Ronda Rousey has issued a public apology for sharing a conspiracy theory about the Sandy Hook tragedy, some 11 years after the incident.
The former UFC and WWE star, 37, took part in a Reddit AMA earlier this week, where she faced backlash from users of the platform over her post controversial posts on X, formerly Twitter.
Rousey was accused of boosting the baseless claim that the Sandy Hook mass shooting, in which 20 children were killed and several others were left injured back in December 2012, was staged. The post in question was shared in January 2013.
Taking to X on Friday, the erstwhile MMA fighter has now issued a lengthy apology for her actions, writing: "I can't say how many times I've redrafted this apology over the last 11 years. How many times I've convinced myself it wasn't the right time or that I'd be causing even more damage by giving it.
"But 11 years ago I made the single most regrettable decision of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on twitter. I didn't even believe it, but was so horrified at the truth that I was grasping for an alternative fiction to cling to instead. I quickly realized my mistake and took it down, but the damage was done. By some miracle it seemingly slipped under the media's radar, I was never asked about it so I never spoke of it again, afraid that calling attention to it would have the opposite of the intended effect – it could increase the views of those conspiracy videos, and selfishly, inform even more people I was ignorant, self absorbed, and tone deaf enough to share one in the first place.
"I drafted a thousandth apology to include in my last memoir, but my publisher 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, that I would hurt those suffering even more and possibly lead more people down the black hole of conspiracy bullshit by it being brought up again just so I could try to shake the label of being a 'Sandy Hook truther'.
"But honestly I deserve to be hated, labeled, detested, resented and worse for it. I deserve to lose out on every opportunity, I should have been canceled, I would have deserved it. I still do."
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