Ronda Rousey issued an apology for sharing a conspiracy video about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over a decade ago.

The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion issued a lengthy statement on Twitter early Friday morning after a recent Reddit AMA featured a slew of questions about posting a YouTube video to the social media account 11 years ago, saying it was something she’s been wanting to do for quite some 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,” Rousey said to open her statement. “But eleven years ago I made the single most regrettable decision of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it to 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 as 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 being brought up again just so I could try to shake the label of ‘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’ve been cancelled, I would have deserved it. I still do. I apologize that this came 11 years too late, but to those effected 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 can not describe how thoroughly remorseful and ashamed I am of myself for contributing to it. I’ve regretted it every day of my life since and will continue to do so until the day I die.”

According to Bleacher Report, Rousey shared the video in January 2013 — a month after the December 2012 massacre at the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 people, including 20 students. It also took place a month before her historic UFC debut against Liz Carmouche in the main event of UFC 157 in February 2013.

Rousey did issue a short apology on Twitter days later saying she “never meant to insult or hurt anyone” with sharing the video.

After her loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December 2016, Rousey transitioned to the world of pro wrestling, eventually signing with WWE in 2018 and was part of the company until 2023.

Rousey ended her statement by sending a message to anybody who has fallen into similar situations — past and present.

“And to anyone else that’s fallen down the black hole of bullshit, it doesn’t make you edgy, or an independent thinker, you’re not doing your due dilligence entertaining every possibility by digesting these conspiracies,” Rousey said. “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.”