Ronda Rousey is lastly proudly owning as much as a mistake she made greater than a decade in the past … formally apologizing for sharing a Sandy Hook conspiracy principle vid again in 2013.
The previous UFC bantamweight champion infamously reposted the clip — which questioned the authenticity of the tragic college capturing that took the lives of 20 kids and 6 staffers — to her social media web page … earlier than nearly instantly taking it down amid backlash.
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She appeared to attempt to sweep it beneath the rug within the ensuing years … however when her current Reddit AMA thread was bombarded by feedback in regards to the controversy — she took to X to formally concern a mea culpa.
In a prolonged assertion, she mentioned, “I apologize that this came 11 years too late, but to those affected by the Sandy Hook massacre, from the bottom of my heart and depth of my soul, I am so so sorry for the hurt I caused.”
She added, “I can’t even begin to imagine the pain you’ve endured, and words cannot describe how thoroughly remorseful and ashamed I am of myself for contributing to it. I’ve regretted it every day of my life since and will continue to do so until the day I die.”
Rousey — who, on the time 11 years in the past, known as the video “extremely interesting” and a “must-watch” — defined she solely reposted the footage as a result of she was “horrified at the truth” and was “grasping for an alternative fiction to cling to instead.”
Rousey additionally said she first wished to incorporate an apology in her memoir — which was launched in 2015 — however claimed her writer “begged me to take it out, saying it would overshadow everything else and do more harm than good.”
“So I convinced myself that apologizing would just reopen the wound for no other reason than me selfishly trying to make myself feel better,” she mentioned, “that I would hurt those suffering even more and possibly lead more people down the black hole of conspiracy bulls*** by it being brought up again just so I could try to shake the label of being a ‘Sandy Hook truther.”
Rousey completed her assertion by advising all people to keep away from falling “down the black hole of bulls***” conspiracy theories.
“Don’t get wrapped up in the sunk cost fallacy,” she mentioned. “No matter how long you’ve gone down the wrong road, you should still turn back.”
