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Professional wrestler and former WWE star Ronda Rousey uploaded an apology on her official X (formerly Twitter) account for the Sandy Hook controversy. According to US Weekly, this happened after a recent Reddit AMA went viral. People swamped the said AMA on the pro wrestling subreddit r/SquaredCircle with questions concerning the Sandy Hook controversy video.
Rousey’s apology post on Friday, August 23, comes more than a decade after she shared a conspiracy video about the tragic Sandy Hook mass shooting. The incident occurred on December 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in a Connecticut elementary school. Twenty of these victims were children.
Ronda Rousey’s apology says she ‘didn’t believe’ Sandy Hook conspiracy video
In her apology, Ronda Rousey explained, “How many times I’ve redrafted this apology over the last 11 years.” She added, “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.” The 37-year-old wrestler made the statement via X referring to the Sandy Hook controversy post she made in January 2013.
Rousey further wrote in the apology concerning the controversy, “But eleven years ago I made the single most regrettable decision of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on Twitter.” She claimed, “I didn’t believe it, but was so horrified at the truth that I was grasping for an alternative fiction to cling to instead.” Rousey realized her mistake, pointing out that she “took it down,” but it was too late by then. Luckily for her, it “slipped under the media’s radar,” and so she “never spoke of it again.”
Ronda Rousey noted that the recent apology was not her first attempt at apologizing for her past actions. Rousey stated that she intended to include an apology in her latest memoir, but the publisher was against it. Additionally, she claimed that by bringing up the subject, she did not want it to resurface as it would “hurt those suffering even more.” The pro-wrestler added that she likely deserves all the hate, labels, and the worst, among other things.
Ronda Rousey’s apology further noted “that this came 11 years too late” since she first made the controversial post. Directed to “those affected by the Sandy Hook massacre, she apologized “from the bottom of my heart and depth of my soul.” The former WWE women’s champion wrote, “I am so so sorry for the hurt I caused.” She then expressed how “remorseful and ashamed I am of myself for contributing to it.”
