Former MMA fighter Ronda Rousey has apologized for sharing the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory years ago.

Former mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey has apologized for sharing the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory 11 years ago on X, then Twitter, saying, “I have regretted it every day of my life since.”

The 37-year-old Californian professional wrestler shared Long statement US Rep. Kathleen Bernie Sanders said late Thursday night (Friday morning EST) that she has long wanted to apologize in the years since she shared a controversial conspiracy theory, and now she’s saying all.

“I apologize that this is 11 years late, but to those affected by the Sandy Hook massacre, from the bottom of my heart and soul, I am so sorry for the hurt I caused,” she wrote. “I cannot even begin to imagine the pain you have endured and words cannot express how remorseful and ashamed I am of myself for contributing to it.”

Rousey opened her apology by saying, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rehashed this apology over the past 11 years.” She revealed that she had been struggling internally over the timing of the apology and feared she might “cause more harm by offering it.”

It all started with what she called “the most regrettable decision of my life” — “I watched the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory video and re-tweeted it,” Rousey wrote.

She shared a YouTube video propagating the conspiracy in January 2013, according to Stands Report —Just a month after the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff members were killed. “Very interesting, must watch,” she captioned the post. But the tweet was met with outrage and she deleted it shortly after.

“I didn’t even believe it, but I was so horrified by the truth that I was looking for an alternative narrative to cling to,” Rousey wrote in her apology. “I quickly realized my mistake and deleted it, but the damage was already done.”

Ronda Rousey said that although she immediately regretted what she did, she was afraid to speak about it.

“By some miracle “It seemed to fly under the media radar, and no one asked me about it, so I never spoke about it again, fearing that drawing attention to it might have the opposite effect intended — it might lead to more views of conspiracy theory videos and, selfishly, tell more people that I was ignorant, self-obsessed and tone-deaf enough to share a video in the first place,” she said.

She said she had drafted an apology to include in her latest memoir, but “my publisher begged me to put it out, “To say that would overshadow everything else and cause more harm than good.”

“So I convinced myself that apologizing would only reopen the wound for no other reason than my own selfish attempt to make myself feel better, that I would hurt those suffering more and possibly lead more people into the black hole of conspiracy theories*** “By bringing this up again I can try to get rid of the label of me as a conspiracy theorist in the Sandy Hook case,” she explained.

“But honestly, I deserved to be hated, labeled, despised, resented and worse. I deserved to lose every opportunity, I should have been cancelled, I would have deserved it. And I still do,” she continued.

She said she would regret the decision to share the video “until the day I die.”

Ronda Rousey concluded her apology by calling out others who have fallen for conspiracy theories, warning that believing in such ideas does not make a person an “independent thinker.”

“They will only make you feel helpless, afraid, miserable and isolated. You are only hurting others and yourself,” she warned. “No matter how long you have been on the wrong path, you must get back on the right path.”

Shortly after the devastating massacre at Sandy Hook—which at the time was the second deadliest mass shooting in the United States after 2007 Virginia Tech shooting Conspiracy theories have spread about the shooting.

The Sandy Hook conspiracy theory is a favorite of far-right circles, often promoted by InfoWars host Alex Jones, who called the school shooting a hoax. He was sued by family members of the Sandy Hook victims, and was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to Sandy Hook parents.