Ronda Rousey Apologizes for Sharing a Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video 11 Years In the past

Ronda Rousey has one nice remorse in life—and apparently IT isn’t getting KO-ed by Holly Holm in 2015 or showing in The Expendables 3. As a substitute, Rousey could be very, very, very sorry she shared a video on Twitter over a decade in the past that promulgated conspiracy theories in regards to the Sandy Hook taking pictures.

On Friday, the previous UFC fighter posted an epic apology to X that involved a video she shared method again in 2013. That video, which has since been deleted from the web, was initially put out by a YouTube channel known as ThinkOutsideTheTV, and alleged that the Sandy Hook taking pictures was a part of a authorities conspiracy. In accordance with Bleacher Report, on the time, Rousey known as the video “extraordinarily fascinating, and must-watch.” Later, after backlash, Rousey deleted her tweet with the video, however then stated that “asking questions and doing analysis is extra patriotic than blindly accepting what you’re instructed.”

Because the video has largely been erased from the net, there’s not a complete lot we are able to say about IT. One factor’s for positive, although: Rousey positive regrets sharing IT.

“I can’t say what number of instances I’ve redrafted this apology over the past 11 years. What number of instances I’ve satisfied myself IT wasn’t the precise time or that I’d be inflicting much more injury by giving IT. However eleven years in the past I made the only most regrettable choice of my life,” Rousey stated. “I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reported 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 injury was accomplished.”

Why is Rousey feeling so apologetic proper now? IT would seem like due to a Reddit AMA she hosted a few days ago through which she was pelted with questions in regards to the decade-old video. Indignant Redditors queried the previous fighter on why she thought IT was acceptable to share such conspiratorial content material. “Have you ever ever thought-about apologizing to the Sandy Hook dad and mom for being one of the recognizable athletes on the planet and spreading conspiracies that the homicide of their youngsters was staged?” one requested. IT was virtually the one topic that got here up.

Welp, now IT actually looks like she has thought-about IT. Rousey’s apology continues: “By some miracle IT seemingly slipped beneath 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 would have the other of the meant impact – IT might enhance views of 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. I drafted a thousandth apology to incorporate in my final memoir, however my writer begged me to take IT out, saying IT would overshadow every part else and do extra hurt than good. So I satisfied myself that apologizing would simply reopen the wound for no different motive than me selfishly attempting to make myself really feel higher, that I’d harm these struggling much more and presumably lead extra folks down the black gap of conspiracy bullshit by IT being introduced up once more simply so I might attempt to shake the label of a ‘Sandy Hook truther.’”

Ronda goes on like this at appreciable size. So far as movie star apologies go, IT is likely to be the longest I’ve seen. I plugged her total screed right into a phrase rely app and IT is 478 phrases lengthy, which is significantly longer than, say, geriatric George H. W. Bush’s apology after he was caught pinching a complete bunch of girls’s butts from the confines of his wheelchair; for that inarguably extra critical offense, Bush’s apology was solely 84 phrases. The majority of Rousey’s rhetorical try at atonement is one lengthy string of self-flagellation. At one level, she claims she deserves to “be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse” and, later, says has regretted sharing the video “every single day of my life since and can proceed to take action till the day I die.” You possibly can learn Ronda’s total apology here.