Eleven years after posting a conspiracy video about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, former WWE Superstar Ronda Rousey issued a public apology on Thursday. Rousey shared the conspiracy video on social media back in 2013, calling it “interesting” and must-watch.
In the apology, Rousey said reposting the video was the “single most regrettable decision” of her life. She also said that she has wanted to apologize but, until now she always had convinced herself that it was not the right time.
“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 eleven years ago I made the single most regrettable decision of my life,” she wrote. “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.”
According to F4WOnline, Rousey was scheduled to take part in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit’s Squared Circle community earlier this week, but it never took place after the Q&A session became flooded with questions asking if Rousey still believed the mass shooting was staged.