Ronda Rousey Following Her Loss to Holly Holm: 'I Was Thinking of Killing Myself'
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MMA fighter Ronda Rousey—out promoting her new Sports Illustrated cover—stopped by Ellen this afternoon to talk about her devastating loss to Holly Holm in November. It was a tearful conversation, during which Rousey explained just how emotionally (and physically) broken she felt in the immediate aftermath of the fight.
“In the medical room [after the match] and I was like down in the corner and I was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’ And I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself,” she told Ellen DeGeneres through tears. “I’m like, ‘I’m nothing. What do I do anymore? No one gives a shit about me anymore without this.’”
But then: “I looked up and I saw my man, Travis [Browne], standing there, and I looked up at him, and I was like, ‘I need to have his babies. I need to stay alive.’ Really that was it.”