Ronda Rousey is apologizing for sharing a Sandy Hook bloodbath conspiracy video in 2013. The previous UFC and WWE champion printed the apology on Friday morning after her current fan Q&A was flooded with reminders about her actions.
Rousey took half in an “Ask Me Something” on Reddit earlier this week. The favored Reddit subform hosts notable visitors answering questions from followers. The Reddit put up was overwhelmed with reminders, jokes and calls for for an apology after Rousey shared the conspiracy video 11 years in the past. Reddit makes use of a voting system to dictate which posts are most seen. The highest touch upon Rousey’s AMA acknowledges a YouTube video Rousey shared in January 2013, in line with Bleacher Report, one month after the December 2012 bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty in Newton, Connecticut, that killed 20 youngsters and 6 workers members.
Rousey known as the video “extraordinarily attention-grabbing, and should watch,” in 2013 earlier than deleting the tweet.
“I am unable to say what number of instances I’ve redrafted this apology over the past 11 years,” Rousey wrote within the early hours of Friday morning. “What number of instances I’ve satisfied myself it wasn’t the fitting time or that I might be inflicting much more harm by giving it. However 11 years in the past I made the one most regrettable determination of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on Twitter. I did not even imagine it, however was so horrified on the reality that I used to be greedy for an alternate fiction to cling to as a substitute. I shortly realized my mistake and took it down, however the harm was achieved.
Rousey claimed she included an apology in her final memoir earlier than her writer “begged” her to take away it. The apology was allegedly eliminated to keep away from overshadowing the remainder of the e book.
“I satisfied myself that apologizing would simply reopen the wound for no different cause than me selfishly making an attempt to make myself really feel higher,” Rousey mentioned. “That I might harm these struggling much more and presumably lead extra individuals down the black gap of conspiracy bullshit by it being introduced up once more simply so I might attempt to shake the label of being a ‘Sandy Hook truther.'”
The previous UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion and three-time WWE ladies’s champion mentioned she deserved any outrage in direction of her. Rousey apologized for any ache her actions brought about.
“I need to be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse for it,” Rousey mentioned. “I need to 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 Hooker bloodbath, from the underside of my coronary heart and the depth of my soul I’m so, so sorry for the harm I brought about. I am unable to even start to think about the ache you have endured and phrases can not describe how totally remorseful and ashamed I’m of myself for contributing to it. I’ve regretted it on daily basis of my life since and can proceed to take action till the day I die.”
Rousey closed her assertion by urging others misinformed by conspiracy theories to rewire their pondering. Rousey mentioned that digesting such conspiracy theories was not fruitful due diligence and would solely carry hurt.
“And to anybody else that is fallen down the black gap of bullshit, it does not make you edgy or an unbiased thinker. You are not doing all your due diligence entertaining each chance by digesting these conspiracies. They’ll solely make you’re feeling powerless, afraid, depressing and remoted. You are doing nothing however hurting others and your self. No matter what number of bridges you have burned over it, cease digging your self a deeper gap. Do not get wrapped up within the sunk price fallacy irrespective of how lengthy you have gone down the incorrect highway. It’s best to nonetheless flip again.”
You possibly can learn Rousey’s full assertion beneath.
