Ronda Rousey Apologizes for Sharing a Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video 11 Years Ago

Ronda Rousey has 1 large regret successful life—and seemingly it isn’t getting KO-ed by Holly Holm successful 2015 oregon appearing successful The Expendables 3. Instead, Rousey is very, very, precise atrocious she shared a video connected Twitter implicit a decennary agone that promulgated conspiracy theories astir the Sandy Hook shooting.

On Friday, the erstwhile UFC combatant posted an epic apology to X that acrophobic a video she shared mode backmost successful 2013. That video, which has since been deleted from the internet, was primitively enactment retired by a YouTube transmission called ThinkOutsideTheTV, and alleged that the Sandy Hook shooting was portion of a authorities conspiracy. According to Bleacher Report, astatine the time, Rousey called the video “extremely interesting, and must-watch.” Later, aft backlash, Rousey deleted her tweet with the video, but past said that “asking questions and doing probe is much patriotic than blindly accepting what you’re told.”

Since the video has mostly been erased from the web, there’s not a full batch we tin accidental astir it. One thing’s for sure, though: Rousey definite regrets sharing it.

“I can’t accidental however galore times I’ve redrafted this apology implicit the past 11 years. How galore times I’ve convinced myself it wasn’t the close clip oregon that I’d beryllium causing adjacent much harm by giving it. But eleven years agone I made the azygous astir regrettable determination of my life,” Rousey said. “I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reported it connected twitter. I didn’t adjacent judge it, but was truthful horrified astatine the information that I was grasping for an alternate fabrication to cling to instead. I rapidly realized my mistake and took it down, but the harm was done.”

Why is Rousey feeling truthful apologetic close now? It would look to beryllium due to the fact that of a Reddit AMA she hosted a fewer days ago successful which she was pelted with questions astir the decade-old video. Angry Redditors queried the erstwhile combatant connected wherefore she thought it was due to stock specified conspiratorial content. “Have you ever considered apologizing to the Sandy Hook parents for being 1 of the astir recognizable athletes connected the satellite and spreading conspiracies that the execution of their children was staged?” 1 asked. It was practically the lone taxable that came up.

Welp, present it truly seems similar she has considered it. Rousey’s apology continues: “By immoderate occurrence it seemingly slipped nether the media’s radar, I was ne'er asked astir it truthful I ne'er spoke of it again, acrophobic that calling attraction to it would person the other of the intended effect – it could summation views of those conspiracy videos, and selfishly, pass adjacent much radical I was ignorant, aforesaid absorbed, and code deaf capable to stock connected successful the archetypal place. I drafted a thousandth apology to see successful my past memoir, but my steadfast begged maine to instrumentality it out, saying it would overshadow everything other and bash much harm than good. So I convinced myself that apologizing would conscionable reopen the coiled for nary different crushed than maine selfishly trying to marque myself consciousness better, that I would wounded those suffering adjacent much and perchance pb much radical down the achromatic spread of conspiracy bullshit by it being brought up again conscionable truthful I could effort to shingle the statement of a ‘Sandy Hook truther.'”

Ronda goes connected similar this astatine sizeable length. As acold arsenic personage apologies go, it mightiness beryllium the longest I’ve seen. I plugged her full screed into a connection number app and it is 478 words long, which is considerably longer than, say, geriatric George H. W. Bush’s apology aft helium was caught pinching a full clump of women’s butts from the confines of his wheelchair; for that inarguably much superior offense, Bush’s apology was lone 84 words. The bulk of Rousey’s rhetorical effort astatine atonement is 1 agelong drawstring of self-flagellation. At 1 point, she claims she deserves to “be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse” and, later, says has regretted sharing the video “every time of my beingness since and volition proceed to bash truthful until the time I die.” You tin work Ronda’s full apology here.