Things got pretty raw and emotional when UFC fighter Ronda Rousey appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show on Feb. 16 and admitted that she actually contemplated suicide after losing to Holly Holm last year.
Rousey very candidly spoke about her low point after she lost the fight this past November.
“Honestly, my thought I was like, in the medical room and I was down in the corner. I was sitting in the corner like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’” Rousey revealed. “And I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself in that exact second.”
Her honest admission and considering that her father killed himself when she was a child, had many in the sports world reacting including her opponent who won that evening.
MMA Weekly noted that Holm’s believes Rousey will be even stronger now than before the loss.
“I don’t want to say that I’m glad that she felt that way and I don’t want to say, ‘Oh I’m so sorry.’ It’s something I think that you have to dig through on your own,” she said. “In the long run, she’ll be stronger mentally from it.”
Former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson also weighed in saying that he thinks at that particular time Rousey was just in a bad place.
It was a “moment in time,” he said and added that he himself also had some “bad” thoughts after such a crushing loss.
Former UFC champ Brock Lesnar‘s offered his advice to Rousey saying, “You have to learn how to lose before you can actually win.”
UFC president Dana White, who is close with Rousey, said that she is in a “great place” now and no longer has the thoughts she did that one night.