On Nov. 14, 2015, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey’s world came crashing down around her. When she woke up, she realized her life would never be the same. In the moments prior, the former women’s bantamweight champion was knocked out by a vicious head kick and several hammerfists to the face at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. The beating came via current women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, who not only stripped Rousey of her belt but everything she had come to believe she was.
Rousey, who appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, bore her soul in an emotional interview with the talk show host.
"Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was in the corner and I was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?'" Rousey said as tears began to well in her eyes. “I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing. What do I do anymore? And no one gives a s--- about me anymore without this.'"
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She could have kept her internal struggles internal and disregarded making her emotions public. Maybe she got swept up in the moment of her first real public appearance since the loss to Holm in November. Nevertheless, Rousey’s comments sounded authentic, materializing from the the deepest crevices of her heart. Bearing a person’s rawest emotion on national television is no easy feat, but Rousey showed again why she has been one of the biggest role models for young girls and women across the …show more content…
If just one of them has contemplated suicide, and now feels the strength tell someone after hearing Rousey come forward, the impact of Rousey’s comments are resoundingly
Rousey, who appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, bore her soul in an emotional interview with the talk show host.
"Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was in the corner and I was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?'" Rousey said as tears began to well in her eyes. “I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing. What do I do anymore? And no one gives a s--- about me anymore without this.'"
Considering …show more content…
She could have kept her internal struggles internal and disregarded making her emotions public. Maybe she got swept up in the moment of her first real public appearance since the loss to Holm in November. Nevertheless, Rousey’s comments sounded authentic, materializing from the the deepest crevices of her heart. Bearing a person’s rawest emotion on national television is no easy feat, but Rousey showed again why she has been one of the biggest role models for young girls and women across the …show more content…
If just one of them has contemplated suicide, and now feels the strength tell someone after hearing Rousey come forward, the impact of Rousey’s comments are resoundingly