Janay Rice is supporting Ray Rice after the elevator footage of him knocking her out on Feb. 15, 2014 at an Atlantic City casino was released. And as expected, Twitter erupted! Many suspected Janay would ultimately use this as an opportunity for help, but the new wife did otherwise. This morning, she took to her private Instagram account to describe her grievances and disgust for media releasing the video.
“I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I’m mourning the death of my closest friend,” she wrote. “But to have to accept the fact that it’s reality is a nightmare in itself.”
Janay then expressed her embarrassment for her marriage with the former running back who was terminated by the Baltimore Ravens yesterday. The statement left many critics describing her statement as “typical” for battered women.
The original video, released by Revel Hotel and Casino, where the assault occurred in an elevator, only showed Ray dragging his unconscious fiancée out of the elevator, but when the second video was released by TMZ earlier this week, the NFL took extraordinary measures to save face from the PR nightmare.
“THIS IS OUR LIFE!,” Janay wrote. “What don’t you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you’ve succeeded on so many levels,” she vented. “We will continue to grow and show the world what real love is.”
Last month, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a two-game suspension as punishment for Ray’s transgression, but the uproar fizzled out after the couple got married. According to Fox Sports, the NFL claimed not to have seen the “disgusting” video and that the blame should be on Atlantic County Prosecutor James McClain.
Ray also issued an Instagram post quoting Isaiah 54:17, “No weapon formed against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you….”
We guess he skipped the part about the Golden Rule.