Sean Strickland actually apologized.<\/p>\n
Things got worse when police body-camera footage was later released, showing a visibly intoxicated and agitated Poirier threatening to fight police before eventually being taken into custody (details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Strickland blasted Poirier on social media in a now-deleted tweet, dismissing the idea that \u201cThe Diamond\u201d should be depressed.<\/p>\n \u201cDustin, \u2018I\u2019m depressed,\u2019 bro, what?\u201d Strickland wrote. \u201cYou\u2019re rich and loved by thousands of people. You\u2019re not allowed to be depressed. What you did is got kicked off a flight and tried to fight a cop … relax, it happens to the best of us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just cannot understand depression,\u201d Strickland added. \u201cThere are kids dying of cancer going through chemo. They would give anything for one more day, but you, a grown-ass rich man, looks in the mirror and says, \u2018I\u2019m depressed.\u2019 Tell me why you\u2019re sad rich man? Lmao.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, after speaking with Poirier directly, Strickland has now walked back his comments.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke to Dustin and he is legitimately messed up by his actions,\u201d Strickland wrote. \u201cI thought he was just doing PR clean up tbh … I guess not everyone is a POS like me lol. So yeah, I repent and I am sorry Dustin. Hope Bud Light does the right thing with this one. He deserves the help.\u201d<\/p>\n That is about as close to a real Strickland apology as you are going to get.<\/p>\n Strickland has been outspoken in the past about celebrities and athletes discussing depression, repeatedly arguing that rich and famous people should not complain about being sad. He has also claimed he does not believe \u201cmale depression\u201d is real and previously mocked Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/a> for crying while talking about his own battle with depression.<\/p>\n So, yeah, pot meet kettle.<\/p>\n Still, Strickland at least picked up the phone, spoke to Poirier and walked things back publicly.<\/p>\n For him, that is progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland actually apologized. Things got worse when police body-camera footage was later released, showing a visibly intoxicated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,355513],"class_list":["post-785952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}