Ronda Rousey is apologizing for her 2013 tweet about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting saying it was the single most regrettable mistake of her life. The former MMA fighter shared a statement on social media, expressing her regret over sharing a conspiracy theory video 11 years ago that suggested that the shooting had been staged.
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00:00Ronda Rousey is apologizing for her 2013 tweet about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting,
00:05saying it was the single most regrettable mistake of her life.
00:10The former MMA fighter shared a statement on social media expressing her regret over sharing
00:15a conspiracy theory video 11 years ago that suggested that the shooting had been staged.
00:20I can't say how many times I've redrafted this apology over the last 11 years,
00:25how many times I've convinced myself it wasn't the right time,
00:28or that I'd be causing even more damage by giving it.
00:30Rousey continued,
00:32I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on Twitter.
00:35I didn't even believe it, but was so horrified at the truth
00:38that I was grasping for an alternative fiction to cling to instead.
00:42Rousey mentioned that she quickly realized her mistake and took the tweet down,
00:45so her social media post thankfully slipped under the media's radar.
00:49She was never asked about it, so she did not address it again, until now,
00:53in fear that speaking on it previously would increase the views of these kinds of conspiracy
00:58videos.
00:58She also shared that she initially wanted to include her apology in her memoir,
01:02Our Fight, which came out earlier this year.
01:04However, her publisher, quote,
01:06begged me to take it out, saying it would overshadow everything else and do more harm than
01:10good.
01:11The statement comes after a Reddit AMA on wrestling subreddit Squared Circle,
01:15in which various people asked Rousey about her Sandy Hook comments.
01:18She did not respond to questions related to the tragedy.
01:21Her since-deleted 2013 tweet featured a video which claimed that the families of Sandy Hook
01:26victims were paid actors.
01:28Per Bleacher Report, Rousey wrote that the clip was, quote,
01:31extremely interesting and a must-watch.
01:33At the time, she doubled down on sharing the video, tweeting,
01:36I just figure asking questions and doing research is more patriotic
01:39than blindly accepting what you're told.
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