Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey has apologised for sharing a conspiracy video about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.
Eleven years ago then UFC champion Rousey posted a YouTube video on Twitter that questioned what happened.
Twenty students and six staff members were killed in the shooting on 14 December 2012.
During a recent AMA (ask me anything) on social media site Reddit, Rousey, 37, was flooded with questions about her past comments.
In a statement posed on X on Friday morning, Rousey said it was ” the single most regrettable decision” of her life and that she had planned to include an apology in her recent memoir before her publishers asked her to take it out.
“Honestly I deserve to be hated, labelled, detested, resented and worse for it,” Rousey said.
“I deserve to lose out on every opportunity, I should have been cancelled, I would have deserved it. I still do.
“I apologise 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.
“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.”
Rousey released the second part of her memoir ‘Our Fight’ earlier this year and is currently promoting the release of her first graphic novel.
The former WWE star is the most followed female athlete on Instagram with 17.5m followers.
Rousey added: “I’ve regretted it every day of my life since and will continue to do so until the day I die.
“It doesn’t make you edgy, or an independent thinker, you’re not doing your due diligence entertaining every possibility by digesting these conspiracies.
“They will only make you feel powerless, afraid, miserable and isolated. You’re doing nothing but hurting others and yourself.
“Regardless of how many bridges you’ve burned over it, stop digging yourself a deeper hole, don’t get wrapped up in the sunk cost fallacy, no matter how long you’ve gone down the wrong road, you should still turn back.”
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