortly after it was posted, telling her followers “she by no means meant to insult of damage anybody.”
In a prolonged submit on X (fka Twitter) Thursday evening, Rousey admits she deserved to be hated and “ought to’ve been canceled.
“I can’t say what number of occasions I’ve redrafted this apology during the last 11 years,” Rousey wrote. “What number of occasions I’ve satisfied myself it wasn’t the suitable time or that I’d be inflicting much more injury by giving it. However 11 years in the past I made the one most regrettable resolution of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on Twitter. I didn’t even consider it, however was so horrified on the reality that I used to be greedy for another fiction to cling to as a substitute. I shortly realized my mistake and took it down, however the injury was carried out.”
She stated that “by some miracle”, the submit slipped beneath the media’s radar and she or he was 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 supposed impact – it might enhance the views on these conspiracy movies, and selfishly inform much more folks I used to be ignorant, self absorbed and tone deaf sufficient to share on within the first place.”
She stated she wished to incorporate an apology in her final memoir Our Battle however her writer “begged me to take it out, saying it could overshadow all the pieces else and do extra hurt than good.”
“However actually I need to be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse for it. I need to lose out on each alternative, I ought to have been canceled, I’d have deserved it. I nonetheless do,” Rousey continued.
It was a latest “Ask Me Something” session on Reddit that satisfied her she wanted to apologize.
“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,” she wrote. “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 it.”
“I’ve regretted it on daily basis of my life since and can proceed to take action till the day I die,” she continued.
Rousey ended her apology by reminding anybody who has “fallen down the black gap of bull***” and conspiracy theories that it “doesn’t make you edgy, or an impartial thinker.”
“They are going to solely make you are feeling powerless, afraid, depressing and remoted. You’re doing nothing however hurting others and your self,” she cautioned. “Irrespective of how lengthy you’ve gone down the unsuitable highway, it’s best to nonetheless flip again.”
You possibly can learn her assertion in full beneath.
