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 choice of my life.”
Rousey deleted the video, which prompt that the capturing at Sandy Hook Elementary had been staged, shortly after it was posted, telling her followers “she by no means meant to insult or harm anybody.”
In a prolonged put up 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 instances I’ve redrafted this apology over the past 11 years,” Rousey wrote. “What number of instances I’ve satisfied myself it wasn’t the proper time or that I’d be inflicting much more harm by giving it. However 11 years in the past I made the one most regrettable choice of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on 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 shortly realized my mistake and took it down, however the harm was carried out.”
She mentioned that “by some miracle”, the put up slipped underneath the media’s radar and he or she 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 meant impact – it may 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.”
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She mentioned she needed to incorporate an apology in her final memoir Our Battle however her writer “begged me to take it out, saying it could overshadow every part else and do extra hurt than good.”
“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,” 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 harm I precipitated,” 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 every single day 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 may solely make you’re 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 improper street, you need to nonetheless flip again.”
You possibly can learn her assertion in full under.
