Janay Rice: Ravens Told Me to Apologize, I Did It to Help Ray’s Career

In the second part of Matt Lauer’s interview, Janay Rice said that the Baltimore Ravens “suggested” she apologize at an awkward press conference last spring, one that looked even worse after video surfaced of Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancée unconscious at an Atlantic City casino.

“I was ready to do anything that was going to help the situation,” Rice said. “Help the way we looked in the media, help his image, help, obviously, his career.”

“They suggested [the apology], yes,” Rice said, adding that the Ravens had not given her the exact wording, but “they basically gave us a general script.”

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“That was frustrating for me, because obviously people took it as, you know, I’m taking light of what Ray did,” Rice said. “Not at all. I was basically — not doing what I was told, but at the same time, I didn’t think it was completely wrong for me to apologize, because at the end of the day, I got arrested too. So I did something wrong, too.”

She added that Rice apologized to her multiple times, even if it didn’t happen publicly. “I wouldn’t be sitting next to him if I wasn’t the first person to get an apology.”

Watch the clip below, via NBC:

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