Dana White is opening up in regards to the bodily altercation he had along with his spouse on New 12 months’s Eve in 2022 and the way it impacted his kids probably the most.
On the time, video captured the UFC CEO slapping a girl within the face (he later confirmed it was his spouse Anne White) throughout a heated argument at a bar in Mexico. After the incident made headlines, he launched a assertion, saying there have been no excuses for his actions, including, “There’s by no means, ever an excuse for a man to place his fingers on a girl.”
Greater than a yr later, White made an look on a current episode of the Membership Shay Shay podcast, the place host Shannon Sharpe requested him how he was capable of get via that incident as a result of “that needed to be the hardest time that you just had ever gone via in your life.”
He rapidly responded, “It wasn’t. COVID was. Yeah, COVID was method harder than that.”
“It wasn’t about getting via it publicly. It was about getting via it personally with my children,” White continued. “Me and my spouse, we’re tremendous. … The children had by no means seen that earlier than. It was on the world stage, we embarrassed them, you recognize. And no children wish to see that shit along with your dad and mom.”
He defined that the scenario had nothing to do with anybody else besides his household and that these near him know his true character.
“Everyone else can go fuck themselves, OK. It had nothing to do with them. It was about my household. That’s what’s essential,” White stated. “The individuals who know me and know her [his wife], they know us and we’re tremendous. It was my children. That was one thing private between me and my household.”
“Individuals nonetheless speak about it and I might have an opinion too. I might have an opinion seeing that, you recognize what I imply,” the businessman added. “If that occurred there on New 12 months’s Eve, mainly on stage at a membership in Mexico, that in all probability isn’t the primary rodeo, you recognize what I imply. I might say the identical factor however I do know precisely who I’m, my children know who I’m, my circle of those that I give a shit about know who I’m and that’s what mattered to me.”
In his assertion following the altercation, White famous that there was “quite a lot of alcohol” concerned within the incident and that it had “by no means occurred earlier than.”